Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:37:59 08/09/00
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On August 08, 2000 at 13:06:34, Dan Andersson wrote: >You should look up the word bulverism in a dictionary, you did it again. BTW >when discussing a search algorithm you do a lot better analyzing its average >case than its extreme case. I really dont know if MTD is better than PVS, but I >believe it cannot be all that much worse. You better accept it, I use the >Satanic-Algorithm (MTD) and not the Cuddly-Good (PVS-NS) way. For the non C. S. Lewis fans (I don't think bulverism is a real word): "C.S Lewis warned against the dangers of Bulverism, the ad hominem argument taken to the final extreme. There is no need to refute someone's position. Just come up with a plausible explanation of how that opinion might have formed, and the job is done."
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