On 22-jan-08, at 12:51, Don Dailey wrote:
In this discussion I observed someone like this, who just attacked 9x9 go, UCT, the feasibility of an interesting study and everyone with time invested in exploring UCT and Monte Carlo. Someone naturally tried to defend and the defense is the thing that offended you?
No, it did not offend me personally. What irritated me was what I referred to as 'putting words in someone elses mouth'. It feels like Erik is purposefully trying to offend, both in his answer to Petri and in his later answer to me. I think there's no need to try to offend people.
But you probably touch on the real thing: people do have invested a lot of time in this and then someone comes and says "but I'm only interested in results for 19x19". If you think that is ignorant then you can either try to point out his error or you ignore him. Trying to be offensive doesn't go anywhere and earns no respect from me.
Personally I think 9x9 is good for trying out ideas. But in the end, if it doesn't play well on 19x19 then I don't care one bit how well it plays on 9x9. Just my opinion of course.
Mark
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