Naive Bayes From Scratch: A Spam Filter Built From Word Counts

Naive Bayes ran real spam filters for years, and it's the rare ML model whose "training" is just counting. No gradient descent, no iterations — count words, apply Bayes' rule, multiply. I built one from scratch and visualised exactly which words push a message toward spam. 📨 Interactive demo (type a message): https://dev48v.infy.uk/ml/day6-naive-bayes.html This is Day 6 of MachineLearningFromZero — algorithms from scratch, no scikit-learn. 1. Bag of words — order doesn't matter Na...