Author: James Robertson
Date: 19:06:31 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 22:01:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 21:42:48, James B. Shearer wrote: >[snip] >> I agree with Robertson. I don't see much evidence that Hsu has any >>extremely rare skills. > >Only person on earth ever to design a deep-blue chess machine capable of 200M >NPS (about 1000 times faster than the next best thing at the time). Only person on earth to be hired and provided with enough money to do it. James >Seems >pretty rare to me. Hitech and other efforts along those lines were not >competitive with Deep Blue. > >> It's not like many similar attempts with equivalent >>backing failed miserably. Also Hsu's project didn't match the projections in >>his 1990 Scientific American article. > >It did beat the best human player on earth, probably the best who ever was. I >know I was impressed.
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