Re: [computer-go] the computer go ladder - mogo?

2007-01-17 Thread terry mcintyre
CGOS has many strong points: it automatically schedules games, it has a lot of sample points to drive the ELO ratings, it preserves game records, and it has many participating programs. It also distinguishes between versions of the programs - important to consider when the CGL games span severa

Re: [computer-go] the computer go ladder - mogo?

2007-01-17 Thread David Doshay
It seems far less automatic, so I would think it has disadvantages. Cheers, David On 17, Jan 2007, at 1:45 PM, Chris Fant wrote: Does the ladder have any advantage over CGOS in any respect? On 1/17/07, terry mcintyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is the Computer Go Ladder still active? I don

Re: [computer-go] the computer go ladder - mogo?

2007-01-17 Thread Chris Fant
Does the ladder have any advantage over CGOS in any respect? On 1/17/07, terry mcintyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is the Computer Go Ladder still active? I don't see any change in standings since August 2006, and I suspect that Viking and Mogo would do rather well against many of the current c

[computer-go] the computer go ladder - mogo?

2007-01-17 Thread terry mcintyre
Is the Computer Go Ladder still active? I don't see any change in standings since August 2006, and I suspect that Viking and Mogo would do rather well against many of the current contestants, based upon their results on the CGOS server: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/go/ladder.html Terry McIntyre [

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-17 Thread Christoph Birk
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Jacques BasaldĂșa wrote: Any coherent higher dimension model should explain which of the three circumstances is not met, how and why and without making any particular dimension different from the others. Something a lot more complicated than just drawing "easy conclusions" fro

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-17 Thread Christoph Birk
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Don Dailey wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:21 -0800, Christoph Birk wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Don Dailey wrote: One of the theoretical limitations to computing power (which was layed out in someones posts) and I have always understood to be the case, is related to space

Re: [computer-go] Planet Computer-Go

2007-01-17 Thread Chris Fant
> Have you trawled through http://senseis.xmp.net/?GoBlogs? I have (briefly). But I haven't found anything. Maybe there aren't any bloggers out there that are also Computer Go programmers? Mick Reiss, but he updates very rarely. http://www.reiss.demon.co.uk/webgo/compgo.htm ___

Re: [computer-go] Planet Computer-Go

2007-01-17 Thread Urban Hafner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 17, 2007, at 15:43 , Stuart A. Yeates wrote: More correctly, a planet aggregates RSS feeds (rather than blogs). To be pedantic, it also aggregates RDF and Atom feeds if you want to ;) This means that you can add things like the the RSS f

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-17 Thread Jacques BasaldĂșa
Way off topic, on behalf of physical evidence of the dimension of universe: In an n-dimensional universe any radiation that propagates under common circumstances: 1. Conservation of energy 2. Constant speed 3. Isotropy (same intensity in all directions) satisfies: At a distance d from the sour

Re: [computer-go] UCT memory issues and scalability

2007-01-17 Thread Don Dailey
I copied this from another post someone made: Here is a summary of how it works: - Use probability of winning as score, not territory - Use the average outcome as position value - Select the move that maximizes v + sqrt((2*log(t))/(10*n)) v is the value of the move (average outcome, betw

Re: [computer-go] UCT memory issues and scalability

2007-01-17 Thread Jacques BasaldĂșa
Hi, Don Don Dailey wrote: > v + sqrt((2*log(t))/(10*n)) .. > .. n the number of simulations of this move 1. Does that mean the number in any branch? Do you store an array with the number of times each move is played, no matter in what branch? 2. Do you have some explanation for this expression

Re: [computer-go] Planet Computer-Go

2007-01-17 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
More correctly, a planet aggregates RSS feeds (rather than blogs). This means that you can add things like the the RSS feeds from version control systems, wikis, mailing lists, etc, etc Have you trawled through http://senseis.xmp.net/?GoBlogs ? cheers stuart On 1/17/07, Urban Hafner <[EMAIL PR

[computer-go] Planet Computer-Go

2007-01-17 Thread Urban Hafner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hej everybody, I'd like to announce Planet Computer-Go at http://computer-go.bettong.net. This is a website that aggregates all the blog posts about Computer-Go. Unfortunately it's very hard (at least for me) to find blog about computer go. I mean go

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-17 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 06:03 -0300, Eduardo Sabbatella wrote: > As far I know, just coffee speaking with some physics > friends. WE ALL live in multi dimensional world. > Indeed, if more then 3 dimensions exists, we exist in > them, also our computers. The thing is, our eyes only > see the first th

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-17 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 03:47 -0600, Nick Apperson wrote: > I bet Windows Vista would still run slow on God's computer though. Go > Microsoft! Sorry to get off topic, I just figure we have beat this > subject to death. You would probably just have to reboot it more often. > - Nick > _

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-17 Thread Nick Apperson
I bet Windows Vista would still run slow on God's computer though. Go Microsoft! Sorry to get off topic, I just figure we have beat this subject to death. - Nick On 1/17/07, Eduardo Sabbatella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far I know, just coffee speaking with some physics friends. WE ALL li

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-17 Thread Eduardo Sabbatella
As far I know, just coffee speaking with some physics friends. WE ALL live in multi dimensional world. Indeed, if more then 3 dimensions exists, we exist in them, also our computers. The thing is, our eyes only see the first three ones. I think you are talking about the God's computer ;-). ---