2 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

Naive Ben Meets Naive Bayes You likely do not know me personally. Before I dive into todays topic, I'd like to give you some context about "the Bubbles guy". I got my first computer (the "family computer") at age 13, around the year 2000. I needed to ask for permission before "going to the internet", because during internet time, nobody in the house could make phone calls. HTML was my perfect starter drug, because you could spend hours building stuff offline, and then just upload it, when internet was available. Nobody around me knew how to use computers, so I had to figure it all out by myself. I created all kinds of web stuff, "homepages" with animated gifs, guest books, chatted on IRC and ICQ. I was living in the small web, because there was no big web yet. I once even invented Street View, because I wanted to advertise for my small village in Eastern Germany. I took my bike, stood on a street and made a grainy picture in all 4 directions. Then I went 50 meters along the street and…

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