[Computer-go] FineArt

2018-10-17 Thread Michael Alford
A friend sent me the link below, it may interest some of you. Be aware it's 40mins, and there are a few audio blips after the 24min mark. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHJ2BnFx8Ak=IwAR2MQgAkJAnRluJRO9eBD2hjzwmkphjVn1e7EaZ5rlUzpexTWwMAfRnUtG0 |

[Computer-go] AI Reasoning

2018-07-15 Thread Michael Alford
Links to this showed up in my inbox the other day , thought it might be of interest to some in the group: [ https://deepmind.com/blog/measuring-abstract-reasoning/ | https://deepmind.com/blog/measuring-abstract-reasoning/ ] ___ Computer-go mailing

[Computer-go] AI Reasoning

2018-07-15 Thread Michael Alford
Links to this showed up in my inbox the other day , thought it might be of interest to some in the group: [ https://deepmind.com/blog/measuring-abstract-reasoning/ | https://deepmind.com/blog/measuring-abstract-reasoning/ ] ___ Computer-go mailing

Re: [Computer-go] Breakthrough: FineArt beating Ke Jie with 2 Handicap Stones

2018-01-21 Thread Michael Alford
erhaps this is (essentially) the collection. > You have to rename the downloaded file to new ending .zip Hope this helps, Ingo. > Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. Januar 2018 um 05:49 Uhr > Von: "Michael Alford" <m...@aracnet.com <mailto:m...@aracnet.com>>

Re: [Computer-go] Breakthrough: FineArt beating Ke Jie with 2 Handicap Stones

2018-01-20 Thread Michael Alford
Could someone make sgf's of these games available? On 1/19/18 10:50 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote: Hello in the round, it seems that Chinese company Tencent with their Go project FineArt has achieved a fantastic breakthrough: According to the website of the International Go Federation the new

[Computer-go] Query

2017-06-07 Thread Michael Alford
I have seen no posts to the group since May 23, not even my own. What is happening? Could someone email me, please? Michael ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

[Computer-go] Functioning?

2017-06-07 Thread Michael Alford
I haven't seen a post to the group in three days. That can't be possible, with the event in China. ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

Re: [Computer-go] What was the final score after the counting of AlphaGo-vs-Ke Jie Game #1?

2017-05-23 Thread Michael Alford
Half point is the result using Japanese komi 6.5, Chinese komi is 7.5, end result is W +1.5 On 5/23/17 12:02 AM, Jim O'Flaherty wrote: I have now heard that AlphaGo one by 0.5 points. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Jim O'Flaherty

Re: [Computer-go] sgf files for world go championship games?

2017-03-24 Thread Michael Alford
I just checked, they are also here: http://www.worldgochampionship.net/english/ On 3/24/17 9:55 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: any one got a pointer to these? thanks ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [Computer-go] sgf files for world go championship games?

2017-03-24 Thread Michael Alford
All the games are still available at WBaduk On 3/24/17 9:55 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: any one got a pointer to these? thanks ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

Re: [Computer-go] Question: Time Table World Championships

2017-03-09 Thread Michael Alford
The last 5 mins are the byoyomi, the number of periods is arbitrary. If the match is 3 hrs, byoyomi starts at 2:55. This is common practice. On 3/9/17 2:54 AM, Darren Cook wrote: English official page has the info. http://www.worldgochampionship.net/english/ Thanks. Is it three hours, with

Re: [Computer-go] ADMIN: Lists Have Moved

2017-01-22 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/22/17 10:50 PM, Xavier Combelle wrote: Strangely enougth I received all the said messages Counting the ADMIN announcement and my original reply, I have received 7 messages. Le 23/01/2017 à 06:20, "Ingo Althöfer" a écrit : ... and also not my own one from 2 minutes ago. I can only

Re: [Computer-go] NATURE: Top 10 people 2016

2016-12-19 Thread Michael Alford
thanks for the link On 12/19/16 10:46 AM, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote: Hi, NATURE published a list of top 10 people in science 2016: http://www.nature.com/news/nature-s-10-1.21157 Demis Hassabis, manager of the AlphaGo team, is in the list. Congratulations! Ingo.

Re: [Computer-go] Poll: Scientific Breakthrough of the Year 2016

2016-11-30 Thread Michael Alford
I was finally able to vote and view results using Chrome on Debian, thanks to all. I voted for AI and forwarded the link :) Michael On 11/30/16 11:55 AM, Arthur Cater wrote: I used Firefox on mac/yosemite and it worked fine. Arthur On Nov 30, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Michael Alford &l

Re: [Computer-go] Poll: Scientific Breakthrough of the Year 2016

2016-11-30 Thread Michael Alford
I've tried Firefox and Safari on Mac, and Firefox and Chrome on Debian. I have used the link and accessed the page from the main page. In all instances the Submit is grayed out and does not function. Michael On 11/30/16 6:06 AM, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote: Hi, I just learned that the magazine

Re: [Computer-go] Deep Zen vs Cho Chikun -- Round 3

2016-11-24 Thread Michael Alford
Hi, Cho Chikun won game3 against DeepZenGo, and won the match. snipped the sgf Regards, Hiroshi Yamashita Michael On 11/24/16 3:46 AM, Xavier Combelle wrote: thanks a lot Le 24/11/2016 à 12:31, Hideki Kato a écrit : Ah, yes. Maybe he didn't push "resign". Hideki Xavier

Re: [Computer-go] Deep Zen vs Cho Chikun -- Round 1

2016-11-19 Thread Michael Alford
As of 8AM Pacific, the game is still up on wbaduk for easy replay, but to save it you need a manager than converts that gibo to sgf. Michael On 11/19/16 5:05 AM, Erik van der Werf wrote: Hi Ingo, The SGF file you sent is malformed (in this case it's only a minor issue for the date field,

Re: [Computer-go] AlphaGo selfplay 3 games

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Alford
I had to download the sgf's and open with the glGo client. On 9/14/16 6:54 AM, Richard Lorentz wrote: After following the link and then playing out one of the games in my browser (Chrome) I don't see the variations. Can anyone help me figure out how to make them visible? Thanks. -Richard

Re: [Computer-go] KGS mixed human-and-bot tournaments

2016-09-01 Thread Michael Alford
. My feeling was the faster the byoyomi\overtime the more it would favor the computer. Is this an error in my thinking? Thanks all Michael On 9/1/16 1:50 AM, Nick Wedd wrote: On 1 September 2016 at 02:23, Michael Alford <m...@aracnet.com <mailto:m...@aracnet.com>> wrote:

[Computer-go] AlphaGo at Congress

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Alford
This was in the ejournal, appended to the bottom of an announcement that Bao Yun would attend: Also, there will ba a Q session right after the AlphaGo team’s keynote address, please submit your questions here

Re: [Computer-go] US Go Congress 2016 "Computer Go Afternoon" invitation

2016-04-15 Thread Michael Alford
On 4/15/16 7:36 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote: Hello Chun Sun, We already have confirmed attendance from the AlphaGo team. one question out of interest: * Who from the AlphaGo tram intends to come to the US Go Congress? * Will they have a demo version of AlphaGo with them? This from the

Re: [Computer-go] (no subject)

2016-04-01 Thread Michael Alford
On 4/1/16 9:40 AM, Petr Baudis wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 07:08:34AM +0200, Robert Jasiek wrote: On 01.04.2016 02:22, djhbrown . wrote: kogo is great for corner openings Kogo contains many mistakes. Too many kyus got their hands on it. It would be better to spend 3+ weeks using kombilo

Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to AlphaGo

2016-03-12 Thread Michael Alford
Give it the hatsuyo-ron :) On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Ingo Althöfer wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Von: "Thomas Wolf" >> A suggestion for possible future games to be arranged between AlphaGo and >> strong players: >> >> Whoever lost shall be given 1 stone or the equivalent of 1/2

Re: [Computer-go] Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search

2016-01-28 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/27/16 12:08 PM, Aja Huang wrote: 2016-01-27 18:46 GMT+00:00 Aja Huang >: Hi all, We are very excited to announce that our Go program, AlphaGo, has beaten a professional player for the first time. AlphaGo beat the European

Re: [Computer-go] Board evaluation using a convolutional neural network

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/15/16 2:07 PM, Michael Sué wrote: Well my point is more in the direction to get a good live-and-death solver, maybe completely independent of the game as a whole. Just train a DNN on some life-and-death collections with solutions, where all of the usual tricks are applied. I think this has

Re: [Computer-go] Computer-go Digest, Vol 71, Issue 22

2015-12-29 Thread Michael Alford
On 12/29/15 4:10 AM, amanda oregon wrote: You can reach the person managing the list at computer-go-ow...@computer-go.org Is veg no longer the manager? --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ___ Computer-go mailing list

[Computer-go] trace

2015-05-23 Thread Michael Alford
Ignore, tracing the route --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

Re: [Computer-go] UEC Cup

2015-03-15 Thread Michael Alford
On 3/15/15 12:39 AM, Hiroshi Yamashita wrote: UEC student won a exhibition game against CrazyStone without handicap. Hiroshi Yamashita ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

[Computer-go] Go AI

2015-02-24 Thread Michael Alford
This link appeared in today's AGA E-journal. It mentions MoGo, Zen, and Crazy Stone. Michael --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [Computer-go] Spring SLOW KGS bot tournament, 19x19

2015-02-24 Thread Michael Alford
On 2/24/15 2:16 PM, Nick Wedd wrote: (I tried to send this message yesterday - but I don't see it in the list archives, so I am sending it again.) Just fyi, I saw it yesterday. The spring SLOW KGS bot tournament will start next Sunday, March 1st, starting at 22:00 UTC, and ending on

Re: [Computer-go] Go AI

2015-02-24 Thread Michael Alford
Apology, forgot the link: http://blog.fogcreek.com/go-and-artificial-intelligence-tech-talk/ On 2/24/15 3:26 PM, Michael Alford wrote: This link appeared in today's AGA E-journal. It mentions MoGo, Zen, and Crazy Stone. Michael --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

[Computer-go] Numenta

2015-02-17 Thread Michael Alford
I thought some of you might be interested in this: http://numenta.com/#hero Here's a short teaser :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojcnwnEzSQ Michael --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ___ Computer-go mailing list

[Computer-go] test

2014-12-10 Thread Michael Alford
test --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

Re: [computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/18/10 3:02 AM, Wolfgang Krames wrote: Hi Benjamin Teuber from Germany works for IGS to make the official client more attractive to western players, e.g. he plans to add a kgs-like-review-tool. You can tell him your wishes (like making igs usable for near blind people) and if possible he

Re: [computer-go] Re: computer-go Digest, Vol 43, Issue 8

2008-02-11 Thread Michael Alford
Don Dailey wrote: I tried Alford's value of 9.5 komi and white is even more happy, showing about 0.547 in the score. I don't believe what Alford says about 9.5 being the correct komi for 9x9.Where does that information come from? Japanese tv games.

Re: [computer-go] Re: computer-go Digest, Vol 43, Issue 8

2008-02-11 Thread Michael Alford
Christoph Birk wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Don Dailey wrote: Is your question whether 7.0 or 8.0 is the best komi? Or do you suspect a different 1/2 komi value is best? I wonder what the true komi is ... I don't know (nobody knows?) if it's fractional or not; eg. for 7x7 it is 9.0.

Re: [computer-go] Where and How to Test the Strong Programs?

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Alford
I have lurked here for a long time, I find this newsletter very interesting, because I play Go, I am not a programmer. I agree with everything Mr Foltand had to say, but would like to add a small bit about IGS ranks. A few years ago, IGS changed its ranking system so as to anchor from the top,