Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

2017-01-30 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
You can find go players in Santa Fe, NM by visiting the http://santafegoclub.org website and attending their meets and any teaching sessions. For other places see the AGA at http://usgo.org or the EGF at http://www.eurogofed.org/ AlphaGo went on to beet Korean top player Lee Seedol 4-1 in

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

2017-01-30 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
So there are at least three by your count, and that was only a shallow dredge of the pond. I obtained an early version of a computer game and frittered away a lot of hours playing that maniacal coffee maker. I found the flaw that the writer relied upon and wiped out the game every time. That

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

2017-01-30 Thread Joe Spinden
Old article, but new to me. In any case, if true it is of interest. I was never better than 2-3 kyu, but I stopped playing some time ago.. JS On 1/30/17 8:07 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: To Joseph Spinden, The article is old and I wonder if you play the game. I ran a Go club at the

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-01-30 Thread Marcus Daniels
Owen, I think you are conflating projects that are feasible for college students or retired individuals with projects that are feasible for professionals. In industry, some kinds of work products (and yes, software) are export-controlled and, whether or you sell them or not, you can be in big

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

2017-01-30 Thread Steven A Smith
Vlad - I am the weakest of GO players, in spite of having considered the problem of trying to use Gosper's memoisation as a mode of associative memory problem solving. Cody the M00se Dooderson has beat me every time we have played I think. Weak, weak, weak! But I do find it fascinating.

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-01-30 Thread Owen Densmore
Does anyone have an opinion on the OP: Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software .. which really is about that it's too late for populism, nationalism, isolationism to overcome what is already around us? We are far more global than we think we are. ​How many of us are

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

2017-01-30 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
To Joseph Spinden, The article is old and I wonder if you play the game. I ran a Go club at the University of Manitoba and can tell you strange stories about a time before Hassabis. I swear I never won a game in 5 years but I kept playing anyway. I guess I am bloody minded. Eventually I

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-01-30 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Glen, I was thinking this was my own obsession only. But the mind of the accuser is repeatedly presenting itself as more important then any specific category. It runs through them all like a river. I recall someone wishing to learn how to build sailboats and that person thought I was born with

Re: [FRIAM] Why The Cold War Between Tech CEOs and Trump Is About To Go Nuclear

2017-01-30 Thread Gillian Densmore
As I've said I few times. Wise man seeks not out trouble. And don't make an issue out isses and they (might not) be a problem in the first play. Besides. You have to admit America does need to provide better stuff so as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs is filled. To

[FRIAM] Why The Cold War Between Tech CEOs and Trump Is About To Go Nuclear

2017-01-30 Thread Owen Densmore
Insights into the tech sector's need for foreign workers. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-30/why-cold-war-between-tech-ceos-and-trump-about-go-nuclear When I was at Sun Microsystems, we had a huge number of folks H1-B visas. The first partner I had was from Iran. >From the post, much more

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-01-30 Thread glen ☣
On 01/27/2017 08:34 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > So I cause confusion only because I do not fit into any well established > classification system. I bring this up because my experience in life defies > most systems which you are attempting to tease apart. Well, to be clear, I offered the

Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

2017-01-30 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, Owen, I have a little knowledge about weather, and, as we all know, a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing. To give us some facts to work with, I have linked you to an upper air plot generated

Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

2017-01-30 Thread Owen Densmore
> > ​ > I would not like to be the helium drone trying to stay in one spot in a > 120 knot jet stream, > > > > Nick > Hi Nick. ​The FAQ had a lot of interesting answers. Here's the one I also had about staying in one place.​ My bet is the "weather" up there may be more manageable for the flock?

Re: [FRIAM] And now for something different

2017-01-30 Thread Owen Densmore
God that's a blast from the past .. and seriously funny. And apropos. On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > and gloriusly amusing: > > Politics today is a kind of like this: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8 >

[FRIAM] Political pressures on stats

2017-01-30 Thread Tom Johnson
Keep an eye on changing definitions and the denominator. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/statistics-trump-administration-numbers-manipulation?CMP=share_btn_tw === Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM t...@jtjohnson.com