Kasparov's second match against Deep Blue, or his world championship matches.
Isn't Kasparov one of the top players in the world, if not the very top? I've read in some articles that he's considered by some to be the best player ever.
Certainly over the course of his career, he was the best player ever, and he is still #1 in the ratings lists. However, he doesn't seem to be as dominant anymore in multi-game matches as he used to be. In his matches against Kramnik and now Deep Junior, he seemed to play more timidly than he used to.
I also thought that the Kramnik-Fritz match was less than outstanding play. Both Kramnik and Kasparov took early leads playing well. Then, they got careless and let the computers come back, and then they got too timid to press for wins in the remaining games.
My analogy is about conducting an illegal business under the guise of a legal business that is actually financially much less important.
Questions of legality aside, I think Heroin dealing is a more legitimate business than organizing swap meets for stolen property, even if it's "just" intellectual property.
But they claim that the RIAA is impeding their business in the US, which implies that they conduct business that is being impeded.
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That's like claiming that your Heroin trading outfit is legal because now and then, you DO deliver pizzas.
Besides, I see this lawsuit as a double edged sword. By filing this lawsuit, Kazaa kind of admits that they do conduct business in the U.S., while simultaneously they go to great lengths to assert that they are incorporated in Vanatu.
And back then, everyone tried to find a way to sell everything possible online; some found success ( ex. books/videos/CDs with Amazon, CDnow, etc )
Actually, make that just Amazon (They just took over CDnow). Amazon seems to be pretty much the only pure internet retailer that is profitable, and at their current pace, it's going to take them decades to recoup their initial losses.
I still am of the opinion that in the end a neural network model can be superior. Human chess players are not based on a deterministic model a la Fritz or Blue, yet still beat them.
Not too many human players do. Deep Blue was probably within the top 10 human players, and at blitz speeds better than any human.
On a different note, Fritz is going to get a thorough beating.
Yes. I found it rather embarassing how everybody involved in the match tried to talk up Deep Fritz as a serious competitor.
Now, what is needed is either a LOT more processing power to search for the right moves, or a little unpredictability (which I think would be better).
Unpredictability is not going to help much. And neither is a Beowulf cluster, BTW, because an alpha-beta search doesn't profit much from coarse grain parallelization. The reason Deep Blue was so strong was the special purpose hardware which allowed it to e.g. compute almost arbitrarily complex position evaluation functions at constant cost.
Though you can train Fritz depending on what game databases you feed it, it still plays like a computer. Contrast this with the fact that a program called Arasan beat Vishwanathan Anand (currently no. 2) in a best of three Blitz tournament, because it had trained on Anand's games, AND, the programming team drastically changed it's playing style before the match.
Computer programs tend to do much better against humans in blitz, because their strength doesn't drop nearly as much at faster speeds.
Deep blue was much more powerfull then the computer running Fritz, and it was not just deep blue facing Kasperov, but some great chess players aided by a computer playing against Kasperovs style.
That's highly misleading. The Deep Blue team had some strong players help, but the games themselves were played without human intervention.
Plus unless the rules are different then any way of playing best of 8 I can think of the match could end after 2 more games (4.5 to.5) or 5 more for a total of 8 games.
From the official site of the event, it appears that the full 8 games are going to be played under all circumstances.
Oh yeah, I can picture the result of making Nigeria Open Source:
From: Robert M. Stallman <rms@gnu.ng> Subject: Request for Urgent Business Assistance
Your contact was availed to me by the the Lagos Linux User's Group.
I am Robert M. Stallman, the younger brother of Richard M. Stallman. I have the privilege of being mandated by my brother's colleagues to seek your immediate and urgent co-operation to receive into your bank account the sum of US $25m.
This money was obtained through sales of Emacs manuals in Nigeria, and as the treasurer of the Nigerian branch of the Free Software Foundation, I decided that this money wanted to be free...
Yes, I think the one in Zurich has been there at least 20 years. When it first opened, all shops in Zurich closed at 6:30PM by law, and even today, you won't find much open after 8PM, and certainly nothing open 24 hours.
I don't think the shop had much of a vandalism problem, although at times it attracted a pretty rough crowd in the early morning hours (Ten years ago, the Heroin scene was pretty close to the main station, and even today, many of the Zurich homeless, although there aren't all that many, hang around main station). It's built pretty solidly.
While I agree that Literate Programming is a promising concept and Leo is a promising approach to that concept, and while it's great to see some buzz for LP, Leo is not really a "new program".
As far as I remember, it has been around in some form for more than 5 years, although the Python incarnation may indeed be new (Leo started its life as a Macintosh application).
If you look at the release history of MacOS, the current pace is not all that unusual. The emerging pattern is about one "major" and one "intermediate" update a year, with a number of "minor" updates sprinkled in, i.e.:
The year 2000 did not quite fit that pattern, because of the 9/10 generation change (A similar gap to the 6/7 generation change in 1988-1991).
2001 was unusual because it had the last few 9 updates. The number of minor updates is increasing somewhat, because they can now be delivered semi-automatically through internet software updates.
I appreciate your sentiments, and mostly agree with them, but for the sake of historical record, I should point out that popen() gives you a considerable subset of the functionality that you found so amazing in NSTask.
I just checked my procmail logs. How many spam messages do you think I got today? 221 messages! In one fucking day! [...] In contrast, even counting high-traffic mailing lists, I got 41 real messages today [...] This is the price I pay for having been "on the Internet" since 1986. Yup, you read that right -- sixteen years ago.
Similar here (although I've only been online since 1990 or so). What's even worse is that if I ever fail to delete spam for a few days, my (free) mailbox goes over quota and the few legitimate messages can't get delivered anymore.
IMHO, there is nothing wrong with charging people according to how much bandwidth they use.
The problem with cable pricing is that generally, companies have a monopoly on their areas and therefore users don't have any choice beyond paying whatever rate is decreed or accessing the internet by some other (and often inferior) method.
If the market for cable services were opened, I'd see no problem with companies imposing whatever pricing structure they see fit.
I've programmed in classic MacOS for 17 years, and I've actually contributed to MacOS 9. However, I upgraded my home Mac when 10.1 came out and never looked back.
MacOS 9 had a great existence, but MacOS X is superior in every way.
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"While the quality of play was not outstanding"
Just what are we comparing this to?
Kasparov's second match against Deep Blue, or his world championship matches.
Isn't Kasparov one of the top players in the world, if not the very top? I've read in some articles that he's considered by some to be the best player ever.
Certainly over the course of his career, he was the best player ever, and he is still #1 in the ratings lists. However, he doesn't seem to be as dominant anymore in multi-game matches as he used to be. In his matches against Kramnik and now Deep Junior, he seemed to play more timidly than he used to.
I also thought that the Kramnik-Fritz match was less than outstanding play. Both Kramnik and Kasparov took early leads playing well. Then, they got careless and let the computers come back, and then they got too timid to press for wins in the remaining games.
My analogy is about conducting an illegal business under the guise of a legal business that is actually financially much less important.
Questions of legality aside, I think Heroin dealing is a more legitimate business than organizing swap meets for stolen property, even if it's "just" intellectual property.
But they claim that the RIAA is impeding their business in the US, which implies that they conduct business that is being impeded.
That's like claiming that your Heroin trading outfit is legal because now and then, you DO deliver pizzas.
Besides, I see this lawsuit as a double edged sword. By filing this lawsuit, Kazaa kind of admits that they do conduct business in the U.S., while simultaneously they go to great lengths to assert that they are incorporated in Vanatu.
And back then, everyone tried to find a way to sell everything possible online; some found success ( ex. books/videos/CDs with Amazon, CDnow, etc )
Actually, make that just Amazon (They just took over CDnow). Amazon seems to be pretty much the only pure internet retailer that is profitable, and at their current pace, it's going to take them decades to recoup their initial losses.
Can someone please tell me honestly why I should start getting into Nethack?
One somewhat obscure, but perfectly practical reason is that nethack is an excellent training tool for vi motion commands (and vice versa, of course).
Not too many human players do. Deep Blue was probably within the top 10 human players, and at blitz speeds better than any human.
Whatever happened to "Nobody ever got fired for switching to Windows?"
Come to think of it, isn't having to use Windows punishment enough for the poor lady?
Propz to my dead Kernelz!
Yes. I found it rather embarassing how everybody involved in the match tried to talk up Deep Fritz as a serious competitor.
Now, what is needed is either a LOT more processing power to search for the right moves, or a little unpredictability (which I think would be better).
Unpredictability is not going to help much. And neither is a Beowulf cluster, BTW, because an alpha-beta search doesn't profit much from coarse grain parallelization. The reason Deep Blue was so strong was the special purpose hardware which allowed it to e.g. compute almost arbitrarily complex position evaluation functions at constant cost.
Though you can train Fritz depending on what game databases you feed it, it still plays like a computer. Contrast this with the fact that a program called Arasan beat Vishwanathan Anand (currently no. 2) in a best of three Blitz tournament, because it had trained on Anand's games, AND, the programming team drastically changed it's playing style before the match.
Computer programs tend to do much better against humans in blitz, because their strength doesn't drop nearly as much at faster speeds.
That's highly misleading. The Deep Blue team had some strong players help, but the games themselves were played without human intervention.
Plus unless the rules are different then any way of playing best of 8 I can think of the match could end after 2 more games (4.5 to .5) or 5 more for a total of 8 games.
From the official site of the event, it appears that the full 8 games are going to be played under all circumstances.
Oh yeah, I can picture the result of making Nigeria Open Source:
From: Robert M. Stallman <rms@gnu.ng>
Subject: Request for Urgent Business Assistance
Your contact was availed to me by the the Lagos Linux User's Group.
I am Robert M. Stallman, the younger brother of Richard M. Stallman. I have the privilege of being mandated by my brother's colleagues to seek your immediate and urgent co-operation to receive into your bank account the sum of US $25m.
This money was obtained through sales of Emacs manuals in Nigeria, and as the treasurer of the Nigerian branch of the Free Software Foundation, I decided that this money wanted to be free...
Your Windows/Office tax dollars at work.
Yes, I think the one in Zurich has been there at least 20 years. When it first opened, all shops in Zurich closed at 6:30PM by law, and even today, you won't find much open after 8PM, and certainly nothing open 24 hours.
I don't think the shop had much of a vandalism problem, although at times it attracted a pretty rough crowd in the early morning hours (Ten years ago, the Heroin scene was pretty close to the main station, and even today, many of the Zurich homeless, although there aren't all that many, hang around main station). It's built pretty solidly.
While I agree that Literate Programming is a promising concept and Leo is a promising approach to that concept, and while it's great to see some buzz for LP, Leo is not really a "new program".
As far as I remember, it has been around in some form for more than 5 years, although the Python incarnation may indeed be new (Leo started its life as a Macintosh application).
I appreciate your sentiments, and mostly agree with them, but for the sake of historical record, I should point out that popen() gives you a considerable subset of the functionality that you found so amazing in NSTask.
A blue-and-white 350MHz G3 is actually *exactly* what I'm running MacOS X 10.1 on, and it runs great (I gave the machine a lot of memory, though).
Similar here (although I've only been online since 1990 or so). What's even worse is that if I ever fail to delete spam for a few days, my (free) mailbox goes over quota and the few legitimate messages can't get delivered anymore.
IMHO, there is nothing wrong with charging people according to how much bandwidth they use.
The problem with cable pricing is that generally, companies have a monopoly on their areas and therefore users don't have any choice beyond paying whatever rate is decreed or accessing the internet by some other (and often inferior) method.
If the market for cable services were opened, I'd see no problem with companies imposing whatever pricing structure they see fit.
Shouldn't that be VAX salesmen?
I've programmed in classic MacOS for 17 years, and I've actually contributed to MacOS 9. However, I upgraded my home Mac when 10.1 came out and never looked back.
MacOS 9 had a great existence, but MacOS X is superior in every way.
"Lord of the Rings: The Orc Who Wasn't There"
You can choose not to install most BSD *commands*, but the essential part of the BSD layer is the BSD *APIs* in the kernel, which are not optional.