Hi Robert, we met for the first time at the EGC 2000 in Berlin-Strausberg. I know your special ways of argumenting - and think that you are an enrichment both for the go world and for the computer go scene.
But ... > Without clarity, progress is delayed. Every > professor at university will confirm this to you. as a professor of Mathematics (for 22 years now) I severely question this point of view. Of course, when a student starts studying Mathematics (s)he learns in the first two semesters that everything has to be defined waterproof. Later, in particular when (s)he comes near to doing own research, you have to make compromises - otherwise you will never make much progress. For research in general it is good to have waves: moving forward in informal thoughts and handwaving proofs (and maybe even with a glass of beer in the hand) - then having another phase where precision and clarity is on the agenda. And back to informal mode ... Also a team of mathematicians will be most successful when they have handwavers, dreamdancers, bean-counters, and formalists. Accept that the world is multi-facetted, even our small computer go community. Cheers (without a beer at hand right now), Ingo. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
