Re: [computer-go] Grid Cosmos

2007-03-15 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
? - Don On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 07:04 -0700, Jim O'Flaherty, Jr. wrote: Eduardo, I am a strong Java advocate, no doubt. However, Mono/C# have accomplished quite a bit in the last 3 years. My own experience in that area tells me it is much more mature than you have made it sound. To get

Re: [computer-go] Bit Twiddling Hacks

2007-02-13 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
Erik, I am. Jim - Original Message From: Erik van der Werf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:37:13 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Bit Twiddling Hacks On 2/12/07, Phil G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those doing a lot of

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

2007-01-25 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
Terry, Where's the notion that through small increments, there is no reasonable path from a house 3 bedroom house to a 10 story building? Isn't the consistency of the assumption set around how a house is designed and built fundamentally (as in pardigm-ally) different than that of how

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] Mega transposition table

2007-01-19 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
they choose to optimize execution paths and data flows. Just figured that it would matter in C++/C in a similar way. Jim Don Dailey wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 17:19 -0600, Jim O'Flaherty, Jr. wrote: Don, So could you elaborate on where you are allocating space for big_array in your

Re: [computer-go] Making Java much faster

2006-11-30 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
Wodzu, There are roughly two types of approaches to bettering the skill of computer go solutions; incremental and breakthrough. I think for incremental solutions, ones where lots of work results in small shifts in better go playing performance, you are correct. Any optimizations around

Re: [computer-go] Making Java much faster

2006-11-29 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
Mark, It's true. My interpretation of Sun's documents: In the more recent versions of Java (1.4, 1.5, etc.), the runtime analysis in the -server option of Sun's Hotspot JVM is able to do several different types of optimization around potentially final and mostly final methods. The most

Re: [computer-go] .. if Monte-Carlo programs would play infinitestrong

2006-11-27 Thread Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.
Don (and others), Depending upon your definition of God, I think most of the God conversation is kind of silly. Given He is omnipotent, he has the ability to alter one of His created entities such that it is not possible to beat Him PRIOR to casting His reply as white. The alteration

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