RE: computer-go: Computer Go hardware

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

My 2 cents worth: the strongest programs of today are only marginally stronger than they were 10 years ago, when computers were 100 times slower than they are today. So I think it's fair to say the efficiency index value would actually be (significantly) lower than 0.01. So your value 0.7 is quite a wild guess indeed. If I would have to make a wild guess, I'd rather put it in the 0.001 to 0.0001 range. And since the programs don't get stronger with more processing power (not yet, anyway), the index is subjective to getting halved about every 18 months.

 

    Mark

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We may define a concept, calling it the 'logic
efficiency index'. For a best possible program, the index value is 1. I'll
make a wild quess here. Today's best program has an index value about 0.7. A
related question is, for Go, what's the relation between the index value and
the amount of programming?   

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