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Subject: Re: Upon scientific truth - the nature of information

Author: ShaktiFire

Date: 16:35:34 07/15/00

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On July 15, 2000 at 18:32:52, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On July 15, 2000 at 18:22:59, Ralf Elvsén wrote:
>
>>These are pretty harsh words, especially since I think Uri has a point.
>>Even if it is not correct I wouldn't call it "nonsense" or "truth distortion".
>>These judgements should be saved for more clear cases, and there has
>>certainly been some on this board in the past...
>
>No, he doesn't have a point, since you can't determine GM strength by gathering
>the results of several programs, reach GM strength within the bounds of
>uncertainty and then conclude that one of the programs are GM strength. Because
>you already know that none of programs alone are of GM strength with certainty
>due to a large ELO uncertainty, otherwise it wouldn't be necessary to add them
>together. So nonsense is the appropriate word, even though truth distortion was
>unnecessary harsh.
>
>Best wishes...
>Mogens

Can we not make a category.  Say, "commercial programs running on 500 Mhz or
higher", take performance data, for that class, and then do statisical analyses
that allow to make statements about that class.



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