Do u really feel an average/top driver can strategize during the race?
The race engineer has X10 data, X10 mental bandwidth, and X10 domain practice (that's his day job!)
There all these radio moments (Hamilton "how r we behind them?" after spinning out in Germany etc) .. which really makes it clear that the driver focus is very local (both spatially and temporally), as it should be!
Why was MCTS (or some search variant) not used in alphastar ?
(Sure, u need to somehow roll forward and rollback the StarCraft world, but for Atari using MCTS was shown to be an order of magnitude more efficient )
I have also seen comments that the search width is too large, or maybe academic purity consideration?
I am working on a heavily customized java7/jvm7 internals engine. So I am years behind.
But arent most of the changes in the language / internal implementation ?
I agree however that trying to chase commodity processors is a fools errand.