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Subject: Re: simple proof of > 2.0

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:44:46 09/06/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 13:45:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 05, 2002 at 12:00:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 05, 2002 at 11:16:35, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 05, 2002 at 11:01:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>Your article does mention something else. it mensions see
>>>text as also produced here. It says *nothing* on pondering.
>>>
>>>It is your word here which says it. And i don't believe your
>>>word at all. You also said in a conversation as shown here
>>>that the search times were accurate and the real search times
>>>for all testoutputs, which by now is obviously a lie.
>>
>>A lie to you.  A "mistake" to me.  The only data I _ever_ thought about
>>in the DTS article was the speedup data, and I knew _exactly_ where it came
>>from.  Sure, I was wrong about the times/nodes.  I should have remembered the
>>nodes when I pointed out your silly error with Crafty's node counts so many
>>times in email to you.  But I didn't.
>>
>>However, the email describes the "driver" program.  And you had that email
>>a month ago.  There were others way earlier also when you first started asking
>>me about dts when you were starting on a parallel search.  So you _knew_ it
>>was pondering.  Because I told you so.
>>
>>In the JICCA, the original article was 25+ pages.  The first order from the
>>referees was "make it shorter".  And the second and third pass were the same.
>>I probably deleted things that would be better left in, but in order to meet
>>the requirements of the journal, I simply shortened whatever the referees said
>>to shorten.
>>
>>If you ever publish something, you will run into the same thing.  Always
>>"make it shorter".  or "accept this paper, but it needs to be rewritten and
>>significantly shortened."
>>
>>Common...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>The whole article is a big lie with regard to the outputs
>>>simply. Your cray blitz thing has an unknown speedup simply.
>>
>>Your words, not mine.  I say the speedups are as displayed.  Because
>>I know where the data came from.  If you don't like the extrapolated
>>times and nodes, that's ok.  But the speedups are raw.
>
>So we must trust you on your statement that the speedup was like
>that, despite that all other data is falsified which is then used
>to calculate the speedup...
>


Are you _really_ that dense?  Or just pretending?  How could I calculate
the times, to then calculate the speedups, to then calculate the times
again?

The speedups came from raw data.  _period_.  The times/nodes were derived
from the speedups later.



>COMON
>
>Grow up.


good advice.  Try following it.





>
>>>
>>>The fact that the speedup which is claimed is 2.0 though you
>>>say it is impossible to get > 2.0, whereas it is easy
>>>to show proof it is possible to get > 2.0, but not a single
>>>speedup of yours is > 2.0, because you of course couldn't
>>>imagine it either before you wrote the article, that says
>>>enough.
>>
>>Good "proof"...  :)
>>
>>I don't get many speedups > 2, as I said.  I get a few, but when I do,
>>I also get more that are < 2, which is _demanded_ by logic of course.
>>But don't let me stop you from showing a rigorous mathematical proof that
>>you can get >2.0 over _all_ positions you search.  Or even over the majority
>>of the positions you search.  I'm anxiously waiting for that.
>>
>>Oh yes, and "because it is true" is _not_ a proof...



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