Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:21:17 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 14:59:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 15, 2005 at 14:46:16, Cesar Contreras wrote: > >> >>>I do not think that doing changes in the last days before the tournament is a >>>mistake if you check the code for bugs and fabien does it. >> >> >>It's easy to broke things in a complex system like a chess program and it's very >>dificult to discover bugs, they are likely not to be discovered with just a few >>days of testing. >> >>http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/des_s99/sw_reliability/#bathtub >> >>It's my believe that days before an important event it's better to focus on >>adjusting parameters, book preparation and hardware preparation than changing >>code. > >It is my believe that Fabien is a good programmer so he already has good tools >to detect bugs and changes in the evaluation like adding contemt factor in the >last day are not a big risk for him. > >Uri It is dangerous for _anybody_ to make last-minute changes. Don't care _who_ you are...
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