chitchat satisfies the human desire for self-expression and/or self aggrandisement, but it usually doesn't much help the enquiring student​ of science, unless you're chatting with Minsky or Chomsky.
there are 1001 publishers around, all of whom demand money for information. and one or two that don't, as they make their revenues from bundling advertisers' spam into whatever they give you for free. it is tedious to have to trawl through kilograms of garbage, only to find that the diamond you are looking for is blocked by a guard demanding money or signup for more circular spam. there are a few sources of open actual information, and authors sometimes choose one or another as their vehicle. YouTube does it for movies, would someone like to do it for papers about Go programming? It could simply be a list of URLs that contain information instead of the usual metainformation. Here's a start: 1999 Static analysis of life and death in the game of Go. Ken Chen, Zhixing Chen. https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/go/seminar/2002/020703/ld.pdf -- http://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/home https://www.youtube.com/user/djhbrown
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