Author: James Swafford
Date: 12:33:17 07/31/02
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On July 31, 2002 at 08:34:20, Will Singleton wrote: >On July 30, 2002 at 22:43:36, James Swafford wrote: > >> >>Hey everyone. I'm at an AAAI conference in Edmonton. It's ironic (to me) >>that it's been mentioned here recently that Edmonton is a hive of computer >>chess enthusiasts. I don't know if that's true (what's a "hive"? :-), but >>there are certainly a few... >> > >Sounds like a lot of fun. Did you do the robot lab? You can't help but checking out a bot competition or display of some kind.. they're all over the place! Some NASA guys gave a pretty good tutorial, and talked quite a bit about the role of robots (and automata) in space exploration. Neat stuff... (in a geeky kind of way of course!). > >I don't know about Schaeffer's commercial vs academia argument. First, no >research has shown that it's effective in chess. Second, how would he know what >the commercials are doing? Whatever it is, the commercials now dominate all the >research projects. > Uhm... Baxter et al. showed it has at least _some_ utility. The question is.. "how much"? I personally believe it is a huge untapped resource. Of course, it does no good to have super-tuned eval weights if you don't know what to put into the evaluator in the first place. That seems to be the big challenge now. You're right about commercials dominating. But why? :) -- James >Will
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