[computer-go] Optiizing combinations of flags

2009-11-20 Thread Brian Sheppard
>On that topic, I have around 17 flag who enable or not features in my >pure playouts bots, and I want to search the best combinations of them. >I known this is almost a dream but does anyone know the best way to >approximate this. Pebbles randomly chooses (using a zero asymptotic regret strategy)

Re: [computer-go] Elo move prediction

2009-11-20 Thread dhillismail
Just a wild guess here. One way to get catastrophically slow performance is to have superfluous nested loops. For instance, one could iterate over each board space, calling a routine to check for legality. If the legality routine also iterates over the whole board (perhaps by updating all liber

Re: [computer-go] Elo move prediction

2009-11-20 Thread Petr Baudis
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:19:01AM -0800, Peter Drake wrote: > On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Petr Baudis wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:03:56PM -0800, Seth Pellegrino wrote: > >>* I've already got a stable base that I'm working from (specifically, > >>Peter Drake's Orego[1]). > > > > (You

Re: [computer-go] Elo move prediction

2009-11-20 Thread Peter Drake
On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Petr Baudis wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:03:56PM -0800, Seth Pellegrino wrote: * I've already got a stable base that I'm working from (specifically, Peter Drake's Orego[1]). (You could also choose a better base to work from, e.g. libego, Pachi or Fuego, bu

Re: [computer-go] Elo move prediction

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Lavergne
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:31:21AM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > For the liberties, of course that applies since they are used very often > and take little memory (if you are sensible about it), but also always > get in mind to avoid universal truths - not all features pay off to be > maintained incr

Re: [computer-go] Elo move prediction

2009-11-20 Thread Petr Baudis
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:21:25AM +0100, Thomas Lavergne wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:25:53PM -0800, Seth Pellegrino wrote: > > Apologies all for replying to myself so many times, but Darren Cook > > has been kind enough to help me clear the matter up. Essentially, I > > had misread his pap

Re: [computer-go] Elo move prediction

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Lavergne
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:25:53PM -0800, Seth Pellegrino wrote: > Apologies all for replying to myself so many times, but Darren Cook > has been kind enough to help me clear the matter up. Essentially, I > had misread his paper. I was trying to compute the expensive features > RĂ©mi uses for progre

Re: [computer-go] Elo move prediction

2009-11-20 Thread Petr Baudis
Hi! On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:03:56PM -0800, Seth Pellegrino wrote: > Thank you both for your speedy replies. I do apologize, though, as I > seem to have left some important information out: > > * I know that 70pps is useless, hence my dismay when that's the speed > I was getting. > * I am ru