Harry Fuecks wrote in to tell me this morning about a new article over on the IBM Developer's site about probability models and PHP.

In this new piece by Paul Meagher, he works to get PHP together with probability distributions build effective probability models. They start off talking about a popular application dealing with probablility (SpamBayes) and computing the probability that an email is spam. They branch off of this example and show you the thought behind creating probability models and showing some forumlas to follow in the creation of your own applications. They give a bit of PHP code to create "normal density values" as well as a Chi Square script to determine the accuracy of mt_rand(), but overall, this article is *very* high level.

Most of this piece flies right over my head, but that doesn't mean it's not a facinating read. There's this whole untouched area of PHP's abilities that most people are missing, and it's wonderful to see that there are some developers out there that have the time and know-how to give amazing creations like this new life...