[Computer-go] semeai example of winning rate

[Brian Sheppard]

>It would be nice, if the programmers reported more on their failures, so 
>that the same promising dead end isn't entered multiple times.

It would be nice to hear about more experiments.

There are three classes of researchers, listed from best to worst:

1) Undergraduates. These are the best researchers, because they must write a
paper regardless of whether they succeed or fail. So you always find out
what happened.

2) Other academics. Generally, these researchers only publish when they have
a success. If we are lucky, we might find out about something that failed,
but only if there is a success to report.

3) Non-academics. We will never tell our secrets. An academic will have to
discover them independently, and then we may insinuate that we tested that
idea years ago, but discarded it because we found something better.

:-)

I don't see much downside in trying ideas multiple times. In this field, the
"devil is in the details." Let people try multiple things, in many ways,
from many angles. They might find something worthwhile. At a minimum they
will learn something.

Brian