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Subject: "3.1 comes from running a large number of positions several years back"

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 09:19:13 05/06/04


I hope you don't mean the ones blow.

Are you still claiming you 'measured' 3.1 which supposedly contradicts
the 2.8 I measured?

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>Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:14:59 +0200 (MEST)
>From: Gian-Carlo Pascutto <gcp@sjeng.org>
>X-Sender:  <giancarlo@garf.natrese.be>
>To: "Robert M. Hyatt" <hyatt@cis.uab.edu>
>Cc: <diep@xs4all.nl>
>Subject: Re: Parallel results so far
>
>
>
>On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
>
>> Here is the results:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>            ---null=2/3---        ---null=off---
>> position   1cpu  4cpu S/U        1cpu  4cpu S/U
>> kopec 21   27.9  10.7 2.6        30.3  12.4 2.4
>> kopec 22   22.5   6.1 3.8        26.0   7.5 3.5
>> kopec 23   33.5  11.2 3.0        20.9   6.4 3.3
>> kopec 24   18.1   6.0 3.0        26.2   8.3 3.1
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> note.  all positions were searched for 30-45 seconds
>> with the last 1-cpu output used to measure how long
>> the 4-cpu search took to reach the same output (say
>> the end of a search, or a PV move and score displayed).
>>
>> Vincent claimed "I never ran this test."  Thought I would
>> run it _again_ just to expose "baloney".
>>
>> I think the conclusion from the above is
>
>Conlusions from the above? Howso?
>
>                speedup
>Nullmove          3.1      +- 0.25
>Non-nullmove      3.1      +- 0.25
>
>The standard errors (1SD) are way too huge to allow what
>you try to conclude. I measured a speedup of 2.85 with
>nullmove and 3.1 without, whereas your test wouldn't even
>be able to differentiate between the two.
>
>If you want to scientifically settle this,
>you'll need more and better data.
>
>(I couldn't find the CCC article reffered to earlier)
>
>--
>GCP



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