Re: [computer-go] Grid Cosmos

2007-03-15 Thread Brian Slesinsky
On 3/14/07, Darren Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Is anyone using C# on linux? I thought C# was standardized so I expected to find something, but google is only giving me articles from 2001... I haven't used it, but the Mono project has reimplemented C# and many of the .Net platform

Re: [computer-go] Grid Cosmos

2007-03-15 Thread Don Dailey
What does C# bring that Java doesn't? My understanding is that C# is Microsofts way to try to supplant Java as a standard, not a clone but extremely similar. What advantages over Java? It is a higher level language? - Don On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 07:04 -0700, Jim O'Flaherty, Jr. wrote:

Re: [computer-go] Grid Cosmos

2007-03-15 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
Don, Your question is fertile ground for a language/platform argument fest (flame-war?). :) From the 10,000 foot view, I see very little difference/advantage between the Java language/platform and the C#/.Net language/platform. As they say, though, The difference is in the details. My

Re: [computer-go] Grid Cosmos

2007-03-15 Thread David Doshay
One of the people who worked on SlugGo a long time ago is a big C# fan. He used Mono to get some of his C# stuff working in our OS X environment. Cheers, David On 15, Mar 2007, at 12:00 AM, Brian Slesinsky wrote: On 3/14/07, Darren Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Is anyone using C#

Re: [computer-go] MC heuristics not working

2007-03-15 Thread Chris Fant
If you allow multi-stone suicide, it will probably avoid a test that may be expensive in your program, and so it may turn out to be a net improvement in strength per second - especially if your testing proves that it doesn't hurt in any measurable way. Doing that test does make my C# engine

Re: [computer-go] MC heuristics not working

2007-03-15 Thread Don Dailey
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 19:38 -0400, Chris Fant wrote: If you allow multi-stone suicide, it will probably avoid a test that may be expensive in your program, and so it may turn out to be a net improvement in strength per second - especially if your testing proves that it doesn't hurt in any

Re: [computer-go] MC heuristics not working

2007-03-15 Thread Chris Fant
Yes, it plays better when allowing multi-stone suicides but still prohibiting single-stone suicides. I'm still wondering if anyone else has tried this. On 3/15/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 19:38 -0400, Chris Fant wrote: If you allow multi-stone suicide, it