Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 14:41:15 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 17:37:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 16:58:39, Daniel Clausen wrote: >>Welp that's a bit harsh, don't you think? He doesn't produce crap at all. >>He clearly states the formula in every GreenList he (automatically) produces. >>If the "big masses" take just the number and interpret it the way they want, >>it's their fault, not Wills. (same goes for statistics btw) >> >>His formula is also not wrong, because he *defines* the formula this way. And >>definitions are neither right nor wrong. They may be useful or not in a certain >>context, but they're not "crap" as you put it. >> >>Will also didn't claim it's the best formula there is, he even invited you to >>come up with a better definition of R. (which you failed to do so far btw) >> >>You (Vincent) have good points to make, but I wish you'd learn how to say >>your point a bit less harsh. Subjects like "<whatever> sucks" is not a nice/ >>scientific way to do this. > >Perhaps. Perhaps some dudes here need to wake up too. >Big masses already tell me at university (so you obviously know >who those big masses are: teachers and students) currently: > "chess is solved by deep blue". > >Now you can cry that this is not true. For a BILLION people it is true, >only about a million out of those billion that ever heart from the >name 'chess', those might know a bit more. > >Anyhow. Companies agree with that billion. Many months i tried to get >a hardware sponsor (so just BORROW a machine, not get it forever), >couldn't get a single one. Only offers i got were from the computerchess >world themselves. Only 2 parallel machines i could get: > - dual ultrasparc 300Mhz from university Utrecht > - quad xeon from Robert Hyatt > >Of course i was very happy with the generous offer of Bob. He even needed >to physically transfer the big machine as the internal network is different >from the external network, and also needed to go several times extra to the >university to reboot it as i managed to get it hung several times. > >Still am happy about his offer. Have his offer for german open again. > >Yet, before 1998, this all was a lot simpler. What does any of this have to do with the R(Mhz) formula?
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