'Too good'? The best go programs are still very weak compared to humans. These programs can be defeated by not particularly strong amateurs (unless Tokyo is keeping something secret from the rest of the world).
The relatively simple search techniques used in chess can't be applied to go, as the number of possible moves makes the space too big, so it may stay like this for some time (although some novel ideas are being tried). Tools like online joseki dictionaries could be useful (at least for an amateur), but that wouldn't help him with any of his reading.
How does the licensing work with this? If it's GPL, isn't it being linked (albeit in a kind of weird runtime way) with proprietary code? It seems a nice idea to write code in order to export the features of proprietary code into open software, but how do you distinguish it from programs that do the opposite?
The sounds from Lemmings bring a huge wave of nostalgia for me. All those tunes, and the sounds of lemmings dying. Mmmm. I spent far too long playing that game.
The article looked looked nice until it got to the part with AC ripple voltage. It says it shows a 10ms interval, and then gives graphs going up to 100k nanoseconds. And a single AC cycle is rather more than 10ms. All in all, this kind of thing makes it rather difficult to interpret the graphs in any way beyond 'ooh, that's a bit noisy'.
I suppose you can see a regular pattern in the Ion PSU, but that's probably not so much the AC as a result of it being a switching PSU.
Still, I think worrying about things like the voltage ripple is somewhat over the top. More important is stuff like getting the decoupling near the chips right, and that's not the PSU's problem.
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Like http://arbitrary.name/RayTracer.zip , you mean?
(And flattery won't get you the TPS report).
'Too good'? The best go programs are still very weak compared to humans. These programs can be defeated by not particularly strong amateurs (unless Tokyo is keeping something secret from the rest of the world).
The relatively simple search techniques used in chess can't be applied to go, as the number of possible moves makes the space too big, so it may stay like this for some time (although some novel ideas are being tried). Tools like online joseki dictionaries could be useful (at least for an amateur), but that wouldn't help him with any of his reading.
My guess is a pro. They're just scary.
How does the licensing work with this? If it's GPL, isn't it being linked (albeit in a kind of weird runtime way) with proprietary code? It seems a nice idea to write code in order to export the features of proprietary code into open software, but how do you distinguish it from programs that do the opposite?
The sounds from Lemmings bring a huge wave of nostalgia for me. All those tunes, and the sounds of lemmings dying. Mmmm. I spent far too long playing that game.
... pop pop pop pop)
(Oh no!
The article looked looked nice until it got to the part with AC ripple voltage. It says it shows a 10ms interval, and then gives graphs going up to 100k nanoseconds. And a single AC cycle is rather more than 10ms. All in all, this kind of thing makes it rather difficult to interpret the graphs in any way beyond 'ooh, that's a bit noisy'.
I suppose you can see a regular pattern in the Ion PSU, but that's probably not so much the AC as a result of it being a switching PSU.
Still, I think worrying about things like the voltage ripple is somewhat over the top. More important is stuff like getting the decoupling near the chips right, and that's not the PSU's problem.