Author: KarinsDad
Date: 14:06:34 01/27/99
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On January 27, 1999 at 16:46:11, Peter Fendrich wrote: [snip] >Well, I have an argument against myself here. >If I (in my garden again) support my trees with less furtilizer or water they >will grow smaller. Even so when using the technique for bonzai trees. We never >call these techniques pruning do we... Although a cute example, it does have a corollary in the computer chess world after all. It is called computer resources. If I have a faster processor, I have more fertilizer. If I have more memory, I have more water. When I run the same program with the same position on a different computer, I am running it in a different garden with different characteristics. Hence, your statement (or argument as you called it) does not really hold. We call these "techniques" resources. Therefore, you need not argue with yourself and can feel more confident that the other statements that you made may contain more validity since a reduction in resources should not be considered pruning. KarinsDad :) > >But, still I think it would be clarifying with one word for all kinds of tree >reductions (at least when the reduction contains some type of risky assumptions. >In that case we would exclude alpha/beta which is a "mathematical sound" >reduction.) >And this term could be "pruning" if this doesn't clearly conflict with tree >searching theory in general. > >//Peter
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