Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:51:36 11/14/98
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On November 13, 1998 at 15:53:45, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On November 13, 1998 at 11:19:19, Larry Coon wrote: > >>On November 12, 1998 at 19:24:04, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On November 12, 1998 at 16:47:22, Larry Coon wrote: >>> >>>>Yeah, but I'd hate to spend a lot of time developing and >>>>benchmarking an approach that fails, only to find that >>>>there's a big, obvious drawback that I'd overlooked. >>> >>>You are not going to like programming chess, if this kind of thing bothers you >>>:-) >>> >>>bruce >> >>:-) Sorry, I should have been a little more specific, since >>my professional life has had more than its share of researching >>approaches that are later found to be bad.... >> >>Maybe I should have said that I hate being the *second* person >>to invent the Edsel.... > >This may actually be an excellent example, because unless I mis-remember, the >problem with the Edsel wasn't that it was a bad car, it was that nobody wanted >to buy it because it looked like, "a Cadillac sucking a lemon". > *NO*. The Edsel was infamous because *everything* was different on the car. *everything*. IE different starter hardware... oddball this, oddball that... It's claim to fame was being "different". It was so different it "died".... I don't remember all the oddball things this far back, but my uncle owned one, and everytime he asked my dad to help him fix something on it, I remember my dad asking "what idiot would put this here?" Or "what idiot decided to replace a perfectly good idea with this piece of junk?" >There are lots of techniques that some people use and a some other people have >decided don't work. I think it's great to keep all of this old stuff in play, >since the result is what I think could accurately be termed cross-pollenation. > >So by all means reinvent the wheel, see if it works, and if it does you can >either sit on it and an enjoy an advantage because everyone else thinks this >technique sucks and you know otherwise, or you can tell other people about it >and they can enjoy the benefits too, or they can try it and find that it still >sucks, for them, and maybe you both can gather some insights by figuring out >why. > >This is not just blue-sky, it really happens. > >bruce I think retrying "the wheel" is good. I think that spending several years to develop a basic alpha/beta search is bad.. and that is likely what would happen if someone starts off 100% cold...
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