Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:29:31 06/28/05
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On June 28, 2005 at 04:38:40, Robin Smith wrote: >On June 28, 2005 at 00:36:59, enrico carrisco wrote: > >>If you put that kind of money behind any of the top commercial programmers, >>you'd have the same monster -- if not more of one... >> >>-elc. > >And what would the top programmers do with this money? They can't program many >more hours/day than they already do. I suppose they could direct the efforts of >a huge team of programers, but I doubt today's PCs could do as well as Hydra no >matter how many PC programmers you threw at it. I think that the pc are not the problem. The problem is that SMK Amir Ban and Fransh Morsh are not good programmers. It is clearly possible to improve chess programs more than they do (see the improvement of fruit and Fabien does not work full time on fruit and he writes in the readme:"There were only 3 main changes as compared with Fruit 2.0, because I had also been working on other programming projects.") The professional programmers needed years to do few changes to improve the level of their program by 100 elo from fruit2 level that is probably something near Junior6 or Junior7 to fruit2.1 level that is similiar to Fritz Bilbao or Junior9. Note the time of release of Fruit Fruit2 2004/12/24 Fruit2.1 2005/06/17 Fabien in less than half a year without working full time on it got the same improvements that the professional programmers needed years to get. It tells me that the professional programmers are not good programmers. Uri
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