Author: jonathan Baxter
Date: 19:17:39 11/09/98
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On November 09, 1998 at 20:06:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On November 09, 1998 at 19:50:27, jonathan Baxter wrote: > >>Given the extent to which DB built upon freely published research, and the >>amount of publicity IBM gained from the last Kasparov match, it seems to me that >>letting DB play in open competition is the least IBM could have done to repay >>their debt to the research community. > >I would have liked to have seen them publish more information about their >system, and give others a more controlled opportunity to play it. > >But remember that over the years they have written several useful articles. > >They could do more, of course, but this is still more than most of the >professionals by a factor of approximately infinity. In the case of DB it is far more important to know how it plays than to know how it works. After all, it runs 1,000 times faster than micro programs so they have the luxury of doing all sorts of things that are going to be of little use to a micro programmer. So while I agree that they have published (nearly) infinitly more than most professional programmers about how it works, they have given (nearly) infinitly less opportunity to play it than most professional programmers. And it is the latter that matters. Jon > >bruce
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