Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:45:14 02/01/99
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On January 31, 1999 at 23:29:16, Don Dailey wrote: >Actually, YES. I am horribly pragmatic, but am gradually changing as >I get older. For instance if the lock slowed down the program 6 percent, >but a combination of testing and my best guess judgement calls indicated >that I would lose 1/2 point every 30 games because of it, I would accept >the risk because it means the program is slightly stronger. Play on ICC and you'd know that this is an extremely bad tradeoff. What you say might be true if you play opponents that are equal to your strength, or above, but if you start playing hundreds of points down all the time, you have to win every game. Also, I'd think you'd go insane if you lost a half-point every 30 games due to something that was inexplicable. You'd spend a huge amount of time debugging, and every time you find a hard bug you'd pass it off as this problem, and you wouldn't be right every time. I'm willing to allow my program to make mistakes, but I'd really like to understand them at least. It isn't clear that you'd lose a half point every 30 games though, it might be every 30 years, which is a lot more acceptable. bruce
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