Wiki: Sigma
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Usually though, "skill" is used to covertly mean "match the game exactly to my level of competence." Anyone who is at all worse than me should fail utterly (and humorously!) and anyone better is clearly too caught up in the game and their opinions shouldn't count.
QUOTE sigma tends towards zero until it settles to a value of approximately 1 after a few hundred games.[/quote]
Doesn't that mean it "tends towards one"?
Or just "sigma decreases until it settles towards approximately one"?
Doesn't that mean it "tends towards one"?
Or just "sigma decreases until it settles towards approximately one"?
Usually though, "skill" is used to covertly mean "match the game exactly to my level of competence." Anyone who is at all worse than me should fail utterly (and humorously!) and anyone better is clearly too caught up in the game and their opinions shouldn't count.
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Sarge is having problems with his internet connection. I've pointed him to here and here's his partial reply:
23:48 < Sgt_Baker> Sigma tends towards zero, and is dragged in the opposite direction by the 'dynamics' variable, which is added to all sigmas per game. The 'Dynamics' variable is 25/300 (0.08333...) and prevents sigma from reaching zero (a sigma of zero would prevent a player from receiving *any* Mu updates). Once delta sigma falls below the magnitude of 'dynamics', sigma stabilises on it's value of between about 0.8 and 1, depending on the
[Typoes were fixed in the progress of copy paste from IRC]
PS: Gotta love how a new aspect of AllegSkill pops up at every other step /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />
23:48 < Sgt_Baker> Sigma tends towards zero, and is dragged in the opposite direction by the 'dynamics' variable, which is added to all sigmas per game. The 'Dynamics' variable is 25/300 (0.08333...) and prevents sigma from reaching zero (a sigma of zero would prevent a player from receiving *any* Mu updates). Once delta sigma falls below the magnitude of 'dynamics', sigma stabilises on it's value of between about 0.8 and 1, depending on the
[Typoes were fixed in the progress of copy paste from IRC]
PS: Gotta love how a new aspect of AllegSkill pops up at every other step /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />
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