[computer-go] Territory counting library?

2007-12-25 Thread Sorin Gherman
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Re: [Computer-go] Finding Alphago's Weaknesses

2016-03-10 Thread Sorin Gherman
>From reading their article, AlphaGo makes no difference at all between start, middle and endgame. Just like any other position, the empty (or almost empty, or almost full) board is just another game position in which it chooses (one of) the most promising moves in order to maximize her chance of

Re: [Computer-go] Finding Alphago's Weaknesses

2016-03-10 Thread Sorin Gherman
" <tw...@brocku.ca> wrote: > But at the start of the game the statistical learning of infinitessimal > advantages of one opening move compared to another opening move is less > efficient than the learning done in the middle and end game. > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Sorin Ghe

Re: [Computer-go] Finding Alphago's Weaknesses

2016-03-10 Thread Sorin Gherman
f the game :-) Sorin Gherman On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:13 AM, wing <w...@swcp.com> wrote: > One question is whether Lee Sedol knows about these weaknesses. > Another question is whether he will exploit those weaknesses. > Lee has a very simple style of play that seems less ko-orie

Re: [Computer-go] Game 4: a rare insight

2016-03-13 Thread Sorin Gherman
There is no way to not know that O10 was dead after white plays O9, since AlphaGo handled much more complicated fights even in the games in October. My only guess from looking at the sequence around O10, where black makes its own big group bigger is that it was preparing for a ko-fight, and

Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to AlphaGo

2016-03-12 Thread Sorin Gherman
It is fascinating indeed to try to find how much stronger is AlphaGo compared to top humans. Given the fact that it is hard to find the reason why Lee Sedol lost, and that AlphaGo seems to get mysteriously ahead without a clear reason, tells me that the difference is definitely more than one

Re: [Computer-go] Densei-sen

2016-03-23 Thread Sorin Gherman
Why did darkforest resign? I think darkforest shoud be able to win by about 4 points if it keeps playing. On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Hiroshi Yamashita wrote: > Hi, > > darkforest lost against Koichi Kobayashi with 3 handicaps. > Next game, Zen vs Kobayashi will be

Re: [Computer-go] sgf files for world go championship games?

2017-03-24 Thread Sorin Gherman
SGFs here: http://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=18=14117=World On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: > any one got a pointer to these? > > thanks > > > -- > Honesty is a very expensive gift. So, don't expect it from cheap people - > Warren Buffett >

Re: [Computer-go] Zero performance

2017-10-20 Thread Sorin Gherman
Training of AlphaGo Zero has been done on thousands of TPUs, according to this source: https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/777ym4/alphago_zero_learning_from_scratch_deepmind/dokj1uz/?context=3 Maybe that should explain the difference in orders of magnitude that you noticed? On Fri, Oct 20,

Re: [Computer-go] Announcement in Leela

2018-04-27 Thread Sorin Gherman
Of course it defeated amateur 5d on DGS, LeelaZero has already reached/surpassed top human pro strength, see recent news: https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/8ezgms/leela_zero_20_blocks_4x_v100_tesla_gpu_just/