Re: These detection methods don't scale.
The problem boils down to one of true detection and false alarm rates
I'm amazed that so many Reg readers have time to post comments like this, given the hours y'all must devote to explaining the finer principles of egg-sucking to your grandmothers.
No one credible does machine-learning research without being well-versed in basic concepts like precision and recall rates. That's, like, week 2 of your Introduction to Machine Learning class.
Admittedly a more-sophisticated understanding of statistics is not universal among ML researchers and implementers; folks like Vincent Granville bang on about that incessantly, and they have a point. But that doesn't mean their work is automatically useless, as is trivially demonstrated by the fact that it's very often put to use. Google Translate, say, may be rubbish compared to human translators, but that hasn't stopped people from using it.
Even a 66% success rate is useful in some applications.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
