I agree with you, but remember, history classes (like any other classes for that matter) are only as interesting as the teacher.
On the subject of calculus, I disagree. I don't use it, but I can easily imagine a few cases where it can be useful: signal processing, compression, etc. Calculus is the basis of a lot of stuff that's out there.
As I write this, I remember my girlfriend asking me to name one practical everyday of logarithms. I couldn't come up with any:( You might be right after all...
My COBOL & LISP classes, I definitly could've lived without.
JPM.
IMHO, it's ridiculous that there are no courses in Universities that relate to the history of couputing. I think that every Computer Science major should at least learn who invented the important stuff. Maybe all this technology is still too young to be considered important in the history of the modern world, but TCP/IP did in fact have as much (if not more) influence on the average Joe's everyday life as the theory of relativity...
This is an interesting project, however, It does raise a few questions...
Which Windows flavor will they clone? NT4, 2000, ME, 98? As we know, there are quite a few differences in between each OS, and when writing software for cross-platform compatibility, you encouter weird stuff. I mean, It's about impossible to emulate all the versions at once since the apps that are out there do lot's of stuff that's non-portable between all the versions... (e.g. which version of TweakUI would function under such an OS)?
Also, will this Open Source OS behave like the real Windows, or will it work like the documentation says it should. Lots of API functions are poorly documented and this could be a huge obstacle in development, although the doc seems to get better with each release of MSDN.
The number of possible board configurations in go is 3^361, which is larger than the number of atoms in the universe. Why don't you find out when Moore's Law will make that possible... I doubt that a brute force approach, even if possible at all, would be appropriate.
The brute-force approach used for chess is simply out of question since there are too much possibilities. As for move catalogs, they can be used for some situations, but not for game strategy. And strategy, as opposed to tactics, is what go is about.
Until someone figures out a way to teach a computer to think for himself, a good go computer player won't exist. I don't think we'll be seeing that soon.
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I agree with you, but remember, history classes (like any other classes for that matter) are only as interesting as the teacher. On the subject of calculus, I disagree. I don't use it, but I can easily imagine a few cases where it can be useful: signal processing, compression, etc. Calculus is the basis of a lot of stuff that's out there. As I write this, I remember my girlfriend asking me to name one practical everyday of logarithms. I couldn't come up with any :( You might be right after all...
My COBOL & LISP classes, I definitly could've lived without.
JPM.
IMHO, it's ridiculous that there are no courses in Universities that relate to the history of couputing. I think that every Computer Science major should at least learn who invented the important stuff. Maybe all this technology is still too young to be considered important in the history of the modern world, but TCP/IP did in fact have as much (if not more) influence on the average Joe's everyday life as the theory of relativity...
70000 seems a lot.
Maybe they used a faulty Pentium to count that... Anyways, I hope that the master list isn't in MSWord format...
Well, I *thought* it was food!
J:P
This is an interesting project, however, It does raise a few questions...
Which Windows flavor will they clone? NT4, 2000, ME, 98? As we know, there are quite a few differences in between each OS, and when writing software for cross-platform compatibility, you encouter weird stuff. I mean, It's about impossible to emulate all the versions at once since the apps that are out there do lot's of stuff that's non-portable between all the versions... (e.g. which version of TweakUI would function under such an OS)?
Also, will this Open Source OS behave like the real Windows, or will it work like the documentation says it should. Lots of API functions are poorly documented and this could be a huge obstacle in development, although the doc seems to get better with each release of MSDN.
Just wondering...
JP
The number of possible board configurations in go is 3^361, which is larger than the number of atoms in the universe. Why don't you find out when Moore's Law will make that possible... I doubt that a brute force approach, even if possible at all, would be appropriate.
Get a clue. It ain't chess.
Computers can't play a decent game of Go.
The brute-force approach used for chess is simply out of question since there are too much possibilities. As for move catalogs, they can be used for some situations, but not for game strategy. And strategy, as opposed to tactics, is what go is about.
Until someone figures out a way to teach a computer to think for himself, a good go computer player won't exist. I don't think we'll be seeing that soon.
JP