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Subject: Re: Let's talk about fraud.

Author: martin fierz

Date: 15:51:58 05/03/04

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On May 03, 2004 at 11:04:59, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On May 03, 2004 at 09:20:51, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 2004 at 02:14:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On May 02, 2004 at 18:49:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 02, 2004 at 18:23:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 02, 2004 at 13:12:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>He sent me an email trying to justify his poor performance.  He first claimed
>>>>>>that it was an artifact of null-move.  Testing disproved that.
>>>>>
>>>>>What testing?
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>GCP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The testing you and I both did.  It showed a minimal speedup difference if you
>>>>recall.  2.8 vs 3.1...  not _that_ significant...
>>>
>>>2.8 for with nullmove
>>>3.0 for without nullmove
>>>
>>>A major difference. based upon 30+ positions.
>>>
>>>And both not *close* to speedup(n) = 1.0 + 0.7(n-1)
>>
>>i know nothing about this thread, i know nothing about multiprocessing, but i do
>>know that the above formula gives 3.1 for n=4.
>>i don't know about you, but i consider both 2.8 and 3.0 to be "close" to 3.1 -
>>as a physicist, i tend to think of numbers within 10% as equal ;-)
>>
>>cheers
>>  martin
>
>As a physicist, you consider all numbers within an order of magnitude as equal
>;)

umm, you would fail any physics course that i teach :-)

cheers
  martin

>anthony



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