Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 09:59:21 05/31/02
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On May 31, 2002 at 09:59:49, Sune Fischer wrote: >On May 31, 2002 at 09:43:17, Sune Fischer wrote: > >There is a physical analogy to this principle, this is how I think of the >problem. > >If you have a cup of water (small pool of players) and you connect it to a much >larger reservoir say the bath tup (large pool of players) and you create a good >surface connetion between the waters (high correlation in the form of a lot of >games), then the larger reservoir will dominate the temperature (the rating) and >the water in the cup will end up with largely the same temperature as in the >bathtup. > >Now if you have two very large reservoirs, like two large oceans and connect >them only through a small creek (like having 100 people from Europe play 100 >from Asia), it will be a small an effect and outside forces will dominate their >temperatures. They have airplanes now. It speeds things up a bit.
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