Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:23:08 12/18/02
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On December 18, 2002 at 03:52:51, Uri Blass wrote: >I do not think that the paper claimed to prove that verification search is >better than R=3(I agree that it was better to do it but there is a difference >between criticizing a paper for not doing it and saying that everything that the >author knows is wrong). > >I believe that it is better than R=3 for a lot of programs(at least at long time >control). > >I think that the interesting question is not if the article is written correctly >but if the idea can help programs. >If the idea can help programs even when you can criticize the article then >saying "everything that you know is wrong" does not seems to me correct. > > >I agree that the fact that articles do not try to compare time is wrong. >I understand the problem of the fact that time is not deterministic but >it is still possible to use fixed estimated time. > >The program may have a global varaible with the name estimated_time that may be >updated after every procedure so the result can be reproducable and give better >estimate for time than the number of nodes. > >Uri "Everything you know is wrong" is a quote from the video game, "Marble Madness", and is not designed to be a taken literally. There were a bunch of levels, and in one of them, you had to go uphill instead of downhill. I enjoy the quote, since it so fully dashes previously held assumptions about how the world works. bruce
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