I also have many modern computers at disposal if we proceed with the
training

El lun., 19 oct. 2020 a las 16:33, Turker Eflanli (<[email protected]>)
escribió:

> I have three computers that can do approximately 250,000 static
> evaluations / second each: I am happy to help in any way I can
>
> Turker Eflanli
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 2:29 PM Øystein Schønning-Johansen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 7:52 PM Joseph Heled <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I can comment on that: my experience from 20 years ago was that at some
>>> stage adding positions started to hurt the net performance. It is always a
>>> balancing act between getting the common/regular positions right and
>>> getting the edge cases right. I think that whatever you do you might want
>>> to start fresh and see how my "method" (as you outlined above) can be
>>> improved.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I think I remember that you have mentioned that before. The
>> reasoning behind it might be due to the size (hence capacity) of the neural
>> network. Maybe, with a bigger and deeper neural network, and modern
>> training algorithms, a bigger training set can be used and still get better
>> performance. As you say, there is a sweet spot between getting the common
>> positions right, and then getting the edge cases right.
>>
>> Yes, the outlined method is (of course) Joseph's idea. In my view, he is
>> the best backgammon neural network trainer. Maybe I should start this
>> process on my own, and gain some experience before involving a community
>> with effort. It will be really unfortunate if we waste resources on a
>> braindead idea.
>>
>> How can the outlined idea be improved? Before I get into that, I think I
>> need some experience, but maybe see if there's some special kind of
>> positions that's over or under represented in the set, and then
>> automagically (in some way) detect these?
>>
>> -Øystein
>>
>

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