Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:03:52 09/05/02
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On September 05, 2002 at 10:29:23, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On September 04, 2002 at 14:03:35, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >In short i conclude that for the article you had plenty of >time because not a single result was generated for it. > >You did this years before it. How can such a thing influence >results? > No idea what you mean. Results were finished in 1994. Paper was written after that and finally published in 1997. early 1996 saw every disk file I owned disappear. That made 1996 a busy year. Is there more to say??? You keep flip-flopping. You had plenty of time. You didn't have time. You could have run the test without watching. Etc. Care to pick a position and _stick_ there for a while??? > >>On September 04, 2002 at 13:32:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On September 04, 2002 at 12:43:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>you say you was very busy getting crafty to optimize it for >>>alpha that year. The article was published in march 1997, >>>the world championship in october 1997, so i assume >>>you refer to 'that year' but the year before 1996 >>>in Jakarta? >> >>I believe I said _both_. If you read carefully. We went to both >>events. 1996 saw me working on performance, and again in 1997 as I >>was working on an alpha port right after the 1996 event since DEC >>had already agreed to give us a machine for the next tournament. >> >>> >>>How can a program that is completely different from crafty >>>and running at a different architecture need time from you >>>instead of SYSTEM time? >> >>There was no "system time" involved. Again, why not try reading >>things first and _then_ responding? I ran the tests in 1993 and early >>1994. I have said this many times. Beyond that point, no cray access >>was needed, all the data was finished. The time after that was spent >>on writing the actual paper, which is pretty long, then fiddling with >>lots of changes as suggested by the referees, and going thru _several_ >>referee cycles. >> >> >> >>> >>>You tested different versions for the article and had to modify >>>cray blitz each time or something? What work did cray blitz need? >> >>None. All testing was completed by june 1994. The paper production too >>the next 2.5 years... no more testing was needed, possible, or done. >> >>I _know_ I have written this multiple times here in CCC already. And >>you accuse _me_ of "having a horrible memory"? At least I have _some_ >>memory... >> >>I am sure you can find the 1993-1994 date several times here if you look >>hard enough.
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