Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:10:06 --100 | From | (Karl Keyte) | Subject | Re: Unices are created equal, but ... |
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> > 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
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