Re: [computer-go] GTK client OSX and Windows

2007-01-27 Thread Urban Hafner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 26, 2007, at 20:07 , Don Dailey wrote: Does anyone here have experience with the GTK user interface library for Windows or for OSX ? There's X11 for the Mac, so you can run Gtk applications on the Mac (the Gtk libraries have to be installe

Re: [computer-go] Go and IQ training

2007-01-27 Thread Aidan Karley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Olsson wrote: > Can Go be used to increase a person's aptitude. > Their aptitude for playing Go ? Certainly. Their aptitude for doing anything else - now that's a much more difficult question. And much more interesting. My suspicio

Re: [computer-go] early results

2007-01-27 Thread Don Dailey
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 20:18 -0800, David Doshay wrote: > I would highly recommend that you do your testing against > a different Go engine. Self-play is a weak indicator. > > Cheers, > David I agree that there is a pretty good amount of in-transitivity with self-play. However there is not a prac

Re: [computer-go] GTK client OSX and Windows

2007-01-27 Thread Don Dailey
My understand is that there is a Mac port that doesn't need X11. I'm hoping to do a viewing client in GTK and I would just need someone to compile code I would write on these other platforms and perhaps help me understand what changes to make if it doesn't work 100 percent. - Don On Sat, 2007-0

Re: [computer-go] early results

2007-01-27 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le samedi 27 janvier 2007 14:07, Don Dailey a écrit : > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 20:18 -0800, David Doshay wrote: > > I would highly recommend that you do your testing against > > a different Go engine. Self-play is a weak indicator. > > > > Cheers, > > David > > I agree that there is a pretty good

Re: [computer-go] early results

2007-01-27 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le samedi 27 janvier 2007 14:58, alain Baeckeroot a écrit : > Le samedi 27 janvier 2007 14:07, Don Dailey a écrit : > > I agree that there is a pretty good amount of in-transitivity > > with self-play. > You can use the furiously fast and weak following programs: > gnugo-1.2 (604 ELO on cgos 9

Re: [computer-go] early results

2007-01-27 Thread dhillismail
Handicap stones. - Dave Hillis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 8:07 AM Subject: Re: [computer-go] early results On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 20:18 -0800, David Doshay wrote: > I would highly recommend

Re: [computer-go] GTK client OSX and Windows

2007-01-27 Thread Antoine de Maricourt
If you didn't start writing your client, and if you use C++, you might consider using wxwidgets. It uses GTK under X11, and native UI system under Mac or Windows. My understand is that there is a Mac port that doesn't need X11. I'm hoping to do a viewing client in GTK and I would just need

Re: [computer-go] GTK client OSX and Windows

2007-01-27 Thread Don Dailey
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 19:07 +0100, Antoine de Maricourt wrote: > > If you didn't start writing your client, and if you use C++, you might > consider using wxwidgets. > It uses GTK under X11, and native UI system under Mac or Windows. I'll check it out - I haven't started yet. - Don > > My und

[computer-go] scalability study

2007-01-27 Thread Don Dailey
Below is the current results (in progress) of my UCT 19x19 GO scalability study. This is going to take a lot of time, but the results should be useful and I want to make them a matter of public record. Each person will interpret the data however he/she chooses. The data below contains the fol

Re: [computer-go] early results

2007-01-27 Thread Don Dailey
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 11:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Handicap stones. Yes, I may try to construct another study after this to work with handicap stones and a program such as gnugo as a fixed target. I'm not quite sure how to structure this study - perhaps for each Lazarus level

Re: [computer-go] early results

2007-01-27 Thread terry mcintyre
the convention among human players is that after three straight wins or losses, the handicap is adjusted by one stone. If the score is excessive, more stones may be used to adjust the handicap. Terry McIntyre UNIX for hire software development / systems administration / security 310 630 7453 o