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When copy editors make things worse

"Besides getting more data, faster, we also now use much more sophisticated learning algorithms. For instance, algorithms based on logistic regression and that support vector machines can reduce by half the amount of spam that evades filtering, compared to Naive Bayes." (Emphasis added.) — Joshua Goodman, Gordon V. Cormack, and David Heckerman....