Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:07:51 11/29/99
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On November 29, 1999 at 18:30:26, Charles Unruh wrote: >On November 29, 1999 at 18:08:38, Tim Mirabile wrote: > >>On November 29, 1999 at 14:37:31, Charles Unruh wrote: >> >>>On November 29, 1999 at 14:08:46, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>>Why don't we forget about absolute ratings and make them program-relative >>>>instead? >>> >>>Because most of us as well as most consumers are not as concerned with the >>>relative strength of comps vs comps as we are with comps vs humans. >> >>Then we should be playing hundreds of games with the programs against humans of >>various strengths above and below what we think is the approximate strength of >>the program. > >Well of course! That's what everyone wants but it's not going to happen, we >don't have that so we have to use what's available. > > Anything less will not give you what you want to an accuracy >>of better than a few hundred points. > >The ssdf was originally based on games vs humans, we can't calivrate the current >ratings back exactly, but the drift should be able to be calclated within at >least +/- 50 or so based on what statistical theory? The rating pools have changed dramatically. The ratings have nothing to do with the original SSDF ratings now, as none of the original 'pool' remains active...
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