Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:32:43 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 22:06:31, James Robertson wrote: >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. Why wasn't someone else hired and provided with enough money to do it? Why hasn't someone else been given the job since then? It's been 3 years. I really don't believe that Hsu's skills are so miniscule that just anyone could have done it or they would have. Why hasn't Hitachi in Japan come up with a better machine? If it were easy, they surely would have (or someone else with a desire for enormous publicity). I think the bar is set so high that everyone else is afraid even to try. IOW, if it isn't so tough to do it, and there is enourmous publicity and benefit for anyone who can accomplish it, why don't people do it? Perhaps they are simply unable.
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