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Subject: Re: Some thougths about statistics

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:32:26 02/24/00

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On February 24, 2000 at 16:47:23, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On February 24, 2000 at 15:31:55, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 24, 2000 at 15:15:54, blass uri wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>If the ssdf rating of shredder2 should be zero then there is a big problem
>>>because the rating is based on the assumption that shredder2 has rating close to
>>>2500.
>>
>>After an infinite number of games against programs that learn, the ELO would be
>>zero
>
>	Why zero? According to my calculations, if a program loses all but a finite
>number of an infinite sample, its rating should be minus infinity.

Sorry.  I just checked out of Hilbert's hotel, and I can't remember which room I
left my bags in.
;-)



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