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Subject: Re: Anand comment about Deep Blue

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:35:44 01/13/00

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On January 13, 2000 at 23:15:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>But allowing him to play every "personality" in a program that has roughly
>8,000 (Hsu's number) tunable evaluation parameters would take a _long_ time.
>(Hint:  evaluate 8000! [factorial])  How many games per personality would be
>required? (then think about that number * 8000!).

It might be possible to do a non-linear optimization.  If the functions are
linear, even simplex might be used.  It would certainly take a lot of games to
make decisions that are accurate, though.




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