Re: Unices are created equal, but ...
Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.esa.de)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:10:06 --100
> > Twenty years ago I wrote some checkers playing programs.
> > First a primitive one that did reasonably well.
> > Then a much more sophisticated one, with lots of tunable
> > parameters, and let it play against itself many times, in
> > order to optimize the parameters.
> > In the end it had become much worse than the primitive program -
> > the only thing it was good at, was beating other incarnations
> > of itself.
> >
> > Tuning is dangerous.
>
> Hah. Nice to have reinvented the wheel. I'm probably much younger
> than you are, and did have the same experience with a five-in-a-row
> playing program.
Yes, it's amazing how careful use of the random number generator can
make such programs seem more intelligent than they are too...!!
Karl