Life In 19x19

For a statically compiled application and for a buffer to overflow, there must be a reason: division by zero, missing garbage colletion or interpretation of unchecked input of network data or GUI entered data. The programmer need not be a security expert to avoid such, but he just needs discipline ...

or b) convincing the programmer to avoid JRE. Either way closes the vector of JRE-related security issues. (Provided one does not have to use third programs depending on JRE.)

You are missing one crucial point: Sure, not using JRE closes the vector of JRE-related security issues. But it also ...

By the way, right around New Year's I discovered Habit RPG. It was pretty good at forcing me to do things that I wanted to do... although staying logged on to my computer record stuff on it was a bit of a drag, and the website kept going down. You should try it. Habitrpg.com

+1 for them using ...

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The circled white stones can not be cut. The triangled black ...

I have been reading Opening Theory Made Easy for a few days, and it uses one space and two space jumps to run away/attack a lot. Since both jumps can be cut , especially the two space jump, why would it be a good way of fleeing or attacking ? In what sort of a position would these jumps be safe ...

Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
-- Terry Pratchett

(sorry, couldn't resist )

I think cats always want to take part in the activities you're interested in. If you're sitting in front of the computer a lot, they're going to come and sit on your keyboard or mousepad. If you're reading comic books, they are going to sit in the middle of the comic books. And if you happen to play ...

It depends on the context. Sometimes you want the computer to determine the score without human interaction.

But in the standard case, I agree, the most practical solution is to let the players remove the dead stones manually, and then solve the much simpler sub-problem of flood-filling the ...

No, it does not apply to the technical definition of stone/area scoring. It applies to the practical problem of determining who won the game at the end.

Of course you can always simplify a problem by just changing the problem statement in a way that is convenient, but in doing so, you didn't ...

Only life-and-death dependent scoring is hard. Area scoring, stone scoring etc. are O(n), i.e., as trivial as flood-filling.

Nonsense.

Your seemingly trivial flood-filling can not remove dead stones, and it also doesn't handle seki.

Read the paper I referenced.
You're of course free to disagree ...

Is counting a difficult problem for computer programs?
Actually, scoring a finished position is PSPACE-hard
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So in general, yes, counting is a very difficult problem for computer programs, even for finished positions. But in practice, heuristics can help. Especially for bots that is not a ...

I have to admit that this looks like a good move... Let's look at some options:

$$Wcm1 illluck vs. Celebrir - Diagram 1
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Actually, starting with version 7, the official Oracle JDK and the OpenJDK are nearly identical, and the differences are expected to disappear soon...

(See for example http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the .)

I would be very surprised if you still found ...

$$Wc illuck vs. Celebrir
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I'm also pretty sure no two games played on internet are exactly alike (except on purpose). The probability of that happening is still low enough

Theoretically (with access to the database of a go server), it shouldn't be that hard to check