Re: [computer-go] Re: Hardware limits

2009-01-14 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message From: David Doshay ddos...@mac.com Programmers work on all kinds of hardware. Making them port their code to some arbitrary standard platform is not a great idea. Just as one voice, I will not bother to port my code to a different box. So, if the competitions are

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hardware limits

2009-01-14 Thread terry mcintyre
, instead of letting those with superior quads take the crown. Terry McIntyre terrymcint...@yahoo.com ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] [Fwd: ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona]

2009-01-09 Thread terry mcintyre
will be driven to explore approaches which use the hardware more optimally. Terry McIntyre terrymcint...@yahoo.com -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman

[computer-go] wine and contact fights dojo

2008-12-31 Thread terry mcintyre
the current working directory is located. HTH Terry McIntyre terrymcint...@yahoo.com -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] 3-4-5 rule

2008-12-30 Thread terry mcintyre
From: dhillism...@netscape.net dhillism...@netscape.net I have a similar rule in my program, but I search for neighbors in a square region because I am interested in Knight's moves and Monkey Jumps. Here's an interesting scenario: A row of stones high on

[computer-go] UEC cup

2008-12-15 Thread terry mcintyre
Well, Amen! As Don Dailey said, researchers probably would have concluded that MC was not worth doing, if they had been using the computers of ten or fifteen years back. Looking forward, computer power equivalent to that rig lashed together with 8 PS3s or GPUs or FPGAs, or some combination

[computer-go] Fw: IEEE Spectrum Online: How We Found the Missing Memristor

2008-12-15 Thread terry mcintyre
This could be the future of computer Go: fast, dense, nonvolatile RAM; fast and dense FPGAs, and direct models of neurons as memristor devices. - Forwarded Message Most Read Content Top 3 most read articles: * How We Found the Missing Memristor * Slideshow: Meet

Re: [computer-go] UEC cup

2008-12-15 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Mark Boon tesujisoftw...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Don Dailey wrote: So I think we have to embrace the fact that hardware is a part of these kinds of advancements. In fact I have always believe this anyway, the whole idea behind computing is to perform simple

Re: [computer-go] UEC cup

2008-12-15 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey drdai...@cox.net On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 14:22 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote: In my experience with IT systems administration, people do tend to let the hardware do the heavy lifting when algorithmic improvements could double and quadruple the performance. We don't know much

Re: [computer-go] MC Opening stage

2008-12-10 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:56 +, tony tang wrote: Some of my programs do not place any stone on the edge, unless it touches some other stone. I also count the diagonal, so if there is a stone diagonally next to an edge point, I allow a move to that

Re: [computer-go] MC Opening stage

2008-12-10 Thread terry mcintyre
From: tony tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Back to the original question - accounting for symmetry, there 55 distinct opening moves on a 19x19 board. Are there a noted collection of these opening moves? if so could you direct me to the material? cheers Do you

Re: [computer-go] MC Opening stage

2008-12-10 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Heikki Levanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:39:55PM -0800, terry mcintyre wrote: I once heard a simple rule which seems to cover just about everything interesting: consider only moves which are on the 3rd and 4th lines, and/or within a manhattan distance of n

[computer-go] latest and greatest ref bots?

2008-12-08 Thread terry mcintyre
What's the status of the greatest-and-latest reference bots? Are the sources available anywhere? Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http

[computer-go] regression testing

2008-12-01 Thread terry mcintyre
][jl][ll][pl][rl][hm][km][lm][qm][rm][d n][gn][in][qn][eo][fo][qo][ep][hp][lp][np][op][fq][gq][lq][mq][pq][qq][rq][fr][k r][fs][js] ;C[move(rk,black):best ]) Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! ___ computer-go

Re: [computer-go] Mogo Opening, Building Strategy ?

2008-11-30 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've always had this idea that the best way to build an opening book is the best way to build a general playing engine. You are trying to solve the same exact problem - what is the best move in this position? When building an opening book, you have the

Re: [computer-go] Mogo Opening, Building Strategy ?

2008-11-30 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] MCTS really feels to me like a superb book building algorithm. Computer Chess books (at least the automated part) are built essentially by taking millions of games from master play and picking out the ones that seem to work

Re: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread terry mcintyre
From: David Fotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Traffic to my site and igowin downloads jumped 20% yesterday, so the [Sarah Conner] show did generate some interest in go. That's impressive, especially considering the fairly long search path between Go and igowin.

Re: [computer-go] On Don Dailey's first chess program

2008-11-22 Thread terry mcintyre
The term web site had no meaning prior to 1991. If we are talking about decades ago, it might have been an ftp or gopher site, or a BBS. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! The download site was a web site. The original source of my program for free I

Re: [computer-go] On Don Dailey's first chess program

2008-11-22 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Matthew Woodcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Dailey wrote: A few years later I was pointed to a site where I could download that and just about any commercial chess program.We are talking several decades ago, I didn't bookmark the site or use it myself and I have no idea if it's

Re: [computer-go] Selling a computer go program

2008-11-21 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Michael Gherrity [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have read that the amount of money that a winning computer go program would make in a go tournament is insignificant compared to the amount of money that such a program would earn selling to the general public. That is obviously true. Prizes are

Re: [computer-go] Selling a computer go program

2008-11-21 Thread terry mcintyre
Americans have, generally speaking, more respect for the rights of others - and guns play a part in that, since many of us choose to defend our rights directly. As Heinlein wrote: An armed society is a polite society. Google pink pistols and terry mcintyre if you wish. I say in general

Re: [computer-go] Re: Opportunity to promote ...

2008-11-18 Thread terry mcintyre
and pro 9 dan might be about 3 stones. Go programs have progressed a lot in the last few years, but there's still room for a lot of improvement. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! - Original Message From: Mark Boon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer

Re: [computer-go] Re: Opportunity to promote ...

2008-11-18 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 08:28 -0800, David Fotland wrote: Many Faces gained 5 ranks when I added MCTS to it (with about 7 months of full time work), so I have to agree that Monte Carlo changed our world. I remember that you were not a true believer

Re: [computer-go] RefBot (thought-) experiments

2008-11-18 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Oliver Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/18/08, Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't make any sense to me from a theoretical perspective. Do you have empirical evidence? I agree that empirical evidence is required, but theoretically,

Re: [computer-go] Windows HPC and Computer Go

2008-11-05 Thread terry mcintyre
source for information regarding purchase of Windows HPC. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! From: Angel Java Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 2:49:01 AM

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

2008-11-04 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Zach Tellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ever seeing a top chess program written in Java, or anything that is

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

2008-11-04 Thread terry mcintyre
There actually were at least three operating systems written in Haskell ( House, hOp, and Kinetic ), and the Lisp Machines came with absolutely everything - operating system, user interface, editor, yadda yadda - crafted in Lisp. ___

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

2008-11-04 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:13 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote: Some language may make it easy to encapsulate information gleaned during local searches into a kind of short term memory and exploit that to speed up evaluation of many branches of the search tree

Re: [computer-go] The Enemy's Key Point Is My Own

2008-10-28 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Richard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] The enemy's key point is my own is often invoked, for example, as a reason to occupy the central point of a _nakade_ shape, or to play a double sente point, or to make an extension that would also be an extension for the opponent. snippage Not only

Re: [computer-go] enhanced test

2008-10-28 Thread terry mcintyre
about it - and some form of feedback to encourage participation. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! - Original Message From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Tuesday

Re: [computer-go] The 2nd Comuputer Go UEC Cup

2008-10-28 Thread terry mcintyre
input different moves, the competitor loses the game immediately. The time to input moves is also clocked. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! - Original Message From: Hideki Kato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org Cc

Re: [computer-go] Transpostions in UCT search

2008-10-27 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message From: Mark Boon [EMAIL PROTECTED] snippage Let me first describe what I did (ar attempted to do): all nodes are stored in a hash-table using a checksum. Whenever I create a new node in the tree I add it in the hash-table as well. If two nodes have the same

Re: [computer-go] MC programs vs. top commercial programs?

2008-10-27 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Ian Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now that Leela and Many Faces v12 are available for any Windows user to purchase Thanks for the heads-up, I must have missed the announcement. Do either of these worthy programs work with Wine on Linux? I recently tried a development version of MGF12

Re: [computer-go] GUI GTP Engine (not Controller)?

2008-10-17 Thread terry mcintyre
Ross, I'm not getting it; what problem are you trying to solve? From: Ross Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I'm looking for a very simple GUI GTP engine--not a controller. Programs like Jago or GoGUI are great GTP controllers--they can connect to a GTP engine like GnuGo and play

Re: [computer-go] Go/Games with modified scores

2008-10-15 Thread terry mcintyre
Darren Cook wrote: What do your program's playouts think when presented with the board position in the article? This is a terminal position, both players have passed, a comfortable white win, yet pure random playouts think black will win more often.

Re: [computer-go] Anyone With Measures for MiniMax LightSimulations

2008-10-13 Thread terry mcintyre
and their refutations? If a ladder is involved, this directed expansion might add some interesting ladder breakers to the tree - even trying them in advance of playing the joseki, in order to constrain the opponent's plays to its advantage. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] We must stop dressing up

Re: [computer-go] Anyone With Measures for MiniMax LightSimulations

2008-10-12 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've always had this idea that the best way to build a book might also be the best way to build a game playing program. For instance we have done these big studies to determine based on games of Leela and others what the best main line of play is.

Re: [computer-go] Anyone With Measures for MiniMax LightSimulations

2008-10-12 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 08:08 -0700, terry mcintyre wrote: Yes, there are analogies. The databases of games in Chess include many high-quality grandmaster-level games, do they not? I hope that Go databases also sample professional Dan-level games

Re: [computer-go] Go with modified scores

2008-10-09 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Weston Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the context of Monte Carlo, a win or loss by a large margin is quite likely (at least in any close game) to be due to large blunders. (For example, allowing a large, safe group of stones to be captured.) Given this, it does not make sense to weight

Re: [computer-go] programming languages

2008-10-09 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's impressive, but I'm always interested in a general purpose algorithm that is fast, can be used on any processor, any language without pain and agony. All good things to hope for, but languages vary enough that some things must be expressed

Re: [computer-go] 7.5-komi for 9x9 in Beijing

2008-10-08 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Gunnar Farnebäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect that quite a few of the odd scores are not due to the presence of seki with an odd number of neutral points but are caused by uncaptured dead stones. Which program (or programs) is most reliable at determining life-and-death and seki

Re: [computer-go] programming languages

2008-10-07 Thread terry mcintyre
, it gives 20-30% improvement. ( You may recall LLVM from the recent hype regarding Apple's next-gen Snow Leopard ) Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] We must stop dressing up the slaughter of foreigners as a great national cause. -- Sheldon Richman

Re: [computer-go] programming languages

2008-10-07 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Dan Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is however a new kid on the block that is pretty impressive and manages to beat C/C++. ATS (Applied Type System) also emits C but due to the structure and type system the code is pretty specialized and optimized to beat any sane and optimized C

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations again to David Fotland !

2008-10-04 Thread terry mcintyre
Ingo, thanks for the info. Congrats to David Fotland, also to the Mogo and Leela teams! What were the time controls on the 19x19 games? - Original Message From: Ingo Althöfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many Faces of Go has won also the 19x19 competition in the 13th International Computer

[computer-go] go @home

2008-10-02 Thread terry mcintyre
, or whatever is determined to be an optimal method for generating solid ratings. To be fair, we'd have to discard results from computers which drop off the network, and re-play that match. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] We must stop dressing up the slaughter of foreigners as a great national cause

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland!

2008-10-01 Thread terry mcintyre
I'm curious -- was this an 8 x quad-core box? Should be able to fit all those puppies into a single box nowadays. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] We must stop dressing up the slaughter of foreigners as a great national cause. -- Sheldon Richman - Original Message From: David

Re: [computer-go] Using playouts for more than position evaluation?

2008-09-29 Thread terry mcintyre
local optima, not the globally best play. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] We must stop dressing up the slaughter of foreigners as a great national cause. -- Sheldon Richman ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http

[computer-go] the Cotsen Go Tournament results

2008-09-29 Thread terry mcintyre
http://usgo.org/tournaments/costen.html Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] We must stop dressing up the slaughter of foreigners as a great national cause. -- Sheldon Richman ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http

Re: [computer-go] Analysis of 6x6 Go

2008-09-24 Thread terry mcintyre
the quality of the estimate. At this date, computer-vs-computer matches still tend to have gross errors in the evaluation of seki, nakade, etc. Programs think they are ahead when the real result is the opposite. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go is very hard. The more I learn about

Re: [computer-go] MoGo v.s. Kim rematch

2008-09-22 Thread terry mcintyre
not help the fleeing stones; they still get corraled and captured. These corner cases are tough, but many games hinge on correctly reading out the exact consequences of life-and-death struggles. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go is very hard. The more I learn about it, the less I know. -Jie Li, 9

[computer-go] MFG 12 and Cotsen Tournament

2008-09-22 Thread terry mcintyre
, robbing MFG of a few points of territory, thereby defeating it. This 9x9 game is attached. I'd be interested to see programs which correctly handle such situations. David, many thanks! I am looking forward to the new improved version of MFG, and hope these games help. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL

Re: [computer-go] MFG 12 and Cotsen Tournament

2008-09-22 Thread terry mcintyre
I was runing on an Athlon 64x2 laptop. Unfortunately, I could not get MFG to work under Wine on my quad Intel; would love to see how well it does with better hardware. Regrettably, I have no Windows installation media for the quadcore. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go is very hard

Re: [computer-go] Lockless hash table and other parallel search ideas

2008-09-10 Thread terry mcintyre
related to nakade, seki, and ko fights. A pro could certainly not give a two-stone handicap to a top program on a 9x9 board, assuming that the program knows how to make use of those handicap stones. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go is very hard. The more I learn about it, the less I know

Re: [computer-go] Goal-directedness of Monte-Carlo

2008-09-08 Thread terry mcintyre
Interesting analysis, Don. Human players sometimes adhere to a simple policy: rich men don't pick fights. When one is objectively far ahead, one picks up the easy profits, and otherwise takes no risks. If moves A, B, and C are comparable risk-wise, one would prefer the more profitable of the

Re: [computer-go] semeai

2008-09-05 Thread terry mcintyre
://senseis.xmp.net/?CountingLibertiesAndWinningCapturingRaces Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go is very hard. The more I learn about it, the less I know. -Jie Li, 9 dan ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman

Re: [computer-go] semeai

2008-09-05 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Bob Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Robert Jasiek wrote: terry mcintyre wrote: Has anyone tried implementing the ideas in Richard Hunter's Counting Liberties ... So although Hunter's study is a good fundament from which to start working

Re: [computer-go] Kaori-Crazystone

2008-09-04 Thread terry mcintyre
Congratulations! I'm dying for details! What was the time limit? Did the game end on time or by resignation at move 179? The pro was Aoba Kaori, yes? Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go is very hard. The more I learn about it, the less I know. -Jie Li, 9 dan - Original Message

Re: [computer-go] Kaori-Crazystone

2008-09-04 Thread terry mcintyre
http://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSRatingMath -- this table does include handicap stones in the calculations. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go is very hard. The more I learn about it, the less I know. -Jie Li, 9 dan - Original Message From: terry mcintyre [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [computer-go] yet a mogo vs human game

2008-08-28 Thread terry mcintyre
Regarding a rating system which provides more dimensions, may I suggest a test suite of problems at different levels? Convert life-and-death problems to solve this problem or lose the game situations which can be properly appreciated by monte carlo programs, and make a guesstimate of the elo

Re: [computer-go] yet a mogo vs human game

2008-08-27 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message From: Rémi Coulom [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to my experience with Go data, it is not possible to give the value of one stone in terms of Elo ratings. For weak players, one stone is a lot less than 100 Elo. For stronger players, it may be more. Also, it is

Re: [computer-go] rz-74 on CGOS ?

2008-08-18 Thread terry mcintyre
Just a guess: an incarnation of Sluggo? From: Rémi Coulom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 6:13:37 AM Subject: Re: [computer-go] rz-74 on CGOS ? Magnus Persson wrote: I looked at the last games played by rz-74, and it looks like a

[computer-go] article in HPCWire

2008-08-14 Thread terry mcintyre
Facilities Foundation (NCF). See also http://www.sara.nl/news/press/20080813/Go_computer_victory_eng.html Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-13 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:38 +0200, Magnus Persson wrote: Here is my take on joseki and fuseki in computer programs. My older program Viking, had a quite nice patternmatching feature which matched the entire board or smaller parts of it towards a

Re: [computer-go] MoGo beats pro: The website

2008-08-13 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this is aimed at clearing up ambiguity, you should state which way the handicap was given. Oops! Now I need to clean off my keyboard! rotflmao! Mmmm, we already have a hotly-contested estimate that computer programs will play pros on an even basis in

Re: [computer-go] Cultural differences: players vs programmers

2008-08-12 Thread terry mcintyre
Every now and then, I have been known to eke out a win by running my opponent out of time. KGS thinks that such a win is as good as any other. I am unable to convince myself; but whenever I have a territorial advantage, I never have second thoughts. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread terry mcintyre
, search instability, and many others. Therefore, most modern chess engines still implement Negascout, which is considered by many chess programmers to be the best search algorithm in practice. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found

Re: [computer-go] Seki in playouts

2008-08-12 Thread terry mcintyre
There are times when self-atari is the correct play. Seki and nakade are probably going to require a global analysis to handle properly. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered

Re: [computer-go] Depth-first UCT

2008-08-12 Thread terry mcintyre
/~kishi/publication.html Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” Benjamin Disraeli, Speech

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-12 Thread terry mcintyre
From: steve uurtamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] what happens when the opponent deviates from joseki? knowing how to punish joseki mistakes can be very, very tricky. From my observations at the mogo-vs-pro game, given lots of time and CPU cores, Mogo is able to discover how to punish such deviations. In

Re: [computer-go] mogo beats pro!

2008-08-11 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Bob Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, my question. Sorry if this has already been beaten to death here. After the match, one of the MoGo programmers mentioned that doubling the computation led to a 63% win rate against the baseline version, and that so far this scaling seemed to continue as

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-11 Thread terry mcintyre
On 10-aug-08, at 17:24, Don Dailey wrote: Of course there is also the possibility of some exciting new hardware breakthrough around the corner that doesn't just extend Moore's law, but blows it out of the water. From: Mark Boon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course there's that possibility. But I'm

Re: [computer-go] Cultural differences: players vs programmers

2008-08-11 Thread terry mcintyre
. :) If my program won on time in an obviously lost position, I'd be turning every rock to find a way to improve the actual play; that matters much more to me than the win-loss record. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-11 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message From: Christoph Birk [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Don Dailey wrote: It was obviously unclear enough to some of us that it required some analysis. Even the strong Leela did not see this as merely filling in the empty points. That's because it

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
humans have studied for thousands of years; it is not surprising that they should be optimal or near-optimal. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
From: David Doshay [EMAIL PROTECTED] One point not discussed much in this thread is the consistency issue. I think that if Kim were able to play a dozen games against mogo with this same handicap he would win the last 6 ... people manage to adapt and the computers do not. But that much

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15

Re: [computer-go] mogo beats pro!

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message I still have this theory that when the level of the program is in the high-dan reaches, it can take proper advantage of an opening book. Alas, it may be a few years before enough processoring power is routinely available to test this hypothesis. I know that we

[computer-go] I like pie.

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't care what people say about handicap systems, if you are the stronger player you must start from a dead lost position. Even though I'm not a strong GO player, common sense tells me that you will have to play unsound moves on

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
against a pro. Human blunders in blitz games tend to be during more complex middle-game situations, where they have to calculate de novo the best play. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http

Re: [computer-go] Report on 2008 US Go Congress Computer Go Tournament

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
Peter, many thanks to you and all the other participants in the Computer Go Tournament! It was fun watching and participating! Here's hoping we have a nice strong cluster or two mowing down the opposition next year! - Original Message From: Peter Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Computer

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
that Doshay's Sluggo will compete - provided he can work out the issues with his new portable cluster. David has said he'd love to see other computer competitors. This is contingent on the Cotsen tournament rules -- I'll get that information. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-09 Thread terry mcintyre
anything remotely in the same ballpark as that. The fault was not his, in any way, shape or form. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience

[computer-go] mogo beats pro!

2008-08-07 Thread terry mcintyre
the game, Doshay wondered “How much time do we have left? We’ve improved nine stones in just a year and I suspect the next nine will fall quickly now.” - reported by Chris Garlock, photo by Brian Allen Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government

Re: [computer-go] mogo beats pro!

2008-08-07 Thread terry mcintyre
playouts which would better utilize information about the board, and presumably gather higher quality information with less effort. All the best to you wonderful people for making this program possible! Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [computer-go] mogo beats pro!

2008-08-07 Thread terry mcintyre
that Mogo has such impressive power - but unfortunately, the supercomputer was only lent for this one match. They can't easily test the hypothesis that a strong program on a massive cluster could make effective use of a good opening book. Mogo no longer uses UCT. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [computer-go] mogo beats pro!

2008-08-07 Thread terry mcintyre
To answer one other question: we were told that Mogo scales linearly. The supercomputer has a very high-bandwidth interconnect. The Mogo team was unable to release more architectural details at this time. To reiterate on another question, from what the team said, no book, no joseki, just raw

Re: [computer-go] Computer Go tournament at EGC, Leksand, Sweden

2008-08-05 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I misunderstood Jason's email. He is trying to compile his program to run on windows and it's written in D. You cannot log into a windows computer remotely either without special software. Rdesktop is is widely available for

Re: [computer-go] Ladders and UCT again

2008-08-01 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Peter Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems too expensive to search every point on the board for ladders. What to do? Perhaps it would be worthwhile to preserve state from board to board - there are unlikely to be more than 2 or 3 ladders on any given board. When a stone is played,

Re: [computer-go] CGOS server boardsize

2008-08-01 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] One time long ago I considered making a server where there were no time controls. You just played at whatever pace you choose. The server would try to keep your bot busy playing many different games simultaneously. Whenever your move is complete, the

Re: [computer-go] Ladders and UCT again

2008-07-31 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Peter Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our approach was to read out ladders involving the last stone played. In the playout (beyond the tree), if the attacker can capture by continuing a ladder, the attacker plays that move. If the defender can escape by running, the defender plays that move.

Re: [computer-go] Re: tournaments

2008-07-17 Thread terry mcintyre
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, David Doshay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Doshay [EMAIL PROTECTED] My program runs on a cluster ... no way around that. David, you're just not taking full advantage of Virtualization ... simply emulate multiple VMs on a single computer; there may be a performance

Re: [computer-go] Re: tournaments

2008-07-17 Thread terry mcintyre
The apps will arrive. Toshiba plans to sell a laptop with a modified form of the Cell processor; it has 4 SPEs which do quite a job of handling blu-ray DVDs and also use the laptop's webcam to allow user movement and facial expressions to control the computer. ( I can just see it - user

Re: [computer-go] Random

2008-05-20 Thread terry mcintyre
://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ Terry McIntyre lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; “Wherever is found what is called

Re: [computer-go] Random

2008-05-16 Thread terry mcintyre
would be as random as all that, when called frequently in quasi-deterministic code which takes a predictable number of cycles between invocations. Terry McIntyre lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been

Re: [computer-go] Computer Go Forum

2008-05-03 Thread terry mcintyre
version. The Japanese version describes a special meeting June 21,22. This meeting announcement does not appear on the English version. Terry McIntyre lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best

Re: [computer-go] My experience with Linux

2008-04-12 Thread terry mcintyre
challenge, the game of Go? Terry McIntyre lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” Benjamin Disraeli, Speech

Re: [computer-go] Scalability study request

2008-04-11 Thread terry mcintyre
If we start up another scalability test, I'd be delighted to offer up a few computer cores. It would be real nice to not only have the light-playout variant of leela, but perhaps the nakade-patch version of mogo and maybe even some third program. ( if wishes were horses ... ) Terry McIntyre lt

Re: [computer-go] Scalability study request

2008-04-11 Thread terry mcintyre
it is worse :-) Good to find out, no? Terry McIntyre lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” Benjamin Disraeli

Re: [computer-go] My experience with Linux

2008-04-09 Thread terry mcintyre
/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ Terry McIntyre lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” Benjamin Disraeli, Speech

RE: [computer-go] My experience with Linux

2008-04-09 Thread terry mcintyre
that becomes available. Having a free as in speech OS does not preclude supporting the efforts of commercial developers. I see Linux market share increasing. Microsoft recently announced that Windows XP will be supported for two more years - presumably due to widespread discontent with Vista. Terry

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