Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 15:37:11 08/22/02
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On August 22, 2002 at 18:19:17, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On August 22, 2002 at 10:04:37, Peter Hegger wrote: > >>On August 22, 2002 at 08:10:27, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>2. Hsu's creations _slaughtered_ the computer competition...ALL OF THEM! >> >>They did? Where are the game scores? I know that they claimed to have scored >>around 90% against other programs during testing, but no game scores exist for >>these games. >>Are we to simply take their word for it that these games actually happened? > ><snip> > >>Regards, >>Peter > >I talked to Hsu and asked him specifically about this. He said he did not save >the game scores. I listened to his answer while looking him in the eye and I >believed him. What do you base your assertion that he is lying on? I am inclined >to take a person's word without the personal interview, but in this case I had >that added benefit. I don't really care if DB would beat today's programs or >not, since it does not exist any longer, but I do not like people calling Hsu a >liar with no evidence. If you have some, please post it. > >kp You are right, such _name calling_ is wrong. But let me give you a very basic fact. In science it is a fundamental technique to keep exact documentation. Simply because without you have no evidence to publish. Now, we know that Feng Hsu is a scientist. Hence, it's allowed to ask why he didn't keep the game scores. I would say that the question is at least as valuable as your eye into eye contact. BTW what did you observe concretely? No need to answer, I wanted to lead the attention to the value of such evidence. I'm no way doubting your experience. But in science we do not follow such evidence - in general. NB this is independent of the status of the persons involved. Rolf Tueschen
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