David, I didn't intend to offend any person in this list, sorry for short of my words. I'm just trying to prevent people misunderstand the truth.
Hideki David Doshay: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >It is of no consequence what words WE use to describe this. Journalists >will ALWAYS print it that way. If you use too many big words or ideas >that are accurate but convoluted, you will either not get the publicity >or the journalist will make up something even more absurd. > > >Sorry if I am a bit over sensitive ... getting misquoted, my work >ignored, >and getting credit for the work of others in this past week has me very >aware of how these people work. They are on a deadline and meeting the >deadline with a headline that captures a lay reader's attention is the >only >priority. I know how my attempts to get a correction were greeted ... > >Cheers, >David > > > >On 11, Aug 2008, at 8:37 AM, Hideki Kato wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to say first "Congratulations!" to MoGo team. >> >> I have a question. Why do you all call the game as "human vs. >> computer"? It's obviously a match between Kim 8p and MoGo, a program >> developped by MoGo team, running on a supercomputer. >> >> As both MoGo and the supercomputer were developped by human, the game >> is clearly (a special type of) human vs. human. >> >> I'm afraid it may raise unnecessary emotional thoughts of against >> computers among people. It might be better to call such a game >> something of a style "a professinal Goplayer vs. a program with its >> developper(s)" to emphasize the program was created by human. >> >> -Hideki > >_______________________________________________ >computer-go mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kato) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
