Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:09:49 05/28/01
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On May 28, 2001 at 02:25:22, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 27, 2001 at 22:35:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 27, 2001 at 09:40:32, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On May 26, 2001 at 21:11:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>More data. >>>> >>>>summary: >>>> >>>>After 2 hours per position, crafty gets 8 of 14 right. >>>> >>>>after 6 hours per position it gets 9 of 14 right. >>>> >>>>that is still 2 behind DB Jr. and when you factor in the fact that DB2 is >>>>32x faster than DB Jr, DB2 would get 11 of 14 right in < 1 minute per position, >>>>which is 1/360 the time I need to get 9 of 14 right. >>>> >>>>I think the machine is amazing, _still_. >>>> >>>>This seems to be ample evidence of it. >>> >>>The shadows on the cave wall have always looked pretty interesting. >>> >>>bruce >> >> >>I don't follow. This thread was _started_ by a DB team member asking someone >>here about position 13. That doesn't seem like "shadows on the cave wall" to >>me... seems like very recent activity being reported directly by the source. > >I think that bruce means that games are the real things when test suites are >only the shadows. > >The interesting acticity is games of Deep Blue Junior against the top programs >of today and unfortunately we can get only the shadows. > >Uri With a bright enough light, and enough study, even the shadows reveal a lot of facts... IE if I know the distance from you to the wall, and from you to the light, I can exactly determine your height. And if you turn sideways for a sec, I can make a pretty good cut at determining your weight. That is better than "unknown"... I'm interested in anything I can find out about DB/DBjr...
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