[computer-go] Parallelism and Intel

2007-07-25 Thread Joshua Shriver
Intel just released a threading library under the GPL2 license. http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/ Thought it could be useful for people here who may want to utilize a multi CPU or multi core system. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list

[computer-go] Neural Networks

2007-07-20 Thread Joshua Shriver
Anyone recommend a good book on programming Neural Networks in C or C++? Been digging around the net for while and haven't come up with anything other than an encyclopedia-like definition/writeup. No examples or tutorials. Thanks! -Josh ___

Re: [computer-go] Draughts / Checkers solved

2007-07-19 Thread Joshua Shriver
Aye this sounds less like a checkers engine w/ AI and more like a checkers egtb generator to root position. Which is still impressive. I wonder how large the dataset is. Also fascinating is that it took 18 years of solid computation on ~50 computers. I've never heard of a sustained computation

[computer-go] Go datastructures

2007-07-19 Thread Joshua Shriver
Greetings, What kind of data structures do you all use for your engines, in respect to board representation and move generation. I know in chess bitboard, mailbox board[8][8], 0x88 exist all with their pro's and cons. Are there similar concepts for Go? -Josh

Re: [computer-go] Meeting at US Go Congress

2007-07-16 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'm kind of a newbie do you have a URL for the event? What is it like? -Josh On 7/16/07, Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US Go Congress begins in less than two weeks. I have two questions: 1. If you plan to attend, which days will you be there? 2. Will you be competing? (Not with a

Re: [computer-go] Meeting at US Go Congress

2007-07-16 Thread Joshua Shriver
it). I don't see it anymore. On 7/16/07, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm kind of a newbie do you have a URL for the event? What is it like? -Josh On 7/16/07, Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US Go Congress begins in less than two

Re: [computer-go] Meeting at US Go Congress

2007-07-16 Thread Joshua Shriver
it). I don't see it anymore. On 7/16/07, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm kind of a newbie do you have a URL for the event? What is it like? -Josh On 7/16/07, Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US Go Congress begins in less than two

Re: [computer-go] Meeting at US Go Congress

2007-07-16 Thread Joshua Shriver
] wrote: It's tempting for me, I'm only 5 1/2 hours away by car. I may be in Richmond that weekend which is only 4 hours away! - Don On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:53 +0100, Nick Wedd wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm kind of a newbie do you have

[computer-go] cgos: game rules

2007-07-16 Thread Joshua Shriver
Curious what game rules does CGOS use? I noticed when viewing some engines will pass pass and end, while some will play all the way till everything is pretty much filled in which I believe is Chinese rules. I'm a little confused over the rules so perhaps I'm not stating it correctly or not

Re: [computer-go] Re: Why are different rule sets?

2007-07-12 Thread Joshua Shriver
Been following this tread and it has me concerned both as a beginning player and engine developer. I thought the rules for Go were rather simplistic when it came to scoring: Count all eyes, and spaces owned by each player and each captured stone counted as a point. Whoever had the most points

Re: [computer-go] Re: Why are different rule sets?

2007-07-12 Thread Joshua Shriver
Does Chrilly have anything to do with this project? -Josh On 7/12/07, Richard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/12/07, Chris Fant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, gomputers are real: http://www.google.com/search?q=gomputer Maybe you were joking, but did you notice that one of the hits from

Re: [computer-go] Go programming as a profession.

2007-07-11 Thread Joshua Shriver
I have been a programmer for about 11 years professionally. Though I dont have a degree, dropped out my senior year due to the horrible cost of tuition and materials. -Josh On 7/11/07, Chris Fant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/11/07, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really know a place

Re: [computer-go] Go programming as a profession.

2007-07-11 Thread Joshua Shriver
, based on Gifu results. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Shriver Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:53 PM To: computer-go Subject: [computer-go] Go programming as a profession. Was looking up engines when I came across the Go

Re: [computer-go] Explanation to MoGo paper wanted.

2007-07-11 Thread Joshua Shriver
Perhaps some day a mad Dr. Frankenstein will implement massively parallel supercomputing using an array of brains in petri dishes. But it will still be the meat that is intelligent. It's the only substance capable of that. I read an article several months back where a researcher used mice

[computer-go] Go programming as a profession.

2007-07-10 Thread Joshua Shriver
Was looking up engines when I came across the Go++ website. Is it still the #1 engine in the world? Most of the titles on the page seem to refer to the late 90's and early 2000's. Anyway, the one thing that shocked me the most was Over 400,000 copies sold in Japan! At $39.95 that's just shy of

Re: [computer-go] SGF parsing

2007-07-09 Thread Joshua Shriver
strip comments, etc. All I really want from a program perspective is move lists and user ranking. -Josh On 7/9/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 11:49 -0400, Joshua Shriver wrote: I really like the pgn format, just viewing it you can get a feel for what is going on. I

Re: [computer-go] SGF parsing

2007-07-09 Thread Joshua Shriver
notation. Perhaps I'm wrong. -Josh On 7/9/07, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a good example of a regular Go game in sgf? A lot of the examples I found on the SGF spec site seem confusing, and not sure if they're even for Go or backgammon, etc. Also is there a command line go

Re: [computer-go] CGOS game records

2007-07-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
Greetings, I tried grabbing the cgos game db's but they don't appear to be valid. Is it down or have the files been moved? -Josh On 5/21/06, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have provided a way for anyone to retrieve all the CGOS game records due to many requests for all or part of the

[computer-go] seeking definition explanation

2007-07-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
What are and what is the difference in a fuseki and a joseki? To my understanding they are both, what in chess we call opening move libraries. So not sure why the double term or if there is a difference between the two. Also anyone know where I can find a good database (any open format) for

Re: [computer-go] Re: 9x9 games wanted

2007-07-06 Thread Joshua Shriver
I believe the cgos server keeps all of it's games. Though those are all computer games. Might help -Josh On 7/6/07, Tom Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be worth asking the administrators of some go servers if they would be prepared to give you copies of some games. At 17:09

[computer-go] cgosviewer and 19x19

2007-06-09 Thread Joshua Shriver
I am running dogbot now for 19x19. However I can't figure out how to view the games on 19x19 using the cgosviewer. I tried digging threw past emails but can't find the answer. Can someone repost? -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list

[computer-go] OSS or Free Engines

2007-06-09 Thread Joshua Shriver
Anyone have a list and URL's for all of the open source and/or free engines? -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

[computer-go] 19x19

2007-06-09 Thread Joshua Shriver
I have some hardware I'd like to use to put some engines on the 19x19 server. So far I have dog and gnugo running. If there are any others I have a constant connection and some more CPU power I'd like to use. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'll run Dog if you send me the binary. I have a 3ghz P4 w/ HT online 24/7 -Josh On 6/7/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed there is almost no activity on the 19x19 server. I don't have the computing power to run bots on both servers, but I remember there were some volunteers.

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 almost ready.

2007-05-22 Thread Joshua Shriver
I can run one. Let me know I can set it up tonight. -Josh On 5/22/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok the 19x19 server is almost ready. I would like to get 3 or 4 volunteers to run a copy of the Anchor. The Anchor will be GnuGo 3.7.10 with these parameters: gnugo --mode gtp --score

Re: [computer-go] 9x9 vs 19x19 (was: computer-go Digest)

2007-05-21 Thread Joshua Shriver
I agree 9x9 is wonderful, but a 19x19 for deep testing would be nice. To many variations and you risk the threat of diluting the engine pool. -Josh On 5/21/07, Heikki Levanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:13:09PM -0400, Chris Fant wrote: Why not 13x13 before 19x19?

[computer-go] CGOS

2007-05-04 Thread Joshua Shriver
I grabbed the CGOS viewer today to watch some games, really nifty :) Though I was wondering, what does W+Resign mean? White resigned or that white won by resignation? One game in particular with that designation White could have easily won so not sure what it meant. Also, there seems to be many

Re: [computer-go] GTP3 should be UGI

2007-04-11 Thread Joshua Shriver
Sounds good, but the xboard protocol is also very nice. Though a UGI sounds like a good step. -Josh On 4/11/07, Chrilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am implementing currently for the Suzie-GUI GTP-2. I think this protocoll has a number of shortcomings. a) There is only a very strange way to

Re: [computer-go] cgos viewer

2007-04-10 Thread Joshua Shriver
Sweet program! Was taking a look at one of the games. Very nice interface for linux. -Josh On 4/10/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you got it from the wrong place! Good - we can solve your problem then! Go here: http://cgos.boardspace.net/9x9/index.html and I think you will

Re: [computer-go] Grid Cosmos

2007-03-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'll host it for you here in the US. -Josh On 3/9/07, 吉井裕人 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry... I forgot to add some important information. As you wrote, the program needs .NET framework 2.0 and has a big size. The big size (over 150MB) is due to a big pattern dictionary size. A week ago, I

[computer-go] Neat article about object identification

2007-03-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
I came across this on slashdot today. Could this be used in Go programming for identifying strong structures. Quote from slashdot: Jeff Hawkins is best known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, but for the last eighteen months he's been working on his third company, Numenta. In his 2005

Re: [computer-go] Go hardware?

2007-03-06 Thread Joshua Shriver
I've always been fascinated with things like this, especially FPGA boards. Though from every article or post I've read concerning (at least chess) and things like FPGA, video cards... the bug speed is to slow to really be effective. -Josh On 3/5/07, Chris Fant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe

Re: [computer-go] Go hardware?

2007-03-06 Thread Joshua Shriver
: Has anyone tried writing code for Go what would work in parallel? Would something like NVIDIA CUDA be useful? http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html --josh On 3/6/07, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aye I wont discredit the power that can be obtained, just how much

Re: [computer-go] Why not forums?

2007-02-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
I've had a computer go forum running for a while but has low traffic. http://www.olympuschess.com/phpBB2 -josh On 2/4/07, Dmitry Kamenetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Why can't we use proper forums instead of this outdated list? Forums are easier to keep track of and search for

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

2007-01-23 Thread Joshua Shriver
My 500mhz computer beats me fairly easy ;) with Gnugo so depends on the person you're comparing. -Josh On 1/23/07, Nick Apperson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is something I have been wrestling with. It is kind of a theoretical question. Assuming a program that utilizes all avaliable

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-12 Thread Joshua Shriver
White in 42 moves ;) Have a good weekend everyone. -Josh that, a perfectly fair komi could be calculated. From what I know, even chess is still unsolved conserning this matter - noone knows if white (or even black) can force a win. ___ computer-go

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-12 Thread Joshua Shriver
I agree, anyone play othello/Reversi? From my understanding it has been solved. Yet when I try to find info on reversi computer tournaments they all seemed to die out several years ago. -Josh On 1/12/07, Chrilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides the technical question if it is possible,

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