Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:51:41 12/24/98
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On December 24, 1998 at 14:59:23, Robin Smith wrote: >If what hueristics work best changes based on the speed of hardware, wouldn't it >make sense to also change hueristics based on the time control being used? I'm >thinking of a program that adapts it's hueristics to the time control used might >be a big benefit. Would there be barriers to such an approach? I'm not sure... just that speed takes care of some things that would other- wise be taken care of by programming, and vice-versa. I've always found the "tuning" for a particular speed level to be interesting. IE on a motorcycle, you have a given horsepower and a weight you can work with to make that horse- power perform reasonably. In a car, the equation changes as you have more horsepower and therefore carry more weight for more utility... Or in aviation, the difference between a "glider" and a C5A...
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