[Cs5500] Baby avatar ranked higher than teacher avatar?

[Madhuvanthi Balasubramanian]

Professor,

Yes it is fair to say that avatars who scored higher than the baby avatar
played really well.
The game was fair yesterday and I think ( and wish! ) there are no cases
where the outcome could have been otherwise.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Karl Lieberherr <lieber at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> Hi Karan and Madhu:
>
> thank you for the explanation. That makes sense.
>
> Is it reasonable that all who are above the baby avatar get an A for this
> tournament?
>
> I plan to pose the following challenge to the students:
>
> If there is claim that was refuted/strengthened/agreed and there is a
> winner and a loser
> but the evaluation is not fair, send me a message with the following
> information:
>
> Tournament and game name, e.g., 5150 vs reptar2, the provided instance and
> solution and a reason why you think the outcome should have been the other
> way.
>
> Do you think we will get a response?
>
> -- Karl
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Madhuvanthi Balasubramanian <
> balasubramanian.m at husky.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Professor,
>>
>> We let the teacher avatar propose values from 0.01 all the way until 0.61
>> to test the refuting and strengthening skills of other avatars. Since the
>> teacher avatar proposed sub-optimal claims most of the time and the baby
>> avatar proposes random claims, there are chances the baby avatar may have
>> proposed better claims most times. (The teacher avatar could have proposed
>> 0.61 only once whereas the baby avatar's probability of proposing a good
>> claim is much higher).
>>
>> Again, we let the teacher avatar's claim precision be 2 digits just to
>> test our new CompareTo method. I guess the test worked fine and all avatars
>> that used more accurate precisions as you say, scored higher than the
>> teacher avatar.
>>
>> We ran the teacher avatar more as a testing avatar than as a perfect
>> avatar, because we figured out there are many such perfect avatars around
>> to do the teacher avatar's job.
>>
>>  On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Karl Lieberherr <lieber at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Madhu:
>>>
>>> thank you for running the tournament last night. What a turnout!
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/courses/se-courses/cs5500/f11/projects/project-page/MMG_CountingTournament_Nov29/Tournament%20-%20MMG_CountingTournament_Nov29.htm
>>>
>>> I have two questions for which I would like to get an explanation:
>>>
>>> Why is the baby avatar ranked higher than the teacher avatar.
>>>
>>> Why do the best student avatars collect twice as many points as the
>>> teacher avatar.
>>> I guess the reason is that the students use a more accurate way to
>>> evaluate the expressions than the teacher avatar. Or is there another
>>> reason?
>>>
>>> -- Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>>  Thanks
>> - Madhu
>>
>>
>


-- 
 Thanks
- Madhu
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