The square root is just as arbitrary as capping at 50. The only function I really like is capping at 0.5.
Álvaro. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Don Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Truncating to [-50 .. 50] seems rather arbitrary to me too. There should > either be no truncation at all, or if the concept is to not "over reward" > big wins it should be replaced by a function such as the square root of the > score. In this way you get progressively less credit for bigger and > bigger wins. > > Don > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Rémi Coulom <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Why truncate to [-50..50] ? >> >> On 10 juil. 2012, at 22:20, Łukasz Lew wrote: >> >> > Fellow Go enthusiasts, >> > I would like you invite you to: >> > >> > Kaś Cup - a peculiar computer Go tournament. >> > >> > There will be prize pool of total 100$, yay! >> > It will take place on 5th of August on KGS. >> > >> > The peculiarity will come from the scoring method. >> > While this will be a Round Robin, the score for each game won't be +-1 >> > point, >> > but the exact result of the game truncated to the [-50 .. 50] interval. >> > >> > One last rule is that participants may not use more than 4 cores of CPU >> > power. >> > >> > Nick kindly agreed to organize and look after the tournament for which >> > I am grateful. >> > Also he is in charge of choosing a ruleset and time settings. >> > >> > Thank you and let us know if you will participate. >> > Łukasz >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Computer-go mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
