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If I recall correctly their neural network was mostly trained to judge board situations accurately. So yes, I suppose you could consider it statistics. Of cour
by contravariant 7y ago
If I recall correctly their neural network was mostly trained to judge board situations accurately. So yes, I suppose you could consider it statistics.
Of course the situation becomes rather interesting when you start training it against itself, but you're still fundamentally trying to find a good statistic to estimate your chances of winning.
- drdeca 7y agoMy understanding of “statistics” is that it is about either probability distributions, or gleaning some aggregate information from an existing data set which is taken to be either a (not necessarily uniform) random sample from some distribution, or describing the entire population. Perhaps I am not using the right definition of “statistics”?
- contravariant 7y agoGiven that your definition of statistics contains nested levels of 'either or', it shouldn't really surprise you that it doesn't really generalize well. More generally I'd consider statistics to be the applied version of probability theory. Of course in this case the very thing they were trying to compute also fit the definition of a 'statistic'. If you consider this is to be too broad, then keep in mind that it's simply better when you can apply the concepts and techniques from probability theory to more things.