Re: [computer-go] Correction in AGA eJournal...

2008-08-12 Thread David Doshay
Hi Bob, No problem at all ... it was inevitable that this would happen. I just found that the Oregonian, which printed that I wrote GNU Go, properly changed it to SlugGo in the on line version. What I am trying to understand now is how the New Scientist technology blog has me properly quo

Re: [computer-go] Correction in AGA eJournal...

2008-08-12 Thread Bob Hearn
Well you can blame me for linking to the AGA story on Slashdot, but at least I didn't repeat the misquote, and I also asked Chris to fix it on the AGA site. I figured it would probably make Slashdot quickly anyway, so the story might as well be written by someone with at least a bit of a cl

Re: [computer-go] Correction in AGA eJournal...

2008-08-12 Thread Sylvain Gelly
> the mistaken comment (9 stones in a year, computer superiority real soon) > is getting repeated a huge number of times. > As one of my computer science teacher said: "if your editor has the copy/paste feature, throw it away". It obviously applies to programming and apparently to publication as

Re: [computer-go] Correction in AGA eJournal...

2008-08-12 Thread David Doshay
I had asked Chris to print the correction, and he was glad to do so. Now I am trying to get the article on the AGA web site updated. I have already seen a bunch of things on the internet that link to it and the mistaken comment (9 stones in a year, computer superiority real soon) is getting

[computer-go] Correction in AGA eJournal...

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Waite
Just in case anyone hadn't seen the correction yet... * CORRECTION: *The EJ misquoted David Doshay in our 8/7 report on "Computer Beats Pro At U.S. Go Congress." "What I said is that computer programs have improved 7 to 9 stones in the last few years, [not "We've improved nine stones in just a year