Hello Darren, > I'm still in Tokyo, and fine. (People in Tohoku have serious problems, > and people around Fukushima have a different kind of serious problem.)
Good to hear that you are fine. > Staying on-topic for this list, the biggest problem for computer go > development is lack of power, particularly this summer when there won't > be enough electricity for air conditioning. But you personally are in the fortunate situation to have experience with cloud computing (from the London match). > > I want to encourage them: If you have the feeling > > that people here from the list may be able to help > > you in some way or the other, please let us know. > > (To answer your question less glibly, I don't think there is much people > can do to help those in the real trouble, but the thought is appreciated.) My offer was meant both for immediate help, but also for longterm or later help. Three pieces for thought, related to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophy: (i) In the late 1980's I was assistant in the math faculty of Bielefeld University. Around 1989 we had a guest from Moscow, Prof. Levenshtein (coding theory). He told me: "In russia radiation counters are not available to normal people. We want to measure radiation." and asked: "Can you help us by providing connections to German companies which produce # elements for such radiation counters?" Together with "Bielefelder Umwelt-Zentrum" I was able to help him within three days. (ii) Still nowadays (25 years after 1986) there is still pollution by radiation in certain parts of Belarussia and Ukraine. Regularly in the summer holidays large groups of school children come from there to Germany to live in guest families, where there get food, water, juice, ... without radiation. Friends of "us" have two such guests almost every year. (iii) In september 2010 I was in Minsk (capital of Belarussia) for a mathematics stay. My host also should me the national library (Octagon) and from there he pointed over the field: "Do you see the big new building there? That is a clinic specialized on treatment of radiation victims from Chernobyl." Perhaps Japan will also need such clinics in the future, and it may be good to know that other countries/states have already experience with this. And a rather different example. Years ago I was also active in a computer chess forum. When there was war on the balkan ( Serbia against large other parts of the world), one member on the list (from Belgrad) was in fear of his young daughter. Another member, a journalist form Santiago de Chile, took this daughter to his family for half a year. Ingo. > Darren > > > > -- > Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer > > http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) > http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
