Superleaves ..... those are what get swept up by rakehells ... right?

(insert groan here)

Eugene Deon wrote:
>
> I've been trying to tune my leave estimation strategy by solving for 
> the exact values of my commonly considered estimation variables as to 
> minimize the sum of squared errors between my strategy estimates and 
> all the leaves in Quackle's "superleaves" file.
>  
> So far my variables include only:
> -single letter values
> -double/triple/quad-letter penalties
> -vowel/consonant imbalance penalties
> -bonuses for number of tiles in CANISTER
> -a couple of letter pair values (QU, YY, IY, FF, ING)
>  
> The results aren't acceptable yet.  21,000 of 148,000 five or fewer 
> letter racks have errors over 5.  But I would like to keep the number 
> of terms managable if possible.
>  
> Has anyone else done a similar analysis?  Are complete details of 
> Maven's letter pair values available somewhere?
>  
> Thanks,
> Eugene d'Eon
>
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