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Subject: Re: Test suites - can they reliably predict ELO?

Author: Baldomero Garcia, Jr.

Date: 02:45:01 12/12/99

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On December 11, 1999 at 21:14:14, Christophe Theron wrote:

>>  Why is this Test secret??
>
>
>Because this guarantees that nobody will tune his program to do well in this
>test.

I wasn't aware that programmers "tuned" their programs to do well in test
suites.  In any case, if this tuning not only improves the scores in the test,
but also improves the actual performance of the program, then the test should be
available.

Baldo.



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