[computer-go] Parallelism and Intel

2007-07-25 Thread Joshua Shriver
Intel just released a threading library under the GPL2 license. http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/ Thought it could be useful for people here who may want to utilize a multi CPU or multi core system. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] Parallelism and Intel

2007-07-25 Thread Darren Cook
Intel just released a threading library under the GPL2 license. http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/ Interesting; I've not got as far as looking at code yet, but a couple of things caught my attention. First this used to be a commercial product and they've switched to open source; so it is

[computer-go] U. of Alberta bots vs. the Poker pros

2007-07-25 Thread grok
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Re: [computer-go] The Problem With Random Playouts

2007-07-25 Thread Don Dailey
Nice article, I love reading articles like that. I didn't see anything there I clearly disagreed with although I was expecting to see this. I think the difference between heavy and light (uniform random) play-outs is fairly fixed. In other words heavy may be some fixed number of ELO points

[computer-go] The Problem With Random Playouts

2007-07-25 Thread Darren Cook
A couple of months back I wrote an article on why I believe UCT with random playouts (as opposed to heavy playouts) will never give a strong computer go program. I've finally got it finished, edited and published: http://dcook.org/compgo/article_the_problem_with_random_playouts.html I'd be