Journalists are great. The difference between an open proxy and an open relay has completely eluded this guy. Ah well. It's kinda fun to see these other large companies disagree with us - and I know our data on this is right.
Yesterday I gave a presentation to our new development starters about our anti-spam code. And I completely forgot the equations for Bayes' Theorem. ARGH! I wish I didn't have a FIFO brain!
I'm putting it here now to remind myself:
P(x|y) = P(y|x)P(x)
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P(y)
Now if I get stuck again I can find my journal ;-)
I think I suitably showed myself up, when asked to help out on the testing talk. I was asked to write a quick few lines of code to detect the numbers between 2 and 5. Knowing he was trying to trip me up, halfway through I distracted myself by asking the return codes he wanted, then carried on with:
my $input = shift;
return 1 if($input >= 2 || $input <= 5);
return 0;
Having sat down I suddenly spotted the humongous gaff. Making many apologies for being an idiot I hastily replaced || with &&.
I think forgetting Bayes' theorem is acceptable.