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Cubeless games in cubeful rollouts

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Sunday, 4 September 2011, at 6:37 p.m.

In Response To: Cubeless games in cubeful rollouts (Daniel Murphy)

Daniel wrote:

So I'm not sure whether, after further thought, your preference is to have one rollout that report both cubeful statistics and possibly misleading and/or wrong "pseudocubeless" statistics, or if you'd rather have a bot do two separate rollouts, one cubeful and one cubeless.

What do you think?

Two separate rollouts, one cubeful and one cubeless, for sure. Search the archives using the keywords "druthers" and "chow".

In your particular example here, if I understand it correctly, the pseudocubeless results "luckily" coincide with cubeless results. In general, though, since pseudocubeless numbers don't coincide with cubeless numbers, and it's usually not so easy to tell when they luckily happen to coincide, I still think it's ridiculously primitive in today's world to use pseudocubeless numbers as a surrogate for cubeless numbers. For those who want cubeless numbers, why not give them cubeless numbers?

Still, that's a secondary recommendation. My primary recommendation is to create an option for viewing actual statistics. If the majority of other people prefer pseudocubeless statistics to true cubeless statistics because the former are slightly faster to compute, then I'll shake my head in incredulity, but I won't oppose giving people what they want.

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