Author: Jay Scott
Date: 14:33:58 06/28/04
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On June 28, 2004 at 17:25:14, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >Good chess is good chess. The hope is that it generates something reasonable. >In general it has gotten similar values to the Crafty defaults. That's certainly an excellent start. >I don't think >autotuning will ever be as good as manual tuning, but it gives you a reasonable >starting place I don't think current methods are going to work as well as manual tuning, which is based on a combination of empirical thinking and analytic thinking, because current methods are purely empirical. But algorithms are getting smarter; math works on them. I believe that someday automated tuning will be so much better than manual tuning that we'll wonder how we ever got by. >it also tells you whether a new parameter is good or >complete trash. Which is valuable in itself. Also it's a way to find bugs: "How did that passed pawn term get a negative value?" Jay
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