Re: [computer-go] Please have your bot resign, for your own good

2008-01-03 Thread William Harold Newman
* HIS_SQUARED_POSTPASS_SACRIFICES exceeds the number of squares on the board, the game is won). However, it won't surprise me if something in a similar spirit turns out to be usefully robust. -- William Harold Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint 85 CE 1C BA 79 8D 51 8C B9 25 FB EE E0 C3 E5 7C Of course one could write

CL implementation speed (Re: [computer-go] Drunken sailor on payday)

2007-11-25 Thread William Harold Newman
of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp_. The book is noticeably old (notably in its idea of what the paradigms of AI are), but it remains quite a good source for practical CL programming examples and advice. -- William Harold Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key

Re: [computer-go] Language

2007-11-14 Thread William Harold Newman
tools...) may be hard-pressed to keep up in an understandable and/or reliable way, for pretty fundamental reasons. -- William Harold Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint 85 CE 1C BA 79 8D 51 8C B9 25 FB EE E0 C3 E5 7C Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit. -- Jonathan Swift's

Re: [computer-go] Language

2007-11-14 Thread William Harold Newman
strike me as particularly plausible when I heard of it, either, and I find myself forced to remain openminded about what's going to turn out to be important in strong programs. -- William Harold Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint 85 CE 1C BA 79 8D 51 8C B9 25 FB EE E0 C3 E5 7C 'C'est

Re: [computer-go] Language

2007-11-14 Thread William Harold Newman
cases, like imposing static type systems or forbidding continuations or allowing only C++-style static single dispatch instead of CLOS-style dynamic multiple dispatch, they can be very helpful for the efficiency of compiled code too.) -- William Harold Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint 85

Re: [computer-go] Language

2007-11-13 Thread William Harold Newman
to the TLPlan planner, and TLPlan was originally developed in Lisp but was eventually translated to a lower level language for performance. -- William Harold Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint 85 CE 1C BA 79 8D 51 8C B9 25 FB EE E0 C3 E5 7C Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare

Re: [computer-go] LISP question (littlle bit off topic)

2007-04-09 Thread William Harold Newman
. It wasn't all that far away (in calendar years) from the time when people programmed Chess on a 6x6 board, right? I doubt that that early 6x6 Chess program is good evidence that its computer programmers didn't care about playing Chess by standard rules... -- William Harold Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [computer-go] professional knowledge

2007-04-05 Thread William Harold Newman
and influence seem likely to change significantly. But as I said, I doubt that is what the original unnamed poster was talking about. -- William Harold Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint 85 CE 1C BA 79 8D 51 8C B9 25 FB EE E0 C3 E5 7C Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit