Re: [computer-go] Re: Strength of Monte-Carlo w/ UCT...

2008-08-10 Thread Dan Andersson
and higher confidence. I could believe that they have a proof that the algorithm is scalable in computing power... but not necessarily that it is scalable against the problem of beating a human. MC/UCT is provably scalable up to perfect play. /Dan Andersson Firstly.. I don't know

Re: [computer-go] programming languages

2008-10-07 Thread Dan Andersson
Don Dailey skrev: I have looked at Lisaac a bit. It does seem to be pretty close to C/C++ in performance. I'm all for a prototype based OO that fits the systems programming niche. It seems heavily influences by Eiffel and Self/Smalltalk. Since it actually emits C code it's not truly faster

Re: [computer-go] Publishing source for (yet another) MC simulator

2008-11-04 Thread Dan Andersson
Don Dailey skrev: On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 09:24 -0800, Zach Tellman wrote: There are few languages other than these that offer reasonable performance, not worse than 2X slower than C, but they tend to be memory hogs. Java is one of them. I cannot imagine

Re: [computer-go] Publishing source for (yet another) MC simulator

2008-11-04 Thread Dan Andersson
Don Dailey skrev: On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 20:13 +0100, Dan Andersson wrote: If one takes the position that bugs have a pretty significant impact on the strength of a program (A position I agree with) one could be pretty forgiving about the speed of execution of an algorithm if it is written