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by est 3108 days ago
I remember there was a joke that in google's code base, there are more Bayesian cases than if...else...
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It was a quote in Joel Spolsky's blog.

> A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement,” he said

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/10/17/news-121/