Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:32:07 05/01/00
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On May 01, 2000 at 00:53:28, Andrew Dados wrote: >On April 30, 2000 at 22:58:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 30, 2000 at 22:38:10, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On April 30, 2000 at 19:04:19, Chris Taylor wrote: >>> >>>>And now with some text in it? >>>> >>>>I restart both computers after each match? A re-boot. Do not ask me why? >>>>Mayhap, to clear settings?? >>>> >>>>Chris Taylor >>> >>> >>>But is it enough? I have heard that Crafty learns by position. That is it is >>>able to remember the positions of a lost game and to avoid playing again the >>>moves that go into these positions. >>> >>>In this case, replaying a match with the same time controls gives an advantage >>>to Crafty. >>> >>>I don't know if Fritz has a similar system. >>> >>>In the case of learning by position, it should be necessary to erase the "learn" >>>file when one wants to reproduce a match... >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >> >>Why is that so. When I play multiple matches against a human, no one asks to >>hypotize me to clear my memory. Do we now suddenly declare that _all_ learning >>functions are 'NFG' and should not be allowed? > >I thought purpose of Sarahs extensive testing was to find >score(time_of_game,pondering) dependency/trend/etc. Learning is cool, but skews >results and makes conclusions more vague. Other test of replaying nunn test at >same tc with learn file leftover (done several times) would be also nice... > >-Andrew- It isn't like the Nunn test itself doesn't skew results, remember. IE the opening book of the engine is eliminated, which means all the book learning of the engine is eliminated. Now other forms of learning are eliminated. This doesn't exactly sound like a "useful test". IE would it be interesting to take two automobiles, remove one spark plug from each, drain the transmission on both cars... (wait, one car doesn't have a transmission, just a direct drive, oh well, drain the other) and so forth. I find that _really_ interesting to watch, and _really_ informative. And about as useful as taking the two PCs to your front porch, throwing them as far as you can, and declaring the one that went the farthest "the winner".
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