On March 31 the author of the Rybka program, Vasik Rajlich, and his family moved from Warsaw, Poland to a new appartment in Budapest, Hungary. The next day, in spite of the bustle of moving boxes and setting up phone and Internet connections Vas, kindly agreed to the following interview, which had been planned some months ago.
So … April 1.
Our algorithm works in an iterative manner – it first forms a hypothesis, and then it confirms or alters that hypothesis over a number of passes using a non-deterministic Turing Machine program running across the clusters.
A “Turing Machine program”? Really? (And there are other awfully suspicious-looking things in that paragraph. Strategy stealing, in a highly asymmetrical chess position?)
Not anywhere near conclusive, but pretty strongly suggestive. I think this is a hoax.
I am suspicious.
So … April 1.
A “Turing Machine program”? Really? (And there are other awfully suspicious-looking things in that paragraph. Strategy stealing, in a highly asymmetrical chess position?)
Not anywhere near conclusive, but pretty strongly suggestive. I think this is a hoax.
Aha. It’s a hoax, all right.
Damn. They got me good. I think I’ll leave the posts up to shame myself.
You know, you can’t actually build one of these, at least not without exponentially growing resources...