Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 21:12:28 07/31/02
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Another drawback... I think that if there were easier to understand materials on the subject it might be more popular. I tried reading some of those papers written by the KnightCap guys, and it was crystal clear right up until page 2 when they started in with predicate logic. There was a reason I chose to forget predicate logic the moment I finished my final exam in that class, and I don't plan on learning it again. To me it is very counter-intuitive to express things that way when you could just say, "white chooses a legal move" instead of "for all actions A for the player to move X, there exists one a such that a is a subset of A and it is not equal to any other subset of A...blah, blah, and BLAH!" (expressed in Greek symbols of course). If someone explains the concepts in a more easy to understand format, I think there would be more people experimenting with it and using it. The same goes not only for TDLeaf, but for any other academic paper. It sounds like they're using all of those fancy looking logic symbols just so it looks like they know what they're talking about :) If you know of any easier to understand resources for it, I'd love to read them. Websites, papers, books, whatever. As long as it's not gibberish to the average person. Russell
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