Life In 19x19

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That does not compute. If the base is 5 feet and the difference in height is 5 feet, then the angle is 45 degrees.

But then I have never met a monkey which was good at trigonometry.

Or, perhaps, as the rope ...

A new 6.2-sun (18.6 cm) Kaya Goban purchased from Kuroki Goishi sold this morning on eBay for $885.00. I believe the seller paid Kuroki around $2700.00 for the goban originally. I had been following this listing(s) for almost a month, watching as the "buy it now" price kept falling until the seller ...

I really try my best to reach all of my students, but I have come here too often to vent my frustration with a common lack of preparation by my students. This clearly is not a forum for teachers! I really will stop here, and only discuss education issues elsewhere with those that have actual ...

Shawn Ligocki wrote:

tchan001 wrote:http://baduk.eu/

Whoa, that link goes to malware and porn (at least on android browser).

Yeah, Malwarebytes blocked the link(s) for me. The site probably has been hijacked.

It's a lovely day.

What's interesting is not that dowsing doesn't work, it's the explanations the dowsers come up with after being objectively proved wrong.

When people are emotionally attached to something, no rational or scientific argument will convince them.

I absolutely agree with this except for one small ...

How we use (or refuse to use) our rational faculties is more interesting to me than mapping out the boundaries of those capacities. Dawkins points out that as a species our sensibilities have evolved for a middle-sized world. The scientific world of atoms, quarks, time, space, and probabilities are ...

emeraldemon wrote:Note that both of these logging trucks seem to be attached to engines and running on rails, but that doesn't affect the math problem in any way.

This may have been true Pre-1990, but certainly not today...

Wow, talk about a dysfunctional organization. The Gorilla Foundation's questionable research on human/ape communication is sort of old news, but I wasn't aware of how far down the pseudoscience rabbit-hole they had traveled.

Mef wrote:The weighting factor is about scaling the effect of games *within one player's rating calculation*, not about scaling one person's rating relative to another.

Thanks for the clarification, Mef. This makes more sense and highlights my misunderstanding, which I'm sure Mitsun was pointing out as well.

I do not think the weighting factor has much effect on ratings...

...If Japanese and Korean players never met in tournaments, then comparative ratings would of course not be possible, but I guess there is enough mixing for this not to be a big problem.
I assume the KBA weighting factor is not ...

I think O.G.A. has a more fundamental explanation, and one that has little to do with Go in and of itself.

Most people playing online likely play ranked games. Most face-to-face games are likely friendly and non-ranked. (I have no data to support either assertion.) Who we are as individuals in ...

I mean no disrespect to Iyama Yuta, but it seems pretty odd that he'd be so high on this list. Given his lack of wins on the international go scene, I would imagine he would be back in the thirties where he was the last time this list was released.
I think Iyama Yuta's ranking can be explained in ...

nanthil wrote:I HATE losing online to some ...w/e. These people do nothing but make aggravating overplays to lure you into getting curb stomped with shards of teeth laying around you lose so bad.

I've always found Warrior/Elementalists to be rather pleasant chaps, albeit a bit violent at times. YMMV