Well, there may be some ways to short circuit the
combinatorics of go, (although I suspect they won't be
giving you much), but go has another, serious problem:
There is no easy way to evaluate a position. In chess you
can get a first order approximation just by counting pieces,
and maybe some other simple numbers, but in go, such
measures are almost worthless. Minor changes in the
configurations of the pieces will quickly turn an asset
into a liability. So, even if you could look 50 moves ahead
in no time, you could not use that for anything, because you
could not evaluate the relative values of the positions.
Even evaluating positions where human players have stopped
playing because the result is obvious, is not a trivial task.
It may still require a few local analyses some 20-40 moves
deep. Getting any of them wrong will gove you a totally
wrong picture of the situation. Things get even more complex
in the middle of the game...
And the combinatorics still stand. You mention human chess
players going 26 moves deep - even fairly inexperienced go
players read local sequences ("ladders") to 20 moves. Complex
life and death situations requirte about as deep reading, and that
is just one part of the situation - often there are several
on the board, with subtle interactions...
If you don't believe me, consider the fact that there are
very few people who can claim to beat a computer in
chess - but most club players beat any go program available
today. I believe I could teach a motivated but inexperienced
student to beat any go program within a month of full-time
work. And I am not that good... (5 kyu in Denmark)
Do not assume that people browse with just one
browser window. I can not speak for others, but
normally, when I leave a site, I close that browser
where that site was. It is not often I follow a link
out. If there are interesting links, I open them
in new windows. It is not uncommon for me to have
16-32 windows open, often on 2-4 desktops.
yes, I know there are tricks to discourage this sort
of browsing. Those also doscourage me from visiting
the sites, if I can find friendlier alternatives.
If the (meta)moderation pages count in the
ad-free page setup, I see a good reason to stop
(meta)moderating. Likewise, for posting comments
and submitting articles - worrying about ad counters
reduces the incentive for the most motivated and
thoughtful group of contributors, while not having much
effect on the junk posters, trolls, firstposts, and other
scum.
I still think this page counting punishes the most
valuable readers most. Charging a flat monthly fee
would give more - not less - value for active posters.
Next time I release some OS software, I
will license it under a modified GPL to anyone
except companies that put GPL-limiting clauses
in their licenses. At the time of writing only
Micro$soft has earned a place on this list.
Think of just one copy was found at M$,
we could collectively sue the shit out of them.
Get the BSA to audit them, and give them lots
of bad publicity.
Normally I don't bother with any CDs. When I know what
I want from it, I can as well get it off the web. When I
don't know, it is too much hazzle to stick it into a drive
and hope there is a good index. So, if you want people
to use the CD, put a good index of it into the book.
And vice versa - there is room for a complete index on
the CD: Every word of the book: Chapter, verse, and
page number. In some neat searchable format and in
plain greppable ascii text!
Other than that, I second the adivce given so far: Don't
bother for advanced readers, for beginners it might help.
Add whole text of the book on the CD, again in searchable
format and/or plain text.
I suspect it has something to do with the higher partials,
the cat hearing range goes pretty high - some say 100 KHz,
although not linearily. I have noticed that my CD player
does not disturb them, but when I play my harpsichord,
or the recorders (especially smaller ones), the cats tend
to leave the room.
Re:Where to put angular momentum
on
Hack in Space
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· Score: 3, Funny
Magnetorquer [...]for the attitude-control
of the satellite.
I don't know how they do it, but the guys making navigation
stuff for boats have been fighting with the same problems
for a while. Maybe they have found some good solutions?
Burr said the newest landforms look to be only about 10 million years old - very recent in geologic terms. [...]
Flood volcanism on Earth occurs about every tens of millions of years," McEwen said. "The last such event was 10 million years ago
so, what kind of event could have happened 10M years ago,
leaving traces of unusual water floods on two planets?
As an amateur composer, I can compose and
print a piece of music in a tenth of the time it would
take me to do by hand.
Composers like J.S. Bach could put up a cantata
for every sunday and get it copied and practice with the
singers and the orchestra, plus all the other stuff they
did, weddings, funerals and private students etc.
How many modern bands can produce a new album
every week? Computers or no computers?
I suppose you already have a thermometer sitting
outside your window. Hang a pine cone from it
with a short string. Now you can see
* Temperature (from the meter)
* Clouds (look out through the window)
* Wind speed (how fast the cone is dancing around)
* Humidity (how far the cone has opened)
* Snow (is there any on the cone)
That is about as much as you can ever see through a
window. If you need to know the wind direction, you
have to measure it on top of your home, or somewhat
away from any buildings. Same for a measurement of
its speed.
Of course, being on slashdot, the proper way is to let
someone else do the measuring, and read it off over
the net.
What would have happened if Henry Ford's business had been
killed in the beginning just because the horse carriage
industry had seen him as a serious threat, and bribed the
lawmakers to outlaw this stinking combustion engine. Where
would USA be today? And where would European car industy
be today, without American competition? Probably much ahead!
As an European, I have nothing against American Law putting
American business at a great disadvantage, as long as
they don't imply that us Europeans should accept the same
disadvantage just to protect American business...
but you can NEVER take into account what a user can/will do
I disagree, strongly. If a program accepts user input,
it ought to be prepared for anything. Accepting anything
else is a direct way to crashes, security probelms, abuses, and
other horrible things. Of course a program does not need
to perform well when put to a use it was not intended for,
but the least it can do is to fail gracefully. Yes, this means
that the programmers will have to pay attention to the
remaining 80% of the code, and yes, that is expensive.
Just imagine if car producers were blindly assuming that
nobody would drive over the speed limits, and would
always be able to control their vehicles. How much
cheaper cars they could produce! No need for seat belts,
air bags, stronger frames...
I am sure the same discussion happened in with
paper-based media, long time ago. I seem to recall
that a set of rules has been in effect (occasionally
encoded in the law) that specifies that advertisments
have to be somehow distingushable from the news
reported by the paper itself.
Naturally this is the high ideal, and almost no
newspaper can live up to it 100%, but anyway, history
shows that sometimes some guidelines can be
established and even followed, by and large.
The Web is different from paper media, of course, and
different situations require different rules, but to me the
it seems like we are repeating one old and well-known
problem here, and could learn from the way it was solved
in the past. Maybe some well informed slashdotter would
care to fill in the details for all of us to learn from?
Many companies , especially smaller ones have issues releasing their code even after their demise because of Ego issues, yes Ego, they write stuuf and will sell it , and some of it is a lame horrid hack.
Wonderful! Imagine what it would do the programmers if they knew that in some years, maybe three, maybe seven, their code would be posted for anyone to read. Imagine a programmer explaining to a manager that the code he's written may solve the problem today, but he won't have his name going public with it, because frankly, it sucks, and given another week, he'll write a much neater implementation of the same algorithm...
Imagine if a company had a clause releasing all their software under GPL in case of bankruptcy or takeover (keeping the copyright and honouring all existing license agreements, of course). Great guarantee for customers, and a bit of extra stability for the company.
If I had to buy mission-critical software, I would love to have such conditions in the agreement. Wouldn't you?
I'm sorry, but the 5 volts used in this project is far too low voltage to cure that sort of behaviour. Try with a bit of electronics, a little transformer, and most of all, two fine electrodes on the upper surface of the rodent... For timing the effect, trigger it with one of the buttons.
I am not sure if I misunderstood the article to say more than it did, or if most slashdot posters misunderstood it to say less. Anyway, the idea I read from the article was to combine the hierarchical structure of the directory tree with the visual clarity (for simple (L)users) of the desktop by showing every directory as a desktop, with proper icons for navigating around. Users would start with the desktop that correspond to/home/myself, but be able to move onto other desktops for specific projects (/home/myself/writing-my-book), have related files available there, and launch their applications on that desktop.
That is not so far from how I use my 8 KDE desktops, one is always for mail, one for the web, one for VmWare (some customers still insist to pay me for coding Windows stuff), one for real programming (3 consoles: editor, compile, and misc/man/another edit/...) carefully laid out to fill the screen...
The only problem is that with such a system the users would leave zillions of applications running everywhere. But that's why we keep getting faster computers...
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I think doctors are a respectable profession, not to be lumped together with accountants, lawyers, and other prostitutes.
Even evaluating positions where human players have stopped playing because the result is obvious, is not a trivial task. It may still require a few local analyses some 20-40 moves deep. Getting any of them wrong will gove you a totally wrong picture of the situation. Things get even more complex in the middle of the game...
And the combinatorics still stand. You mention human chess players going 26 moves deep - even fairly inexperienced go players read local sequences ("ladders") to 20 moves. Complex life and death situations requirte about as deep reading, and that is just one part of the situation - often there are several on the board, with subtle interactions...
If you don't believe me, consider the fact that there are very few people who can claim to beat a computer in chess - but most club players beat any go program available today. I believe I could teach a motivated but inexperienced student to beat any go program within a month of full-time work. And I am not that good... (5 kyu in Denmark)
Do not assume that people browse with just one browser window. I can not speak for others, but normally, when I leave a site, I close that browser where that site was. It is not often I follow a link out. If there are interesting links, I open them in new windows. It is not uncommon for me to have 16-32 windows open, often on 2-4 desktops.
yes, I know there are tricks to discourage this sort of browsing. Those also doscourage me from visiting the sites, if I can find friendlier alternatives.
I still think this page counting punishes the most valuable readers most. Charging a flat monthly fee would give more - not less - value for active posters.
Think of just one copy was found at M$, we could collectively sue the shit out of them. Get the BSA to audit them, and give them lots of bad publicity.
Well, one can dream...
Yes. Trains stop at train stations, buses stop at bus stations, on my desk I have a work station, and up there we have a space station...
Would it be that this was an April Fools joke? Or has someone seen those chemistry textbooks?
And vice versa - there is room for a complete index on the CD: Every word of the book: Chapter, verse, and page number. In some neat searchable format and in plain greppable ascii text! Other than that, I second the adivce given so far: Don't bother for advanced readers, for beginners it might help. Add whole text of the book on the CD, again in searchable format and/or plain text.
I suspect it has something to do with the higher partials, the cat hearing range goes pretty high - some say 100 KHz, although not linearily. I have noticed that my CD player does not disturb them, but when I play my harpsichord, or the recorders (especially smaller ones), the cats tend to leave the room.
Do they work on girlfriends as well?
I don't know how they do it, but the guys making navigation stuff for boats have been fighting with the same problems for a while. Maybe they have found some good solutions?
Too kind for them. No, we will deport them to Australia!
Flood volcanism on Earth occurs about every tens of millions of years," McEwen said. "The last such event was 10 million years ago
so, what kind of event could have happened 10M years ago, leaving traces of unusual water floods on two planets?
Perhaps an alien expedition taking samples?
Composers like J.S. Bach could put up a cantata for every sunday and get it copied and practice with the singers and the orchestra, plus all the other stuff they did, weddings, funerals and private students etc.
How many modern bands can produce a new album every week? Computers or no computers?
near the beginning of chromosome 1, in plain view for anyone to read: Frst Post
* Temperature (from the meter)
* Clouds (look out through the window)
* Wind speed (how fast the cone is dancing around)
* Humidity (how far the cone has opened)
* Snow (is there any on the cone)
That is about as much as you can ever see through a window. If you need to know the wind direction, you have to measure it on top of your home, or somewhat away from any buildings. Same for a measurement of its speed.
Of course, being on slashdot, the proper way is to let someone else do the measuring, and read it off over the net.
After all, most of us are reading this through a good chunk of transparent mixture of lead and sand! Yes, good quality glass used for CRT displays...
As an European, I have nothing against American Law putting American business at a great disadvantage, as long as they don't imply that us Europeans should accept the same disadvantage just to protect American business...
I disagree, strongly. If a program accepts user input, it ought to be prepared for anything. Accepting anything else is a direct way to crashes, security probelms, abuses, and other horrible things. Of course a program does not need to perform well when put to a use it was not intended for, but the least it can do is to fail gracefully. Yes, this means that the programmers will have to pay attention to the remaining 80% of the code, and yes, that is expensive. Just imagine if car producers were blindly assuming that nobody would drive over the speed limits, and would always be able to control their vehicles. How much cheaper cars they could produce! No need for seat belts, air bags, stronger frames...
Naturally this is the high ideal, and almost no newspaper can live up to it 100%, but anyway, history shows that sometimes some guidelines can be established and even followed, by and large.
The Web is different from paper media, of course, and different situations require different rules, but to me the it seems like we are repeating one old and well-known problem here, and could learn from the way it was solved in the past. Maybe some well informed slashdotter would care to fill in the details for all of us to learn from?
Heh, my two Danish addresses were carefully located into Russia and Greece. So much for reliability...
Wonderful! Imagine what it would do the programmers if they knew that in some years, maybe three, maybe seven, their code would be posted for anyone to read. Imagine a programmer explaining to a manager that the code he's written may solve the problem today, but he won't have his name going public with it, because frankly, it sucks, and given another week, he'll write a much neater implementation of the same algorithm...
Imagine if a company had a clause releasing all their software under GPL in case of bankruptcy or takeover (keeping the copyright and honouring all existing license agreements, of course). Great guarantee for customers, and a bit of extra stability for the company.
If I had to buy mission-critical software, I would love to have such conditions in the agreement. Wouldn't you?
I'm sorry, but the 5 volts used in this project is far too low voltage to cure that sort of behaviour. Try with a bit of electronics, a little transformer, and most of all, two fine electrodes on the upper surface of the rodent... For timing the effect, trigger it with one of the buttons.
Just what an ambulance chasing lawyer needs!
That is not so far from how I use my 8 KDE desktops, one is always for mail, one for the web, one for VmWare (some customers still insist to pay me for coding Windows stuff), one for real programming (3 consoles: editor, compile, and misc/man/another edit/...) carefully laid out to fill the screen...
The only problem is that with such a system the users would leave zillions of applications running everywhere. But that's why we keep getting faster computers...