Re: [Bug-gnubg] random dice generator? hahahaaa

[tchow]

Rich Heimlich wrote:
> We actually helped develop one of the few iterations that went beyond 
> that
> approach. It required us to literally rate and weight every single word 
> in
> the Scrabble dictionary. It took months to do. I'll never forget it, 
> but
> the results were amazing. However, the next publisher that got the 
> rights
> went right back to the old way because it was cheaper and faster.

This is very interesting.

The analogous problem in backgammon is to determine what a "difficult" 
decision for a human being is.  Until now I've thought that this was too 
hard to program into GNU, but maybe it isn't.  Perhaps it doesn't take 
that much hand-marked data to train the AI what sort of decisions are 
hard for a human and what sorts aren't.  Someone ought to try this.

It's a little surprising to me that the next publisher went back to the 
old way...unless you're saying that they acquired the rights only to the 
Scrabble name, and not the database of hand-crafted ratings that you 
built?

Tim