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Subject: Re: CEGT: testing and presentation of results

Author: Heinz van Kempen

Date: 13:28:18 10/20/05

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>Some conmments:
>1)I never claimed that testers told lies.
>

-- and I did not claim that you claimed it but that people have the impression,
so people not = Uri Blass


>2)problems happen with hardware and I did not claim that only the CEGT may have
>problems that are not results of statistical errors.
>

--they happen, mainly in hot summers because of CPU overheat or because of
faulty RAM, testers are aware of that, they happen more often because of bugs in
engines

>3)If an engine starts like a superstar and drop like a stone or the opposite it
>increase the probability that something is wrong with the results.
>
>It does not mean that something is wrong in the last games and it is also
>possible that something was wrong in the first games.
>
>The question is only what is the result that justify checking if there is
>problem.

-snipped-

>Suspecting that something is wrong is normal behaviour and it is not a personal
>attack.
>I can only be sorry that people see it as personal against them.
>

-- It would not happen when people ask in a friendly way, it tends to happen
more often when there are spectacular headers like: "Re: a mistake of
Fruit2.2Uri in CEGT (bug or another problem?)". This would also increase the
readiness by testers to investigate more.

Best Regards
Heinz

>Uri



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