Life In 19x19

If you want to reach children and pensioners (the two demographics I eye for the spread of Go) using a foreign language is not a good idea.

Oh, I think that children take it in their stride. They are, after all, superb language learners.

True. And it is easier for everyone to say "atari" then ...

handa711 wrote:Seriously, is it that hard to not require this horrible technology?

What's wrong with Java? Why would you care about the technology as long as the product works?

This one so far is my favorite:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/76/3b/19/763b19b95746a4b2f5a3029693502b43.jpg

Yes, that's my cat.

Oooooo..... should I use that as my avatar?

=^.^=

Go ahead. I can send you a higher resolution pic if you like.
It is already my ...

Babelardus wrote:I have noticed some Wordpress installations getting flacky since PHP 7.

WP installations have been flaky since the dawn of time...

This one so far is my favorite:



Yes, that's my cat.

I find it better with japanese terms.

In fencing all terms are in French and no one gives a damn.

In numerous other sports too.

Peace

My assumption is that it got markedly stronger over the year through self-play, not through training its policy network with more pro games. For one thing, a lot of its best moves were unusual from a pro perspective.

That the thing - in order for it to play unusual moves, it has to learn what ...

Actually not, as far as we're aware. Prior to the original Nature paper they only trained it using KGS games.

Although they may have added pro games I doubt whether there are even one million of them available - GoGod doesn't even have 100,000.

Even if they have a large number it's a good ...

I suppose what they did was feed the programs millions of pro games and its gradually developed a style to beat them, as @dankenzon suggested.

Actually not, as far as we're aware. Prior to the original Nature paper they only trained it using KGS games.

Although they may have added pro games I ...

They don't bring result because go is not chess. In Chess if you solve thousands of problems you can be very good because chess is very limited. In go, you can lose large groups of stones and still win the game with the right strategy.

I don't do much go problems, but focus on strategy and theory ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44

Neat! (no pun intended)

I also found this one - m Second headline talks about the algorithm, soooooooo... Alpha Go, you are busted

Joking aside, since AlphaGo was built on the NEAT principle with neural networks and what not, it proves its ...

dankenzon wrote:

Stefany93 wrote:I wonder if they made the algorithm public yet?

They won't. Because there's no algorith. AlphaGo is a virtual brain. It learned and developed its own style.

Yeah... If that was possible we would be dead already by SkyNet.

They don't bring result because go is not chess. In Chess if you solve thousands of problems you can be very good because chess is very limited. In go, you can lose large groups of stones and still win the game with the right strategy.

I don't do much go problems, but focus on strategy and theory ...

One thing that bothers me about the AlphaGo reviews:

So ok, AlphaGo clearly plays better than the pros, and AlphaGo occasionally makes uncommon moves. Now everyone focusses on these uncommon moves and new fuseki and joseki are discussed. But what if AlphaGo's dominance comes from all the other ...

I wonder if they made the algorithm public yet?