"An efficient manager has a high evaluation quotient. A machine has a better one, in chess and a number of increasing fields. The problem now is to keep up with what the machines are learning!"
-Denis Rothman
Evaluation is one of the major keys to efficient decision making in all fields: from chess, production management, rocket launching, and self-driving cars to data center calibration, software development, and airport schedules. Chess engines are not high-level deep-learning-based software. They rely heavily on evaluations and calculations. They evaluate much better than humans, and there is a lot to learn from them. The question now is to know whether any human can beat...