>Such a table has 47 million entries in 19x19 go and over half a million in 9x9 >go. It require an enormous amount of data to fill such a table with enough >samples to not be almost meaningless statistically.
Maybe I'm missing something in the context of this statement, but I don't think the size of the table is necessarily a problem when considering the amount of data required to ensure the entries are statistically meaningful: it depends so much on the distribution of the data. For example, it sounds like those sizes are based on all the entries that could possibly occur: perhaps in practice only a relatively small number of entries actually occur, and the statistics of those occurrences can be estimated reliably (reliably enough to add value) from a relatively small number of games (similar things happen when using n-grams for statistical language modelling). Simon Lucas http://csee.essex.ac.uk/staff/lucas/ _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
