Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 00:24:16 10/13/97
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On October 12, 1997 at 18:30:22, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >The idea is catchy, of course, but remenber me t hat story told by >argentinian writter Ernesto Sábato of a man of science trying to explain >relativity theory to a layman., After h e finished, the man said "sorry, >I did not understand a word", so the science man talked about trains, >people shooting with pistols, watches and so on and at the end the >layman said "well, forgive me, but I still does not undestand nothing", >so the scientific added more trains, bycicles running , more shoots, a >lot of watches until the man said "Wooo, I finally undestand the theory >of relativity", but then he scientific said, "Yes, but it is not anymore >the theory of relativity". The same for a Deep Blue running in a PC. End >of the story. Well, Baby Blue with one chess processor would still be capable of analysing 1-2 million positions per second, which is 5-10 times as fast as the current fastest chess program for the PC, and with a fuller (though not yet proven to be better) evaluation. While I would in no wise expect Deep Blue in a desktop, I would still be fascinated by Baby Blue's analysis. If I could get a Son of DB it would do 10 million nps, and this would be something. It may not be the Theory of Relativity, but relative to PC programs of today, it will be relatively fast. I will still sign the check at nearly 300000 kps. kp
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