Author: martin fierz
Date: 16:22:25 09/04/02
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On September 04, 2002 at 18:20:49, Terry Ripple wrote: >This is hardly the place to try and discredit our fellow CCC members and you >know who i'am refering to! This was very distasteful and uncalled for and >shouldn't have been allowed to continue at all. > >I just wanted to give my opinion on this matter! > >Regards, > Terry i disagree with you... bob's DTS paper has 2 major flaws with numbers: 1. numbers in a table are claimed to be measured, and they are not, and vincent is absolutely right to point this out. 2. bob's rounding of 1.81 to 1.9 and rounding the average of these rounded results can result in an average speedup of 1.82 to be reported as 2.0. this is ridiculous and any undergraduate student should not get away with something like that. in science (unlike religion), you are allowed (and supposed) to point out mistakes even of prominent members of the community. bob hyatt is not the pope, and if he makes mistakes, i will say so. there is no need to do it in vincent's tone of course, but that is a different matter ;-) what should be totally clear is that even if the numbers are a bit flawed, it does not invalidate the paper at all. but the numbers are flawed, and saying so has NOTHING to do with "bashing". aloha martin
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