Paul Graham

I recently came across Paul Grahams page for the first time ever. I was doing some reading up on Bayesian Filters and came across his essay on it. I read a bit, and thought to myself that while the style of writing was interesting, it seemed a bit odd that he wasn't allready using Bayesian analysis of his spam, since the technology was so well known.

It wasn't until I finished the essay that a colleague of mine told me that Paul was in fact the first person to apply Bayesian analyses to the spam problem, and the essay I had been reading was in fact the original story of how the method was invented.

So now I was naturally intrigued, and wanted to learn more about this obiously genius individual. Turns out the guy is not only a brilliant writer, but is also a nerd like myself.

Great stuff.