Re: [computer-go] Optimizing combinations of flags

2009-11-26 Thread steve uurtamo
sorry to self-reply, but: > alternatively, it does sphere packing over the direct product of open > or closed (but bounded) intervals and discrete sets, so you can get a > set of points that is slightly better than a random set of experiments > (i.e. guaranteed to cover the space well). arguably

Re: [computer-go] Optimizing combinations of flags

2009-11-26 Thread steve uurtamo
> That doesn't seem to directly support deriving information from random > trials. For computer go tuning, would you play multiple games with each > parameter set in order to get a meaningful figure? That seems likely to > be less efficient than treating it as a bandit problem. you'd decide how ma

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hahn system tournament and MC bots

2009-11-26 Thread Vlad Dumitrescu
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:06, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: > Maybe have a look at signal processing, using higher-orders statistics ? >  mean >  std-deviation = order 2 (or 1 ?) >  ... > >  win by 10 with std = 100 seems much less secure than win by 5 with std=1 >  but maybe this is included in modern

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hahn system tournament and MC bots

2009-11-26 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 26/11/2009 à 10:08, Vlad Dumitrescu a écrit : > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 00:43, Darren Cook wrote: > > When I read this it reminded me of experiments I tried before to pass > > more than one piece of information up from the leaf nodes of a (min-max) > > tree. E.g. a territory estimate and an

Re: [computer-go] CUDA projects for Go?

2009-11-26 Thread Petr Baudis
Hi! On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:16:02PM +0200, Steve Kroon wrote: > I hope to have a student for the next month or two who can look into some > computer Go before starting his Masters degree. He is interested in using > CUDA > for his Masters, so I thought it would be nice for him to investigat

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hahn system tournament and MC bots

2009-11-26 Thread Vlad Dumitrescu
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 00:43, Darren Cook wrote: > When I read this it reminded me of experiments I tried before to pass > more than one piece of information up from the leaf nodes of a (min-max) > tree. E.g. a territory estimate and an influence estimate. I gave up as > it got too complex to han