Life In 19x19

My guesses:

"Recursion in Go": viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6604 :)

Rank represents skills.

speedchase wrote:It doesn't work like that. 45 days is the half life of the games, so it would slowly lose it's value over time. it wouldn't cause a dramatic downward spike.

Hmmm… You right!

Boidhre, your rank is really light, so I don't see any unusual things: I think sharp jump down happens because information about your previous win-streak is gone (45 days half-life of the games)

Yep, in may was one perceptible drop for all. You think it's kinda fadeout?

I notice one consistent pattern on KGS: from summer (around may) ranks of many kyu-players (6-1k) slowly going down. For example:
http://www.gokgs.com/servlet/graph/gsy3k-en_US.png

I check 15-20 accounts. ≈80% have this regression.

It's my incorrect statistics or something ...

Long life, KGS! :)

I have FireBug and can get some info from profiler, but can't interpret it properly :)

upd Another laptop, Win7, FF18 — same stuff (≈20% load, but in this case processor much more powerful)

UPD (about week later) solved by some magic

Hi all!

I got one weird thing in Kaya: constantly 100% CPU load while playing or just viewing someone's game. And in sandbox I have big lag after clicking, sound is about 0.5 sec late.

How to find and fix this problem?

My config: FF 16 (even with clean profile), WinXP, rusty celeron 530 laptop ...

so, no more MilanMilan's interview on gosensations?

jts wrote:One good thing is that the people in the ASR play tons of free games, so their ranks are a little suspect

Yea. Now we have a one 5k? player in Delta who beat ALL shutout :)

It was great lecture about fundamentals of direction in fuseki!

mogosoup wrote:…I beat a kid that was 2kyu. Here's the game what do you think?

Rare to see such games on KGS, but it's typical Wbaduk 9-10k style, so maybe around 5k KGS. Creative and lightning :)

Great thriller!
I know that feelings too. From both sides :)