Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Rogier Wolff <> | Subject | Re: Unices are created equal, but ... | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 1996 14:34:03 +0200 |
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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> 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.
Roger.
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