RE: [Bug-gnubg] Re: Tutorial 2.00 - Comments

[Albert Silver]

> - I know GNUbg is mostly about Backgammon and very little about free
> software - Yet, it would be nice to try and stay away from proprietary
> formats like .doc files

This is merely what I wrote it in, not what will be made available. The
public release will be hosted in HTML at Tom Keith's site just as the
previous version: http://www.bkgm.com/gnu/AllAboutGNU.html

I will also make available a downloadable version in PDF at Nardy's
site, again, like the previous version. The DOC version was only
distributed to allow commentary to further improve it.

> 
> - How strong is GNU?
>    The recently released GNU 0.14 is 1.18% stronger than GNU 0.13.
> 
> This might be misleading - as in suggesting the new weights are
> definitely stronger than Snowie. This is only 0ply. The 2ply
difference
> is probably much much smaller, and that is what is being typically
tested.

I can remove this, it is no problem, or add what the results were
derived from. Could you test the 2-ply nets to see how much they differ
by? It would also give an estimate for future versions on how much
improvement one could expect from the 2-ply.

> 
>     GNU is made of 3 neural nets: ...
> 
> I would think this is sort of "implementation detail". It would
probably
> make very little to the casual reader. Perhaps it should be relocated?
> 
>     the crashed net, which is for backgame situations,
> 
> Might be misleading as well. Crashed is for situations were at least
one
> side has no more than 6 "active" checkers, i.e. the rest are either
> buried or borne out.

Ok, I'll rewrite this part and send you the modification. Sorry for the
download trouble BTW.

> 
>    There are also programs using the GNU engine running on PalmOS and
> Windows CE.
> 
> I am not aware of any Palm versions? Are you talking about a Full
GNUbg?
> Where is it? If you mean my bglight project, it is just PocektPC.

I indeed thought your project was for the Palm, my mistake.

                                        Albert

> Albert Silver wrote:
> > Here is what should be the final version. I'm short of time now so
I'll
> > only send the PDF conversion to Nardy later. If anyone else prefers
that
> > format, let me know. All of Nardy's comments were taken into account
> > (thanks) and I also added labels to the toolbar figure and I updated
the
> > table of contents. If there are any errors, corrections, or
omissions,
> > please let me know.
> >
> >                                             Albert
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