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Is Snowie still relevant?

Posted By: Jack Mack
Date: Wednesday, 15 March 2017, at 8:43 a.m.

In Response To: Is Snowie still relevant? (Bill Finneran)

"Snowie is OBE(overtaken by events.... I.e. XG)"

I'm not sure if OBE applies here and if it did, the "events" may have been outside of XG (in other words, not simply a better bot having come along).

And I don't know how could one compare XG to Snowie in order to declare one superior to the other by measuring both bots using Snowie or using XG, since both bots integrate retro-formulas based on "arbitrary" constants.

I believe that to overcome this bias issue and simplify the process, they took what GNUBG and XG agreed on as "true" and rolled-out the positions they disagreed on, still using one of the two bots.

Since the rollouts are biased in themselves, you can see that this results in a "multi-ply" :) bias/inaccuracy/error.

On top of it all, if XG is a copy of GNUBG, which is my conclusion based on offered observations, then the entire comparison becomes worthless.

"I did sell a shrink wrapped copy on e-bay in 2011 for ~ $270 when XG cost $50"

Without any conspiracy theories, I think Snowie could have drastically reduced its price and competed with XG but they probably didn't do that in fairness to their past customers who had already paid those $270's.

Claiming that XG is better than Snowie is similar to claiming that more accurate calculations of "sub-orbits of retrograde planets in the geocentric universe" was scientific progress...

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