• saimen@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    But the point is you can actually calculate everything and have all the information. Medicine is always about incomplete information, either because the data isn’t there or certain things aren’t even known.

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      2 days ago

      You literally can’t, though. That’s my point. The number of positions is just to high to store. Not even every computer in the world put together can store every legal chess position.

      So in both cases the computer has to make an educated guess. Now the top engines use neural networks to make better guesses instead of brute forcing positions

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        2 days ago

        There’s a difference in making an educated guess in a system with known rules or unknown rules.

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          1 day ago

          Only to you. To a computer it’s the same thing, just some weights being adjusted by data