Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:33:00 12/12/99
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On December 12, 1999 at 05:45:01, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote:
>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.
I don't think serious programmers would do it, but you can still find one
unknown guy suddenly coming out with an alleged 3000 elo on some test suites.
Christophe
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