Re: [computer-go] New ICGA web site

2007-01-24 Thread Rémi Coulom
Nick Wedd wrote: Some results of Computer Go (and other computer games) events have long been available on the old ICGA web site at http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/ . There is now a new ICGA web site at http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/ with fuller information on these events, including

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Aloril
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:53 -0500, Don Dailey wrote: It's obvious that you can't program a 10 instruction per second computer to beat a human - so it's also clear that there would be some minimum level of hardware required. Obvious? You have proof of that? ;-) Don't underestimate God,

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread terry mcintyre
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:53 -0500, Don Dailey wrote: It's obvious that you can't program a 10 instruction per second computer to beat a human - so it's also clear that there would be some minimum level of hardware required. Let's not forget VLIW ( Very Long Instruction Word ) computers,

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread David Doshay
At the 3rd International Conference on Baduk there was a paper presented on fMRI images of the brains of expert and non-expert players analyzing Go problems. The conclusion of the research is that experts use far less of their brains than non-experts. The volume of the brain used by experts is

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread terry mcintyre
Moravec estimates that the computer which beat a grandmaster was equivalent to 1/30 of the processing capacity of a human brain. So, let's call it 10^13 neurons -- a fraction of the brain, but still a very large amount of processing capability. - Original Message From: David Doshay

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:17 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote: I could make a guess, but I certainly don't trust my intuition here. My guess is that God could program a core 2 duo system of today to beat a strong human. There are limits to what a core 2 duo can compute in a reasonable

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Fant
So if we assume 10 Hz in the brain and 4GHz on silicon, we need to do 25000 neuron-equivalent operations per cycle on silicon. On 1/24/07, terry mcintyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moravec estimates that the computer which beat a grandmaster was equivalent to 1/30 of the processing capacity of a

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread terry mcintyre
Question: were the experts analyzing problems which were difficult at their level, or the same problems analyzed by non-experts? I suspect that expert players are able to obtain better results for the same problem with less effort than average players. To borrow from some now-ancient research

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On 1/24/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am fairly sure a perfect program would be impossible, even among the set of all possible programs that could find a move within let's say 60 seconds per move. Since no one has mentioned bounding memory, a complete lookup table (a complete

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Nick Apperson
I am thinking that God would use a much larger portion of the memory as code space. Hardcoding lots of the programming. Reason being, there would be no point in learning and go has so many special cases that it might be easier to do it this way (for a being that has lots of time to program that

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread David Doshay
According to the presenter, the problems covered a range of difficulty from purely random boards to easy problems to hard problems. All of the problems shown to the subjects were not given in the paper. The same set of problems were shown to all subjects. It would be difficult, but not

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Nick Apperson
In my original question I stated minimum resources. I agree with you that lots of memory could be highly useful: ... I would say a computer with perfect software, 32 GB of RAM (so a lot) and a 300 Mhz processor (slow processor) would be able to beat a human. (from my original post) So it sounds

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Don Dailey
I feel that it takes a good combination of impressive hardware/software to play a really good game. Human brains are rather impressive in this regard, the hardware is more advanced than anything we have, but I'll bet the human brain is really far from being optimized for go. - Don On

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On 1/24/07, Nick Apperson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my original question I stated minimum resources. I agree with you that lots of memory could be highly useful: ... I would say a computer with perfect software, 32 GB of RAM (so a lot) and a 300 Mhz processor (slow processor) would be able

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 19:56, Stuart A. Yeates a écrit : Since no one has mentioned bounding memory, a complete lookup table (a complete table of correct moves, perfect-hashed by board state) should do the trick. With 10^170 legal position for 19x19 what would be the size of this table ?

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread steve uurtamo
With 10^170 legal position for 19x19 what would be the size of this table ? I m afraid we cannot build it with all the matter in visible universe. it'd also be difficult (time consuming-wise) to *produce* all valid boards. :) s.

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
If god is building it, does it need to be in the universe? cheers stuart On 1/24/07, alain Baeckeroot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 19:56, Stuart A. Yeates a écrit: Since no one has mentioned bounding memory, a complete lookup table (a complete table of correct moves,

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Fant
Oh no you didn't! On 1/24/07, alain Baeckeroot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 19:56, Stuart A. Yeates a écrit: Since no one has mentioned bounding memory, a complete lookup table (a complete table of correct moves, perfect-hashed by board state) should do the trick.

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Fant
Since no one has mentioned bounding memory, a complete lookup table (a complete table of correct moves, perfect-hashed by board state) should do the trick. cheers stuart You're going to need more than 300MHz to do that lookup. ___ computer-go mailing

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Nick Apperson
To do a complete lookup you would need more than 32 GB of memory, but I think that the question was more about making programs smarter more than it was about unlimited hardware. Infact, my question was what is the minimum hardware. That said, 300 Mhz should be plenty to do a lookup. There are

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Thomas Johnson
Nah, hash tables are amortized O(1). As long as you can address all that memory, 300MHz should be sufficient. On 1/24/07, Chris Fant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since no one has mentioned bounding memory, a complete lookup table (a complete table of correct moves, perfect-hashed by board state)

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
You can if you use some sort of compression scheme...involving multiple values per quanta. I bet there's more than enough room...in the universe...probably just in your eyelash. - Original Message From: alain Baeckeroot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Christoph Birk
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, terry mcintyre wrote: surprising amount of sophisticated processing nonetheless. It helps to have 10^15 processors working in parallel. it's more like 10^11 Christoph ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Nick Apperson
actually, one more trip to Gateway Electronics (the local circuit parts store) and my lookup table will be complete... suckers! On 1/24/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:11 +0100, alain Baeckeroot wrote: Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 19:56, Stuart A. Yeates a

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:11 +0100, alain Baeckeroot wrote: With 10^170 legal position for 19x19 what would be the size of this table ? I m afraid we cannot build it with all the matter in visible universe. I think the computer science greats should have consulted you before writing their

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Thomas Johnson
Turing Machines have an infinite tape -- I'm glad you set us straight on that. -Tom On 1/24/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:11 +0100, alain Baeckeroot wrote: With 10^170 legal position for 19x19 what would be the size of this table ? I m afraid we cannot

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 15:38 -0800, Thomas Johnson wrote: Turing Machines have an infinite tape -- I'm glad you set us straight on that. -Tom No they don't. The universe is too small to contain an infinite tape. - Don ___ computer-go mailing

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Fant
Sooo... Anybody write or optimize any cool computer Go algorithms lately? On 1/24/07, Thomas Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turing Machines have an infinite tape -- I'm glad you set us straight on that. -Tom On 1/24/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:11

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 18:48 -0500, Chris Fant wrote: Sooo... Anybody write or optimize any cool computer Go algorithms lately? Hey, aren't you the guy that thinks you can put a look-up table for 19x19 go on a computer?You're really dumb to think that. :-) - Don

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 18:48 -0500, Chris Fant wrote: Sooo... Anybody write or optimize any cool computer Go algorithms lately? Actually, I'm working on a data compression scheme that will allow you to build a 19x19 full game look-up table and store it on an SD card. I have already figured

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread steve uurtamo
AFAIK this is not a philosophical list about god power, although (sadly) it is rapidly becoming one. s. 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut.

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Don Dailey
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 01:27 +0100, alain Baeckeroot wrote: Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 22:34, Don Dailey a écrit : On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:11 +0100, alain Baeckeroot wrote: With 10^170 legal position for 19x19 what would be the size of this table ? I m afraid we cannot build it with

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 23:06, Jim O'Flaherty, Jr. a écrit : You can if you use some sort of compression scheme...involving multiple values per quanta. I bet there's more than enough room...in the universe...probably just in your eyelash. True i forgot about fantastic

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Lars Nilsson
On 1/24/07, alain Baeckeroot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True i forgot about fantastic quantum-computer, which so far solved only very specific and tiny problems or quantum mechanics. In the spirit of this, lets bring the quantum computer built at U of Illinois that computers its answer without

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 16:31 -0800, steve uurtamo wrote: AFAIK this is not a philosophical list about god power, although (sadly) it is rapidly becoming one. If you want to leave God out of it, we can use a different metaphor - how about what is possible with a computer that has infinite

Re: [computer-go] Best computer go development library?

2007-01-24 Thread Ray Tayek
At 02:52 PM 1/23/2007, you wrote: ... I'm interested in doing some experiments in developing a computer go algorithm. ... I'll probably be writing in C++ on Linux or C# on Windows, depending on the software available for each. take a look at http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/go/ it was in java, he

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Weston Markham
On a slightly (but not much) more serious note: The proposal that elicited (for better or for worse) Alain's size-of-the-universe comment was not for a complete table of all possible board states, but rather a table of winning moves. I expect that most positions will have multiple winning

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le jeudi 25 janvier 2007 02:16, Lars Nilsson a écrit : On 1/24/07, alain Baeckeroot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True i forgot about fantastic quantum-computer, which so far solved only very specific and tiny problems or quantum mechanics. In the spirit of this, lets bring the quantum computer

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le jeudi 25 janvier 2007 02:16, Lars Nilsson a écrit : In the spirit of this, lets bring the quantum computer built at U of Illinois that computers its answer without actually running.. By placing our photon in a quantum superposition of running and not running the search algorithm, we

Re: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

2007-01-24 Thread Weston Markham
On 1/24/07, Weston Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 282 possible moves Um. Dunno where I got that number from. (I meant 362, I think.) Weston ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] an idea... computer go program's rank vs time

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Gokey
Ray Tayek wrote: ... I can say that I don't feel overwhelmed when playing chess. ... Now with Go as a beginner still, on the other hand, I almost always felt and still feel quite overwhelmed ... yes, i usually feel this way in tournament games. and again more time will help (for some