Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:43:28 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 18:38:15, Sune Fischer wrote: >On August 20, 2002 at 17:52:32, Andreas Guettinger wrote: > >>On August 20, 2002 at 17:19:26, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>>On August 20, 2002 at 15:43:22, Sune Fischer wrote: >>> >>>>>I have also done enough emotional damage to the author already I'm afraid and I >>>>>feel real bad about that, it was not my agenda in any way. >>> >>>On August 20, 2002 at 16:06:01, Tony Werten wrote: >>>> >>>>I'll second that. >>> >>>I'd be interested to know what your intentions were then... >>> >>>Russell >> >>Probably just not look right at it. When the author of the thesis provides >>significant statistical data by playing hundreds of games with different engine >>algorithms i can not imagine how somebody can earnestly say its a pice of junk >>copied from the internet. > >Well I wouldn't be able to pass if I turned that in as my masters project. Then you are in a different discipline, or I think your advisors are incompetent. >So if it isn't good enough to pass, then in my book it's junk, what else should >I call it? An excellent piece of literature. Wonderful reading. Well thought out and well orgainized explanations of how chess programs work would do for starters. >In a different light, as a tutorial for chess, it is a great assembly of >information, no argument there. > >Depends on how you look at it, it just doesn't meet the *standard* _I_ would >expect of a thesis (of course what my standard is must be rather irrelevant to >most people here). I am beginning to wonder if you have actually read it. >If _your_ standard is lower (or perhaps you simply have no idea what to expect >of a thesis, perhaps you were even thrilled you could understand it:), then it >doesn't have to be junk in your eyes, of course. > >>Science is about being able to use the theory in a >>practical model and then maybe come to new conclusions, although i think the >>conclusion part would be a bit arrogant for a graduating student. >>Anyway, I would sure look carefully a any new conclusions that are written in a >>masters thesis before I take it for granted. But I agree with most people here >>that the above thesis is quite interesting. >> >>Maybe some of us had a bit a bad day? > >Yes, most certainly ;) Can I get an 'Amen' from the congregation?
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