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Subject: Re: How convincing is convincing?

Author: George Sobala

Date: 03:17:08 01/31/04

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>
>Actually the problem with everybody posting their results isn't statistical
>significance. As you pointed out, there would be no problem accepting a
>certified twenty-game match for the world championship as absolutely valid. The
>problem is that everybody can run these programs on their machines and basically
>generate any result they see fit - usually it's enough to keep generating
>results until one of them is seen fit. If Christophe likes I am sure I could
>"show" with 95% certainty that Rybka is better than Tiger :-) That's why there
>are tournaments.
>
>Vas

You are absolutely right about this - people tend to post the "interesting"
results. Bias.

But many tournaments do not solve things either, as they tend to be too small
even for my more limited level of "convincing"!




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