Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:56:33 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 17:30:14, robert michelena wrote: >Doesnt fly. > >Your analogy of racing cars is not valid. A more logical analogy would be the >example a few years back of scientists who claimed they could produce cold >fusion, under laboratory conditions. Most scientist who tried to replicate the >experiments failed. Several years later, even though the overwhelming majority >of scientists cannot replicate the cold fusion results, there are some who still >defend the validity of those who claimed they could do so. Even though the only >body in the solar system which can do this is the sun. That being a fact of >science, there were still does who believed what some people said. > >The same analogy holds true, with respect to computer programs. If you want to >continue believing that a program which can beat Kasparov, or draw Karpov (Fritz >and Shredder) can lose to non-gms on an occasional basis, while playing on their >strongest settings, then by all means, continue to do so. > >However, like the lonely scientist who stated that the world is indeed round, >and not square, as all those around him cried, I will continue to state what I >consider to be a fundamental truth: non grandmasters cannot beat commercial >programs at their strongest settings. > >The world is round. last time I looked in my physics book, the sun was _not_ a "cold fusion" engine by any measure. Intense heat. Intense gravitational field strength.
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