I did not quite expect to hear about machine learning on this cast! I do work in the analytics field so suddenly hearing someone on Amazon ML made me suddenly pay a lot more close attention. It sounds like you're training a simple classification algorithm! Hopefully someone will be on the next pod who can answer my questions about the methodology in place.
I'm assuming you're doing this fully automated while providing trueness/falsehood to each kind of spam/non-spam and then letting it do its thing. But there's quite a few methods one can employ to train using this kind of data set, so I'm curious about which exact algorithm you're using? Are you using SageMaker or some other marketplace algorithm, or even your own? I would love to hear some in-depth chatter about what's making that there classifier tick, though I fully understand if you don't want to potentially teach spammers how to avoid your system.
Speaking of analytics, is there a chance you could get someone on the pod from that side of the site? I realise it's not as "dev" as writing PHP or making a REST API or defining a design for a CMS, but it's still really cool stuff if there's someone in the back there who does cool stuff in Python or R or something like that who informs decisions in the development and/or content production process.
Hey, I never post on this site, but this owns. I love war stories from developers, but most of the podcasts out there are pretentious ego bloats that just want to listen to their own voice and are so far removed from humble Dan Ryckert seems like a well balanced human. You guys just sound like you love to do this and that's what's fun to listen to. More of this!
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