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Subject: Re: I'm being too harsh, but still

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:43:00 12/18/02

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On December 18, 2002 at 15:19:54, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On December 18, 2002 at 11:22:48, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>>I have not tested Omid's variant.
>>
>>There are two types of people: those who when see an idea, implement it, and
>>only then criticize it; and those who criticize first and only then try it. I
>>previously thought that only Vincent is in the latter group...
>
>This is completely unfair, and you are turning this into something personal.
>
>I take issue with some of the elements of your paper, and perhaps with the
>larger issue of how people do testing in computer chess academic papers.  That
>is all.
>
>If your intent was to show that VR=3 is better than R=2, in your own program,
>you have shown that, but VR=3 is a variant of R=3, and you needed to investigate
>the relationship between R=3 as well as between R=2 and VR=3.
>
>You considered it axiomatic that R=2 is better than R=3, but your own data
>strongly implies that R=3 is better than R=2.
>
>None of this has anything to do with whether or not your idea is good.  Your
>contention is that I should have to prove that your algorithm is bad before I
>criticize your article.  That is not how things work.  I could stipulate that
>your algorithm is good, and this would not affect the substance of my criticism.
> If you write a paper, the burden of proof is on *you* to show that your
>algorithm is good.  This is true whether or not your algorithm is actually good.
>
>Meaning, that just because your algorithm is good does not exempt you from
>having to prove it, and just because someone else comes along later and proves
>it doesn't mean that your original paper was done properly.
>
>bruce

I agree

I think that the important question is not if the paper was done properly(a lot
of papers were not done properly).

The important question is if the idea is a good idea.

Only Vincent claims that it has to be a bad idea.
other people say that it works for them or do not work for them or work for them
with some modification but do not say that it is a general bad idea.

I believe that it may be productive with some rules that use verification search
only in part of the cases.

Uri



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