Author: Tina Long
Date: 19:06:31 11/18/99
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On November 18, 1999 at 21:35:53, Dann Corbit wrote: >On November 18, 1999 at 19:24:59, ShaktiFire wrote: > >>Those bitches at IBM, supposedly doing a scientific endeavor, never release >>any info about what they have learned, not even in scientific type publications, >>no evals, no ideas on how they beat Kasparov. They have become whores of >>capitalism,,, looking for the buck,,, not the growth of knowledge. > >IBM did more for computer chess than anyone else since the 1970's by that one >single tournament. People are still talking about it today [see this thread?] > >I will go so far as to say that the Deep Blue/Kasparov matches were the most >entertaining thing in all of chess in the last one hundred years. [IMO -- >obviously]. I suspect that more chess interest was generated by this single set >of two events than by all other chess happenings combined. I agree with everything Dann says up to here. I also fully agree with Pete in the Post below. And as I'm in agreement, and have nothing to add I was not going to post, then.... > >We should be down on our knees, kissing their rich, corporate boots for the good >that they have done for us. Before or after you are spanked? > >Now, as for not sharing -- that's their perogative. IBM is a company, and you >are right -- their decisions will be controlled by money. If you owned a >corporation, I suspect your bottom line would effect what information you kept >and released as well. > >As far as your assertions about not sharing -- that is obviously false as the >papers published by Hsu and Campbell over the years have shown. Finally, there >is a book being written on the topic (as has already been discussed in this very >forum -- were you paying attention?) which will certainly add to our >information. > >Even if they never uttered a syllable and just kept Deep Blue as a black box so >that we had no idea at all about how it worked, we should be deeply grateful. > >It is easy to aim barbs at huge corporations and call them the evil empire. In >this case, I think you are miles off target. Hear Hear, >IMO-YMMV. I get IMO in my opinion, but what's YMMV? The best I can cum up with is: Yummy Mumble Mumble Veducci (Veducci - expensive shoes, possibly worn by corporate moguls) Behave Dann!
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