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Deep backgame - a philosophical question.

Posted By: mtuhtan
Date: Wednesday, 17 November 2010, at 8:08 a.m.

In Response To: Deep backgame - a philosophical question. (Timothy Chow)

My impression is that if you stick to the standard neural-net framework, the trouble is that training on these weird positions messes up the weights for "normal" positions.

But, as someone already said, backgames are not that unusual. Yes, they aren't frequent as holding games, but I wouldn't consider them not "normal", rare positions.

Who knows, maybe those messed up weights are closer to "universal backgammon truth" ;)

Messages In This Thread

• Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
  higonefive -- Tuesday, 16 November 2010, at 4:54 p.m.
  • Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
    Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 16 November 2010, at 6:03 p.m.
    • Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
      mtuhtan -- Tuesday, 16 November 2010, at 7:13 p.m.
    • Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
      higonefive -- Tuesday, 16 November 2010, at 7:15 p.m.
      • Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
        Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 17 November 2010, at 12:50 a.m.
        • Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
          higonefive -- Wednesday, 17 November 2010, at 6:38 a.m.
        • Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
          mtuhtan -- Wednesday, 17 November 2010, at 8:08 a.m.
        • Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
          Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 17 November 2010, at 8:44 a.m.
      • Deep backgame - a philosophical question.
        Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 1 December 2010, at 6:01 p.m.
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          higonefive -- Wednesday, 1 December 2010, at 10:33 p.m.
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            higonefive -- Wednesday, 1 December 2010, at 11:16 p.m.