The terminology is spot on for Alef's (or those of any other computer, electronic or biological) imaginations of possible continuations.lightvector wrote:in MCTS, a "simulation" ... means one pass from the root down to a leaf
win% = x of a position means, purely and simply, the machine computes that the probability of black winning is x%. This is a function of all its simulations starting from that position.etymonline wrote: simulation (n.)
mid-14c., "a false show, false profession," from Old French simulation "pretence" and directly from Latin simulationem (nominative simulatio) "an imitating, feigning, false show, hypocrisy," noun of action from past participle stem of simulare "imitate," from stem of similis "like, resembling, of the same kind" (see similar). Meaning "a model or mock-up for purposes of experiment or training" is from 1954.
Probability means... (surely you know that?)