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Subject: Re: Temporal Difference

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:35:32 01/07/01

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On January 06, 2001 at 17:17:06, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>
>One additional advantage is that when learning from losses only, you don't have
>to deal with blunders that distort learning. The computer makes no (tactical)
>blunders. And a blundering opponent will not win against a computer. This (I
>suspect) increases the probality that IF it learns something, it will be
>something useful.

One of the papers I have read (I think the KnightCap one) had
a comparisaion with SAL, and the authors concluded that only
learning from losses caused the eval function to grade every
position as a loss.

You're not seeing that effect?

--
GCP



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