Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:37:22 04/29/00
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On April 29, 2000 at 12:22:35, David Eppstein wrote: >On April 29, 2000 at 09:47:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>There is one small problem here, but it is very serious. You can't really >>afford to turn a module on or off. Doing so causes discontinuities in the >>evaluation and can cause really bizarre moves to be played. > >If the added discontinuity happens at a point where the eval is discontinuous >anyway (as in Bruce's program, it only happens when the material changes) maybe >the edge effects are not so severe? They are severe at times. That is the problem. It is better to smoothly transition things in and out, rather than using a crowbar to pry them out when they suddenly don't apply any more...
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