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<p>New thread: why virtual waves help</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>So, I am wondering why virtual waves help. I think the reason is that many robots make a movement decision every turn, rather than every shot. Excluding that as a reason, as far as I can see, the reasoning behind them would be: &quot;My enemy needs to move at least when I shoot. The GFs he ends up at while moving are related to the final GF. So training based on the intermediate GFs will approximate the final GF.&quot; My problems with these reasons are a) I don't like making my gun better for what happens to be common (making a decision about movement every turn) rather than about what should be common. b) I don't want to approximate the final GF, I want to use it exactly.<br /> <br /> Am I missing anything about virtual waves that would explain why they are a good idea?<br /> <br /> My current plan is to remove them, and then, since my data set will be about 15 times smaller, I could add 5 or so new dimensions like &quot;average turn rate in the past 10 turns&quot;, etc. that would hopefully make up for the lost data.</div>

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