Re: Re : Re : [computer-go] Is MC-UCT really scalable ... is a troll

2008-01-23 Thread Russell Wallace
On Jan 23, 2008 3:44 AM, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 This is still nonsense.   UCT in actual real world PRACTICE responds
 dramatically to more hardware,  how can you say it's not clear whether
 it's scalable in practice?

In fairness, he didn't say that. What he said was that our belief
regarding whether or not UCT scales in practice, should be based on
tests on real hardware (which appear to give an answer in the
affirmative), rather than on a mathematical proof of what happens in
the limit as computer time tends to infinity (because what happens in
the limit as time tends to infinity, doesn't necessarily have much
bearing on what happens on real hardware; so tests are more
informative).
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Re: [computer-go] New engine? From a Chess programmer perspective.

2007-12-02 Thread Russell Wallace
On Dec 2, 2007 2:02 PM, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 There was a thread on CCC (computer chess) about Go. An interesting post was
 made that linked to Leela, a Go engine and GUI written by the author of Deep
 Sjeng which is a moderate to high level chess engine.

  http://www.sjeng.org/leela.html

 Have any of you bought or tested the full version or have any more info?
 Seems interesting.

I haven't seen Leela before, but the claim of high dan-level
performance on 9x9 is certainly interesting. Do you have a link to the
CCC thread?
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Re: [computer-go] Drunken sailor on payday

2007-11-22 Thread Russell Wallace
On Nov 22, 2007 12:13 PM, Jacques BasaldĂșa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am still waiting to
 meet the first person who answers affirmatively to the question:
 Have you ever paid for a program written in Java?

*raises hand*

You need wait no longer ^.^ - and that was back in the days when Swing
sucked. It's much better these days.
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