Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:11:56 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 18:35:00, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On January 13, 2000 at 16:31:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>>>"For instance, if you were to remove the database, you can >>>>>have a computer ten times faster than it is today. Ten >>>>>times faster than Deep Blue, easily. If it couldn't >>>>>consult its opening book, my result would improve >>>>>immediately. I think most of the top twenty, thirty > >>Right. But I have re-read his statement several times, and the only >>interpretation I can make is that he thinks that by removing the opening >>book, it will speed the program up 10X. > >The other possible interpretation is quite obvious, if you just reorder the >sentences a little bit. IE: > >"If it couldn't consult its opening book, if you were to remove the database, >you can have a computer ten times faster than it is today, ten times faster than >DB, easily, [and] my result would improve immediately." > >The somewhat jumbled sentence order could be a result of any number of things. >Difficulty speaking English, or difficulty translating Russian, or an error >transcribing it, etc. etc. etc. > >-Tom Anand has absolutely _no_ problems with English. But that doesn't mean that whomever wrote the stuff down didn't screw it up. I suppose that is why such stuff isn't admissible in court? :)
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