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Subject: Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf.

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 15:19:57 05/25/00

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On May 25, 2000 at 15:55:03, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>>Sounds to me like you should test this for the same reason
>>that you did the "X <=> X+1" test.
>
>Sounds to me that you still do not accept or understand the
>qualitative difference between the cases ...
>
>=Ernst=

I'm not even suggesting that the cases are remotely similar.

I'm simply continuing the point of this thread, namely, you noticed that as
depth increases, the number of draws increases and the number of wins decreases.
Your conclusion is that this behavior is due to unequal depths. But wouldn't it
be interesting if the behavior also occurred with equal depths?

Here's the problem in my mind:
You didn't believe that "X <=> X+1" would vary with depth, so you did an
experiment and wrote a paper.
You don't believe that "X <=> X" varies with depth, so you are dimissing the
possibility with curt remarks and implications that I don't understand the
problem.

-Tom



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