Because the proper construction of statistical evidence against alleged cheaters requires such technical expertise, Regan believes that it’s necessary to establish a centralized authority responsible for the administration of anti-cheating protocol.
Regan also believes that a centralized authority can best fix public confusion about what constitutes scientific versus unscientific procedure. It’s too easy for people with a poor methodology to spread rumors online.
Ok, this seems reasonable.
Eventually he would like to oversee the conversion of his 35,000 lines of C++ code into a Windows-driven program or portable app. “I see other people using my methods but not necessarily using my program,” he says.
35,000 lines! After skimming the article, I'd hope it could be done much more compactly in a high-level language, say, Julia, Clojure, or Python.
Maybe it was a typo. I also noticed that the article says "...the number of possible unique chess positions [is] roughly 1043," which is a typo. 1043 should be 10^43.
It's not clear to me whether that includes the evaluation engine or whether he's communicating with an external process. If it's the latter then I agree that it seems like a lot.
.. or C++. He's obviously a very bright guy but not necessarily a coder; there might be a lot of cut and paste in there, code for things that already exist in std, etc etc.
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Ok, this seems reasonable.
35,000 lines! After skimming the article, I'd hope it could be done much more compactly in a high-level language, say, Julia, Clojure, or Python.
Maybe it was a typo. I also noticed that the article says "...the number of possible unique chess positions [is] roughly 1043," which is a typo. 1043 should be 10^43.
Not to mention their error in claiming that NP problems were unsolvable.
It's not clear to me whether that includes the evaluation engine or whether he's communicating with an external process. If it's the latter then I agree that it seems like a lot.
.. or C++. He's obviously a very bright guy but not necessarily a coder; there might be a lot of cut and paste in there, code for things that already exist in std, etc etc.