6D out of the blue is no mean achievement,... 60+ years ago, the market for gizmos in UK was flooded with cheap Japanese copies of European products; but whilst innovation and product quality improvement by European manufacturers faded as their fat cat owners complacently went cocacola-soaked soft, Japanese industry, unlike its USA counterpart, was listening attentively to the wise words of W.Edwards Deming (eg [1,2]) and beginning to improve the reliability, efficiency and efficacy of its products, and by about 30 years ago, Japanese engineering was the equal or better of even German technology.
Korean, Formosan and Hong Kong e-tigers followed hotfoot in Japan's footsteps, and now the same thing is happening in China, so we can expect to see a vast array of Shanghai-teenager-bedroom-produced shanghaied miniclones of Alpha, most with unimaginative copycat names like Beta, Eta, Theta, AIota etc, skulking around the corridors of the Internet, all of which will at first be cheap imitations, but sowing the seeds of in-house and inter-house R&D quality circles, so that their own descendants will before very long become to Californian IT as Japanese fuel-efficient reliable engines are to US unreliable gas-guzzlers. Watch out Google Cloud byte-guzzlers, teenage rebels with the lessons of Deming in their notebooks, who have learned from history and from the sterling modus operandi of Steve Jobs and Uncle Tom Cobley et al, are on their way up your Jacob's ladder... 1. Charles A. Barclay (1993) Quality Strategy and TQM Policies: Empirical Evidence. MIR: Management International Review Vol. 33, Strategic Quality Management. 2. http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/total-quality-management/overview/deming-points.html >> Anybody knows who is the author of BetaGo? It is playing with account >> GoBeta on KGS, and is 6d. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
