Re: [computer-go] creating a "random" position

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
George Dahl wrote: > How would one go about creating a random board position with a uniform > distribution over all legal positions? Is this even possible? I am > not quite sure what I mean by uniform. If one flipped a three sided > coin to determine if each vertex was white,black or empty, then

Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Don Dailey wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:27 -0500, Weston Markham wrote: > > > > > > There is no race condition because commands _are_ read > > synchronously. > > > But responses _may be_ sent asynchronously. > > > > > > Paul > > > > I'm not sure that I understand Paul's explanation, so I'll t

Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Don Dailey wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 22:53 +0100, Gunnar Farneback wrote: > > * To abort the asynchronous genmove, the controller should send the > > (synchronous) command abort_async_genmove. If the engine has not > > returned the asynchronous genmove response before responding to the > >

Re: [gtp] Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Gunnar Farneback wrote: > Example 3: Like example 2, but abort command comes too late. > Controller: > 1 async_genmove black > 2 abort_async_genmove > 3 play black C3 > > Engine: > =1 > > !1 E5 > > =2 > > =3 Maybe it should then read ?2 not in progress It also makes sense to forbid an async_

Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
I have not been following this discussion closely, but let me throw few ideas in. First about a new protocol --- I'm strongly against. I remember it was a real pain to force GTP over backward GMP. Now you want to force some (probably better but more likely more complicated) protocol over GTP whi

Re: [computer-go] Why not forums?

2007-02-04 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Dmitry Kamenetsky wrote: > Why can't we use proper forums instead of this outdated list? No, please don't. Last time I checked, forums were unusable. I find it much easier to just delete messages I'm not interested in than to check forums periodically. (And yes, I'm subscribed to some 10 lists,