Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:02:38 12/18/02
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On December 18, 2002 at 11:07:49, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >Have you ever conducted any research? If so, you would have known that a >researcher doesn't examine everything since the creation of earth, he takes >something which is known to be better and tries to improve it. If I were testing the properties of a specific isotope of a specific element, I would assume that previous research is valid, because the test material is invariant. If I were testing something whose properties were variant, I would have to repeat some previous research. If you understand a certain type of wood, and are skilled at doing fine carpentry with this kind of wood, you may not be able to use the same methods on a different type of wood, because that wood may have different properties. The blind assumption that all wood is the same would lead you to produce some crusty looking furniture. You can't make use of much previous research in the computer chess field. A lot of it was conducted on slow hardware, a lot was conducted before null-move happened, etc. So if someone says that R=2 is better than R=3, there is *no way* that I am going to believe this until I run it myself. There are plenty of techniques that haven't been repeatable. I believe that people have had a hard time repeating MTD(f). There were also problems repeating Donninger's "deep search" aspect of his original null-move article. I'm sure that there are others. Most of that research is just ideas about stuff to try to repeat. >I didn't think that someone will seriously claim that std R=3 is better than std >R=3; but now, I'd be glad to write another paper comparing those two, and also I'm assuming you mean R=2 in the second line. Your own data implies this. I think it behooves you to investigate it. I believe that if you run R=3 for the amount of time that it takes you to get to depth=10 with R=2, *you* will find that you get more answers on both the WCS suite and the Neishtadt suite. If you don't, I would have serious questions as to why not. You are within one solution already. How could you expect that you won't get at least two more solutions if you more than double the time? bruce >mentioning fixed time comparisons if people find it interesting. Because >although not appearing the article, I have conducted tens of other types of >experiments (including fixed time) and I _know_ that vrfd R=2 is clearly >superior to std R=3.
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