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Subject: Re: CCT4 Tao/Quark

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 14:17:14 01/27/02

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On January 27, 2002 at 16:15:11, Frank Phillips wrote:

>All I am saying is that if I had no other data, I would use the data to hand as
>the basis of my decision,even in the face of uncertainty - and even though I
>recognised that uncertainty and even though I recognised I might be wrong.

Okay, lets nok make a big deal out of this, its just that one can't really draw
any conclusions from only 10 games.

>(So, if A beat B I would chose A even though it could be merely the result of
>randomness.  But I would not be claiming A was better than B excpet within a
>given probability determined by the size of the data set to hand.)

I suppose if A gets 10 out of 10, it is _probably_ not the weakest engine ;)

-S.



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