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Subject: Re: Another poll: strength of Zappa and Hydra

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:07:47 12/27/05

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On December 27, 2005 at 14:05:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 27, 2005 at 13:40:21, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Voting on which program is stronger is the same.
>
>It's not - your analogy is flawed.
>
>The constant could be experimentally verified to be some values, plus or minus
>some error margin. We do this with chessprograms a lot.
>
>But since Hydra hides, there is no way to measure the strength to any usable
>degree.

But guessing is not better than measuring (in the absense of data.)

My point is that the guess does not establish anything of merit or value, except
to see how people feel about it.

• Re: Another poll: strength of Zappa and Hydra Gian-Carlo Pascutto 11:42:14 12/27/05
  • Re: Another poll: strength of Zappa and Hydra Dann Corbit 12:10:42 12/27/05
    • Re: Another poll: strength of Zappa and Hydra Gian-Carlo Pascutto 13:11:40 12/27/05

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