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Subject: Re: DTS article robert hyatt - revealing his bad math

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:55:01 09/03/02

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On September 03, 2002 at 15:04:07, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 03, 2002 at 14:57:58, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>
>>"We talk about mass fraud here."
>>
>>Would you explain in laymen's terms what you are talking about and what the
>>purpose would be for Mr. Hyatt to be lying?  I'm sure many here aren't that
>>knowledgable about programming.
>
>I cannot speak for Bob, but i know that in science there is so much
>fraud with 'scientific results' that you have basically 3 choices
>  a) lie even harder
>  b) get an email box filled with hatemail being honest
>  c) modify the conditions of your test such that your outputs look
>     great but only very big experts see that it wasn't that good
>
>It is sad but true that with regard to computerchess most opt for either
>'a' or 'c'.


Vincent, speak for yourself.

I _publish_ my source code.  Which makes it very hard to fake data with
Crafty, for example.

You don't.  So you can claim anything you want, safely.  I don't have that
option, nor would I do so if I could...




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