Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:40:15 12/31/05
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On December 30, 2005 at 13:02:43, Ingo Althofer wrote: Ingo, how do you plan to *ever* win a tournament with a limited amount of parameters? Vincent >Thanks for the nice and insightful report! > >Zappa wrote: >> ... People have wondered for months now why Fruit is so >> strong. My opinion is that he simply has so few parameters >> to tune that he can get them exactly right :) > >One comment on this: You should not see this as a joke. >It is one of the best arts to find the right SMALL set of >parameters and to tune them. > >Some 12 years ago I had a technical article on this >("On telescoping linear evaluation functions") in the >ICCA Journal (now ICGA Jornal), Vol 16 (June 1993), >pp. 91-94, describing a theorem (of existence) which says >that in case of linear evaluation functions with lots >of terms there is always a small subset of the terms >such that this set with the right parameters is >almost as good as the full evaluation function. > >Ingo Althofer. > >PS: In motor biking Valentino Rossi is the >superstar, for several years already. One of >the secrets of his success is that he does not >try to tune everything at his engine - but >concentrates on the right handful of parameters.
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