Re: [computer-go] a few more questions

2008-05-14 Thread Gunnar Farnebäck
Álvaro Begué wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Weston Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Gunnar Farnebäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I agree, don't even think of doing this with floating point numbers. This is a bit tangential to computer go.

Re: [computer-go] a few more questions

2008-05-14 Thread Carter Cheng
Thanks for the help with this. I suspect I will go directly for a heavy playout implementation and avoid writing some of the trickier the light playout code so I probably will be implementing this soon. ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] a few more questions

2008-05-13 Thread Gunnar Farnebäck
Álvaro Begué wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Carter Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) When generating random variables for the case where the values of placing a stone on different points on the board are different. Are there good ways to throw and determine which point

Re: [computer-go] a few more questions

2008-05-13 Thread Zach Wegner
This could be extended rather easily to an n-ary tree. With 9x9 a natural choice is 3, but unfortunately 19 is prime. It's basically a tradeoff between how many adds and how many compares you want to do. I suppose you would do one update for every pick (unless you pick an illegal point and want

Re: [computer-go] a few more questions

2008-05-13 Thread Weston Markham
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Gunnar Farnebäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I agree, don't even think of doing this with floating point numbers. This is a bit tangential to computer go. But you have piqued my curiosity Offhand, that sounds rather extreme to me. Perhaps I haven't

Re: [computer-go] a few more questions

2008-05-13 Thread Álvaro Begué
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Weston Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Gunnar Farnebäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I agree, don't even think of doing this with floating point numbers. This is a bit tangential to computer go. But you have piqued my