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Interesting, do people frequently use bayes' theorem in web programming? Ive only seen it it other programming contexts.



If you're interested, there are a whole host of fun and useful machine learning techniques that are actually not as hard to understand and apply as they sound. The best introductory book that I know of is Programming Collective Intelligence, which is surprisingly clear, if a little vague on the theory:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321

Naive Bayesian classifiers are just one of the more popular types; others include Support Vector Machines (SVMs), decision trees (and their relatives, random forests), and a bunch more. If you'd like to play around with some, Weka is good open source software for this:

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/


I have no idea...

That's how I'd solve this particular problem though. As I said in the parent I only have cursory experience in programming, and almost none in algorithms.




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