Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 10:02:43 12/30/05
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Thanks for the nice and insightful report! Zappa wrote: > ... People have wondered for months now why Fruit is so > strong. My opinion is that he simply has so few parameters > to tune that he can get them exactly right :) One comment on this: You should not see this as a joke. It is one of the best arts to find the right SMALL set of parameters and to tune them. Some 12 years ago I had a technical article on this ("On telescoping linear evaluation functions") in the ICCA Journal (now ICGA Jornal), Vol 16 (June 1993), pp. 91-94, describing a theorem (of existence) which says that in case of linear evaluation functions with lots of terms there is always a small subset of the terms such that this set with the right parameters is almost as good as the full evaluation function. Ingo Althofer. PS: In motor biking Valentino Rossi is the superstar, for several years already. One of the secrets of his success is that he does not try to tune everything at his engine - but concentrates on the right handful of parameters.
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