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Subject: Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 08:35:16 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 11:22:21, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On January 31, 2003 at 11:10:56, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>>>http://mysite.freeserve.com/grahamlaight/jscript/GuessWhichHand.htm
>>>>>>>>>>(works fine under IE - Netscape fault will be fixed over the weekend)
>>>>>>>>>>
>
>Maybe a way to improve it would be to (if possible) make 2 windows based
>programs who would play eachother on the computer and generate statistics based
>on their games against eachother, and then later impliment a learing function in
>only one of the two programs which played the statistic generating matches and
>see if the one with a learning function would fare significantly better with
>learning?

This is a very good idea - thankyou for the suggestion. A few thoughts:

* it is already a learning game, in that the program is constantly looking for
patterns in the way that you play. The longer you play, the more patterns it
"learns" (or, more accurately, "finds"), and the more difficult it seems to
become to play against.

* In chess, there'd be clear benefit in having a learning machine play another
computer. This game is designed to play against humans (unless someone wants to
start a "guess where the penny is" computer championship), so there's absolutely
no guarantee whatsoever that improving one's play against another program will
improve one's play against a human at all. It could well make it worse, in fact.

I like your line of thinking though!

-g

>The learning function in the engine should of course be able to read the
>produced statistics from their previous games.
>
>This would, again if possible, give you a much better understanding of how to
>improve on your website "engine".
>
>Regards
>Jonas



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