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Subject: Re: It's in the news – is it ever in the news!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:19:21 10/06/02

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On October 06, 2002 at 02:51:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 06, 2002 at 01:15:52, Gregor Overney wrote:
>
>>>
>>>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021007/misc/7chess.htm
>>>
>>
>>Yes. Good summary by Boyce. Somehow, I get the impression that IBM's Deep Blue
>>is so much faster than the HW that will play against Kramnik.
>
>Speed alone means nothing. Compared to todays programs, Deep Blue
>was horribly inefficient.
>
>--
>GCP


The engine powering an F-14 TomCat is _horribly_ inefficient also.  But when you
have
that much excess power, inefficiency doesn't really matter much...  If you burn
10x as much
fuel, but you only go 5x faster, you are _still_ faster...




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