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Subject: Re: NPS, EBF, Knowledge and Elo

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:43:59 08/15/03

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On August 15, 2003 at 13:43:22, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On August 15, 2003 at 12:19:54, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2003 at 04:18:54, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 14, 2003 at 22:40:04, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>>
>>>>If doubling NPS (all else being equal) produces a roughly 40 to 75 elo strength
>>>>increase, then doubling knowledge produces how much elo strength increase?
>>>>
>>>>Or do increases in knowledge follow a completely different type of relationship
>>>>to playing stength?
>>>>
>>>>What impact on NPS does a doubling of knowledge have? I know it slows it down,
>>>>but what is the relationship (a rule of thumb) between the 2? It is said that
>>>>adding knowldege in hardware does not exact a speed penalty, but can this really
>>>>be true? Or is the speed penalty simply less apparent?
>>>>
>>>>How much attention should a programmer give to lowering the EBF of his program
>>>>versus adding more knowledge?
>>>
>>>I believe that lowering the EBF is more important.
>>
>>
>>I agree with this 100%.
>>
>
>I believe that the only way to lower the EBF is to make the program smarter.
>(Add knowledge).
>
>You may not agree 100%.

Let me ammend that to "the only useful way" to lower the EBF.



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