Re: [Bug-gnubg] Forwarded suggestion from the website

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 26 Oct 2004 (23:58 +0200), ??ystein Johansen wrote:
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> Maik Stiebler wrote:
> Congratulations to this new improvement!
> Have you considered to use the pruning net as evaluation engine for
> variance reduction on 0-ply rollouts? Right now I don't use VR on those
> because it's so expensive relative to the rollout itself. If the pruning
> net is good enough, that might be much more effective.
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> Heeeeyyyy! What a great idea!
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> I know for sure I won't have the capacity to take this task right now.
> (Even though I would love to). Anyone?
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> It sure sounds like a great idea to me!

I thought Joseph said they only come into play on .gt. 0 ply rollouts
(they speed up the selection of candidates for the next ply), so
they'd have no effect on zero ply rollouts.

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