Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:41:55 11/08/00
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On November 08, 2000 at 15:59:32, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I don't know a lot about paradigms, and I haven't read Kuhn's book. In college, we were tought about kuhn in philosophy here at school, but long time ago :-)) >my libertarian roommate Jerry read it, and that was good enough for me. That >guy preferred Art Garfunkel to Paul Simon, avoid avoid avoid. :-)))) >New paradigms would tend to get adopted quickly in computer chess, since it is >usually easy to provide evidence that something works. Particularly strong >evidence would be a program that wins. :-))) >There have been a couple of times where people jumped on a specific bandwagon. >People didn't know that full-wdith search could make a strong program until >Slate and Atkins did it, and after that point it became typical to write >full-width programs. >There was another shift when Donninger published the null-move article. Prior >to that, null move was underappreciated, and after that it became the norm. tell this richard lang. maybe it helps :-)) >Other programs have had success with techniques that weren't thought to be >useful, for instance self-teaching. This hasn't started a wave of self-learning >programs yet, but there have been some interesting articles and some interesting >attempts. >We will probably see more interest in speculative evaluation since Christophe's >speculative program has been a success. yep. >All the programs that I know of now are built on a brute-force framework, with >selective extension and selective pruning. If anyone can make a strong program >that doesn't use these mechanisms, that will cause the most major shift we've >seen so far. >bruce why should somebody try when bob says: it does not work. maybe all we need is to ask him in forward, and he can tell us if the approach makes sense. this could spare lots of time and work. ok - lets get serious. i am sure you will buy the program, and then you can make yourself a picture and we can talk again. ok ? in the meantime, where is my art garfunkel cd ?! :-)))
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