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Subject: Re: Junior's long lines: more data about this....

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 22:34:35 12/28/97

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On December 28, 1997 at 23:38:12, Don Dailey wrote:

>I did a really interesting study once several years ago.  I took
>a small problem set and adjusted the weights to predict the Swedish
>ratings of several programs.  You can use various methods to do
>this, I used a genetic algorithm.  I was able to come up with a
>formula which was very accurate, within about 10 points for ANY
>program that was involved in the test.

If you produced a formula that would accurately predict the Elo of 75%
of the known programs, would it accurately predict the Elo of the
remaining 25% without tweaking it?

bruce

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