-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm starting to get curious. What are you doing that is causing it to win 11 out of 11 against genAnchor_1k and yet it's only 113 ELO stronger? And it's supposedly an identical program? I don't think it's actually identical and I don't trust that you did everything the same. Of course I could have a bug too, but it doesn't explain why your program is much weaker than the results against genAnchor would indicate.
How many all-as-first moves are you considering? What are the possible differences? 1. eye rule 2. number of all-as-first moves (7/8 for me + 1) 3. quality of RNG 4. correctness of random move selection strategy. 5. depth at which you stop a game. (about 1000 moves for me.) 6. stopping rule. (both program have no non-eye filling moves.) I just thought of something. I think I initialize the statistics array with 1 draw per move as a cheesy way to avoid divide by zero error. Could this be affecting the performance? Perhaps at low levels like this it has a noticeable effect? Would it make the program especially vulnerable to an identical program that doesn't do this? - - Don Jason House wrote: > Statistically speaking, I can say with 99.9% confidence that > hb-amaf-1k-v2 is stronger than genAnchor-1k. No need to wait any longer > to conclude that :) The math to compute the one-tailed p-value for > rejecting the null hypothesis that the bots are the same strength is > left as an exercise for the reader ;) > > On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 07:20 -0700, steve uurtamo wrote: >>> Strangely enough, it now appears that hb-amaf-1k-v2 is significantly >>> stronger than genAnchor-1k, defeating it 9 out of 9 times. I still have >>> to wonder what the cause of the strength difference is. >> now is the time to just let it run for a few weeks and check on the >> stats later. >> >> s. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows >> on Yahoo! TV. >> http://tv.yahoo.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> computer-go mailing list >> computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG/wSKDsOllbwnSikRAm+EAJ4+PrLMO7Uyf3ejn61nzZcwOgyvnACeL0tD acGx8Fhu1Co5fk8OMvDFuhE= =fFvv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
