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9 August 2005 / #blog 
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Can a spam filter play chess?

A really interesting question. Can a Spam Filter play a game of chess? Matthias might be interested to try this at his job ;-)

The tale of the spam filter that learns to play chess is very interesting. It shows, that seemingly simple algorithms can produce interesting results.

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    Jens-Christian Fischer

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    9 August 2005 / #blog 

    sqlite3 on Mac OS X -- trials and tribulations

    For an upcoming Rails project, the plan is to use the sqlite database. On Windows, the whole process of getting this installed was easy. Download the DLL, do a gem install sqlite3& and be done. Not so on OS X, where I plan to develop. sqlite3 is installed by default, but trying to install the gem, I get a complaint about a missing sqlite.h file. Fair enough, it’s probably not there. So I download the tarball and do the “./configure && make && make install” dance. ...

    Jens-Christian Fischer
    8 August 2005 / #blog 

    Rank 99

    Bitflux has compiled the Top100 list of swiss blogs. This humble blogs comes in at rank 99 (only a couple of ranks behind my blogging friend tanja) Interestingly, the Muga-Blog, one of the top business blogs in Switzerland doesn’t make the list. Is the Technorati ranking reliable? And when will our invisible business blog make the ranks? Technorati Tags: blog, switzerland, puppy

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