[Cs5500] strengthening

[karan bhat]

isn't  this a baby avatar and generating Strengthening like this
should not matter ?, also Professor wants the strengthening out which
can be mentioned in the config file.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Madhuvanthi Balasubramanian
<balasubramanian.m at husky.neu.edu> wrote:
> Haoran,
> Ideally, you could strengthen by any value, but using this expression
> "claim.getQuality() - scg_cfg.getMinStrengthening()" lets the avatars learn
> by improving the quality in small increments, and also prevents them from
> strengthening with an invalid quality. I believe this could be the idea
> behind having this expression to calculate quality.
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Haoran Wu <haoran at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> For MinStrengthening problem, can we directly change the
>> DEFAULT_SCG_CONFIG in SCGConfig, and make
>> minStrengthening: 0.
>>
>> And we should tell undergrad, when generate Strengthening object, we are
>> passing a double variable as
>> argument(which is newQuality of claim), not limit to "claim.getQuality() -
>> scg_cfg.getMinStrengthening()".
>>
>> Do you guys think it works?
>>
>> Regards
>> Haoran
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Karl Lieberherr" <lieber at ccs.neu.edu>
>> To: "Managing Software Development" <cs5500 at lists.ccs.neu.edu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 9:35:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: [Cs5500] strengthening
>>
>>
>> When my undergraduate class saw this code in the baby avatar:
>>
>> return new Strengthening(claim.getQuality() -
>> scg_cfg.getMinStrengthening());
>>
>> they noted immediately that such a constant scg_cfg.getMinStrengthening()
>> is a bad idea.
>> We know why and we have eliminated the requirement to limit strengthening
>> to be at least
>> scg_cfg.getMinStrengthening().
>>
>> I want to make sure that the strengthening rule is no longer checked.
>>
>> I saw Haoran on the way home and he informally confirmed.
>>
>> -- Karl
>>
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> --
>  Thanks
> - Madhu
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