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8 Post author: ESRogs 14 September 2015 07:38PM

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Comment author: TheMajor 16 September 2015 09:53:40AM 0 points [-]

Should in this case the probabilistic search not already be comparable in performance with non-naive depth-based search, if most of the sophistication in the latter just serves to approximate the former? Since the probabilistic search seems relatively simple the argument above seems insufficient to explain why probabilistic search is not used more widely, right?