Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 10:09:34 04/14/05
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On April 14, 2005 at 12:30:15, pavel wrote: >One thing about YACE learning feature that I dislike is that it doesn't >overwrite the same position when importing it. It practically does, although it still needs the space in the positional learning file. (Book learning is different, in this regards, and the "space" - if any, is only used once). >For instance my YACE learnpos.bin has "28169" positions. But all of them are not >unique position. If I try to import 30 positions from learnpos.yac 5 times it >will add 150 new positions, so it will add the same positions 5 times. I don't >know if it does the same thing during a game. It will do the same. >If it learns from a position it >reached and learned before, does it overwrite it with a new score or update it >with a new score? Only the last instance will count. So - besides the wasted space on disk - it is the same as if the instances would be overwritten. It actually overwrites them, when it loads the positions into RAM. Regards, Dieter
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