If you think the total number of states of chess is large, think about the total sequences Go has.
Go is played on a 19x19 board, on the intersections. You start with an empty board, where black goes first (This is an even game. In handicapped games, it's a bit different). There is only two restrictions where you can place a stone, 'ko' (a situation where both players can take each other's stone repeatedly) and you cannot place a stone where it would be captured.
Since I'm not a maths theorist or anything, I'll just calculate the total sequences for the first 10 moves. And it won't be elegant.
It may not be correct, but let's just see what number that gives us.
33147774514824216526540800 (done in bc)
Pretty large number for only the first ten moves. Now lets try (19 ^ 2) ^ ((19 ^ 2) / 2), just to make it simple. This will only simulate a game where half the board is filled with stones, and no captures are made.
If 10 ^ 126 is a frickin' lot of energy, imagine how much energy this would take. Just for a simple game of Go.
Go programs' strength average around 10-kyu, not much better than an average amateur.
Chess' complexity simply pales against the likes of Go. So, if there is a program that can beat a professional (more than 8-dan), I will be very, very impressed.
Senator Eggleston described Senator Alston as the
greatest communications minister Australia had ever had, saying that during his term as communications minister the nation had seen great improvement in telecommunications services, particularly in rural Australia.
I had some bad experiences with 2.3.5, which caused me to just go and reformat and reinstall again (had too much junk on drives too).
One major problem I noticed was that Sawfish wasn't working properly with the pager. Every time I tried to change workspaces, the windows go flying all over the place. And with metacity, I can't seem to position my shaded XMMS window above the empty space in the top panel.
And does anyone know if somebody's doing/done the ebuild for 2.4?
You realise if they do actually make running anything other than run Microsoft products against the rules, kids are more likely to disobey. Most kids are rebellious, and they like to stand out, to be different.
To be l33t.
I feel l33t because I'm the only person who uses linux in the whole school (sysadmins included):p.
On another note, our school would greatly benefit from ANY sort out IT help. Either they don't subnet or have good bridges. When a class logs on the Novell-based network, the whole network goes to pieces.
It's not every day you walk down to the helpdesk and see half the staff hunt-and-pecking with two fingers.
I mean, why would anyone waste their time to prove Kansas is flatter than a friggin pancake? Sure, we've seen pretty pointless things on slashdot, but in what way is this gonna help us discover The Meaning Of Life?
They should use their time to find out The Meaning Of Life.
Considering the server program for Ragnarok is easily accessable on the net, there is probably much more people playing RO because people can host their private servers if they have the hardware and bandwidth.
Well, the major only hacked into the guy's navigation system, and didn't force him to do anything, but it showed a large jam up ahead, so he got off the highway.
While hacking the traffic light system would affect more than the intended player, hacking their nav system would be less intrusive to the rest of the traffic.
In one episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, a device very similar to the one linked was shown, except much more detailed. However, the major was able to hack into it and make it show an accident on a bridge, forcing the bad guy to take an alternate route, easily apprehending him.
"I was brought up with Treasure Island and Wordsworth and all the great poets, and it gave me a love of those which I still have today at 67. Literature gives you a lifetime of pleasure. I wouldn't have that if I had been playing on a PlayStation."
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Point of the game is to see how fast you can whack your thing! You place your package in front of the camera, wait for the countdown, AND OFF YOU GO!
Stimulation not included.
If this guy is testing stuff so stupid people don't cause themselves bodily injury, why don't we remove warning labels and let the problem solve itself?:P
Bill Can't even get his product names right.
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"We bet on the NT technology base" -- Bill Gates
Wtf? New Technology Technology? Can't Bill get his own products straight?
Why not just show/tell us where Linux supposedly stole SCO's source code and let the public decide? Or is the code so sloppy it would be a disgrace for SCO in the first place?
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/* checking if SCO is still alive... 4235 lawsuits to date... not ok. */
or
/* TODO: Debug. */
and
/* TODO: Do all TODOs */
"We're
'...' very committed to respecting others' intellectual property, and we request the same respect applied to our innovations and those of our partners," the company said in the statement.
Hmm... a bit of a pause there. Respecting others' intellectual property mah ass!
I don't think this would be useful to anyone except people who make online encyclopedias. Many online encyclopedias use a video-text format for conveying multimedia information to the user, but this wouldn't be feasible to the average user.
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If you think the total number of states of chess is large, think about the total sequences Go has.
7 58933986236005891626399446797707097420467137712625 30248956372964427814806611364222697658052744235366 07216617594180996820205758206078300865047460451496 71279695411300948553716685088048372686299464420447 83716355632768205849612093612903206606491136072744 05859807802611091046588995611364822335164659068180 23960517953048171586213593050675848790270895396181 75910922986480450845192545768285400487510964024764 65994480801
7 58933986236005891626399446797707097420467137712625 30248956372964427814806611364222697658052744235366 07216617594180996820205758206078300865047460451496 71279695411300948553716685088048372686299464420447 83716355632768205849612093612903206606491136072744 05859807802611091046588995611364822335164659068180 23960517953048171586213593050675848790270895396181 75910922986480450845192545768285400487510964024764 65994480801 =~ 2.4317 * 10 ^ 436
Go is played on a 19x19 board, on the intersections. You start with an empty board, where black goes first (This is an even game. In handicapped games, it's a bit different). There is only two restrictions where you can place a stone, 'ko' (a situation where both players can take each other's stone repeatedly) and you cannot place a stone where it would be captured.
Since I'm not a maths theorist or anything, I'll just calculate the total sequences for the first 10 moves. And it won't be elegant.
(19 ^ 2) * (19^2 - 1) * (19 ^ 2 - 2) * (19 ^ 2 - 3) * (19 ^ 2 - 4) * (19 ^ 2 - 5) * (19 ^ 2 - 6) * (19 ^ 2 - 7) * (19 ^ 2 - 8) * (19 ^ 2 - 9)
It may not be correct, but let's just see what number that gives us.
33147774514824216526540800 (done in bc)
Pretty large number for only the first ten moves. Now lets try (19 ^ 2) ^ ((19 ^ 2) / 2), just to make it simple. This will only simulate a game where half the board is filled with stones, and no captures are made.
2245413570374148024731298658397014793717866229807
Going with the analogy above, you would only need one bit to store if the stone is black or white. Then, this board will need 361 bits.
361 * 3 * 10^-26 = 1.0830 * 10 ^ -23
1.0830 * 10 ^ -23 * 2245413570374148024731298658397014793717866229807
If 10 ^ 126 is a frickin' lot of energy, imagine how much energy this would take. Just for a simple game of Go.
Go programs' strength average around 10-kyu, not much better than an average amateur.
Chess' complexity simply pales against the likes of Go. So, if there is a program that can beat a professional (more than 8-dan), I will be very, very impressed.
Why haven't they agreed on a standard format for DVDs yet? I can't keep track of the -s and +s.
WTF?
Here is the 'mirrored' solution.
I had some bad experiences with 2.3.5, which caused me to just go and reformat and reinstall again (had too much junk on drives too).
/.! w00t!
One major problem I noticed was that Sawfish wasn't working properly with the pager. Every time I tried to change workspaces, the windows go flying all over the place. And with metacity, I can't seem to position my shaded XMMS window above the empty space in the top panel.
And does anyone know if somebody's doing/done the ebuild for 2.4?
And on another note: My first article on
I thought Elliptic Curve only existed in Uplink until I read this article :p
You realise if they do actually make running anything other than run Microsoft products against the rules, kids are more likely to disobey. Most kids are rebellious, and they like to stand out, to be different.
:p.
To be l33t.
I feel l33t because I'm the only person who uses linux in the whole school (sysadmins included)
On another note, our school would greatly benefit from ANY sort out IT help. Either they don't subnet or have good bridges. When a class logs on the Novell-based network, the whole network goes to pieces.
It's not every day you walk down to the helpdesk and see half the staff hunt-and-pecking with two fingers.
I thought it was named Max Payne for Max Pain...
I mean, why would anyone waste their time to prove Kansas is flatter than a friggin pancake? Sure, we've seen pretty pointless things on slashdot, but in what way is this gonna help us discover The Meaning Of Life?
They should use their time to find out The Meaning Of Life.
"A 1994 agreement between Verizon and the state of Pennsylvania paid..."
"...voted to totally ignore the 1995 agreement, after Verizon's..."
Typo? Which is which?
What is a Russian software developer making gauss guns for? Isn't he supposed to be making lethal software?
Make it so you can change the authentication sound. I'd change mine to my fart, as it's the most noticable sound around :o
75.3% of statistics are made up on the spot ;)
And on a more serious note, I bet M$ is exaggeratting on the statistics again. I can't find the link for it on slashdot.
WTF?!
:o
I mean, if they had sexier looking chicks, maybe, but that is just horribly wrong
Considering the server program for Ragnarok is easily accessable on the net, there is probably much more people playing RO because people can host their private servers if they have the hardware and bandwidth.
Well, the major only hacked into the guy's navigation system, and didn't force him to do anything, but it showed a large jam up ahead, so he got off the highway.
While hacking the traffic light system would affect more than the intended player, hacking their nav system would be less intrusive to the rest of the traffic.
In one episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, a device very similar to the one linked was shown, except much more detailed. However, the major was able to hack into it and make it show an accident on a bridge, forcing the bad guy to take an alternate route, easily apprehending him.
Could this be used in real life, I wonder?
"I was brought up with Treasure Island and Wordsworth and all the great poets, and it gave me a love of those which I still have today at 67. Literature gives you a lifetime of pleasure. I wouldn't have that if I had been playing on a PlayStation."
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"Masturbation - The Game"
Point of the game is to see how fast you can whack your thing! You place your package in front of the camera, wait for the countdown, AND OFF YOU GO!
Stimulation not included.
Why don't we put this guy out of a job?
:P
If this guy is testing stuff so stupid people don't cause themselves bodily injury, why don't we remove warning labels and let the problem solve itself?
"We bet on the NT technology base" -- Bill Gates
Wtf? New Technology Technology? Can't Bill get his own products straight?
Why not just show/tell us where Linux supposedly stole SCO's source code and let the public decide? Or is the code so sloppy it would be a disgrace for SCO in the first place?
/* checking if SCO is still alive... 4235 lawsuits to date... not ok. */
/* TODO: Debug. */
/* TODO: Do all TODOs */
--
or
and
Hmm... a bit of a pause there. Respecting others' intellectual property mah ass!
I don't think this would be useful to anyone except people who make online encyclopedias. Many online encyclopedias use a video-text format for conveying multimedia information to the user, but this wouldn't be feasible to the average user.
It's good to see OSS solutions being used on a commercial basis. Maybe this will let FLAC get more publicity, along with the whole OSS movement :D