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Subject: Missing masses of information and Minimax musings

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:49:44 06/21/99

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On June 21, 1999 at 20:56:01, Dave Gomboc wrote:
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>You already have the leaf values computed, so the proposed algorithm is
>inefficient.  Simply do a depth-first search (with cycle detection) and backup
>scores in a minimax fashion.  Now it takes one pass through the items.
Is minimax valid when we have missing data points?  I don't want to have to
generate the billions of missing nodes.

I could use Alpha/Beta cutoff, for that matter (if it works).



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