Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:58:24 03/06/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 22:51:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 05, 2001 at 20:59:05, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On March 05, 2001 at 20:41:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >>If you are trying to produce a reproducable experiment, then you don't change >>the parameters as you go. If you just want a fun contest, then do whatever you >>want. > >Tournaments are definitely _not_ reproducible. In any shape, form or >fashion... either human events, nor computer events where the authors >are present. By the same token, a sequence of 1000 coin flips won't be reproducable either. Any measurement with a degree of randomness will suffer from this problem (which is *truthfully* -- ALL of them). At any rate, if you are trying to *win* a contest, then you will try anything at your disposal. Certainly you can get some gains by being unpredictable (e.g. changing the openings or whatever). But if the experiment is planned to measure something and produce a number, then you should eliminate as many variables as possible.
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