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Subject: Re: DCCC 25th : a few comments from a Fruit's friend.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:02:29 11/13/05

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On November 13, 2005 at 09:51:00, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On November 13, 2005 at 05:57:57, Ryan B. wrote:
>
>>I agree again, it does not take long to learn by reading Fruits eval code.  If
>>people could read Zappas or Shredders eval functions we would have a better
>>chance of beating them or tuning a program to beat them.
>
>I think this a complete misconception.
>
>If I would just have read Fruit's code, I would have concluded it to be a weak
>program. Looking at the games would quickly show this to be wrong.
>
>You need games, not code.
>
>--
>GCP

The fact that you could get wrong conclusions only show that you had some wrong
assumptions.

It does not show that it is impossible to learn from fruit.
You may need games to know if a program is strong but you do not need games in
order to learn from a program after you know that it is strong.

Uri



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