Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:25:49 11/18/99
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On November 18, 1999 at 22:06:31, Tina Long wrote: >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 http://www.utopiasw.demon.co.uk/acronyms.htm Your mileage may vary. It could also mean whatever else you like. I have my own invention also: [FCOL] For Crying Out Loud (but people often imagine it is something much more colorful) >(Veducci - expensive shoes, possibly worn by corporate moguls) > >Behave Dann! My CCC moderator platform says I don't have to.
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