Good comment, gave me a feeling “oh, ups, why didn’t I?” for a while. I think having the Elo-like algorithm as a baseline to compare to would have been a good thing to have in any case. But there is something that the NN can do that the Elo-like algorithm can’t; generalization. Every “new” element (or even an interpolation of older elements) will get the “initial score” (like 1500 in chess) in Elo, while the NN can exploit similarities between the new element and older elements.
Hey Charlie!
Good comment, gave me a feeling “oh, ups, why didn’t I?” for a while. I think having the Elo-like algorithm as a baseline to compare to would have been a good thing to have in any case. But there is something that the NN can do that the Elo-like algorithm can’t; generalization. Every “new” element (or even an interpolation of older elements) will get the “initial score” (like 1500 in chess) in Elo, while the NN can exploit similarities between the new element and older elements.