Life In 19x19

Araban wrote:It's not a time waster, but coding and Infected Mushroom seem to go rather well together for some reason.

I LOVE to code to Infected Mushroom!
When I need a break from that I turn to some baroque music.

I may have to hand in my developer license for this but I think Access has it's place, especially with this kind of application. I vaguely recall reading something about distributing Access "applications" that don't require the user to have Access installed. That said, with Access you are only ...

I've long assumed that we amateurs, as regards go development, are to be regarded as children. When we are weak/young we expect beginner/childish mistakes but hope we will grow out of them. Recently, however, I've been leaning towards the conclusion that amateurs, even the best, never grow out of ...

lorill wrote:Go made me wake up early today. That's not much, but it's a start, isn't it ?

Nightmare?

It seems that some are genuinely interested in this topic while others merely argue for arguings own sake.

mohsart wrote:

Helel wrote: Doesn't the envelope option open a whole can of worms...

Please elaborate

/Mats

The fact that you can't figure it out yourself makes you very likeable person.
(det svenska ordet jag sökte var sympatisk, och det verkar översättas med likeable).

willemien wrote:I choose 7x7 as first (and maybe only) project for two main reasons.
- positions can be encoded in 2 longs (or in fact less)

Hmm... wasn't there someone knowledgable that said something about early optimizations.. ?

Anyway, good luck.

Mike Novack wrote:I wrote a programs totalling a few hundred thousands lines in my day but didn't type that many (lots of useful bits and pieces in my "library" to maybe be reused with slight modifications).

Is this code publicly available somewhere?

I like this set up since once I've enclosed the corner I have thickness aimed at his corner (sort of) to help back up an approach followed by a side extension along the bottom.

I think A > B in the following diagrams

$$Bc A ...

Go has brought me endless nights with too little sleep, either by playing or writing programs. Outside of lost sleep, I don't know anything else it has brought me. For some reason I keep coming back for more.

That happened to me in the early days of the Internet (1995-2000), when I played game ...

For YouTube you'd have to split it into 10 minute parts, which is inconvenient to watch. It's really distracting.
Thanks.

Actually, I like the 10 minute split. Or at least don't have a problem with it. I seldom have 1h chunks to watch videos. But I can squeeze in several 10 min chunks spaced out ...

Go has brought me endless nights with too little sleep, either by playing or writing programs. Outside of lost sleep, I don't know anything else it has brought me. For some reason I keep coming back for more.

dfan wrote:You might be interested to check out the games of Robert Jasiek (sum on KGS). His account is 5d and his first few moves often look pretty random.

Yes. He has written before, I believe on gd, that he sometimes uses random moves for the first two moves.

Good lord! Considering all the thought that has been put into GoGoD, I would not oppose a name change to GoGod.

The brain is good at chunking. Learn fundamental pieces of information, and you'd be surprised at what it can put together.

I assume we use the word "read" differently. I use it in the tsumego sense, where you know you have the answer to a problem because you have tried all possible combinations ...