[Computer-go] computer Go as a social & educational tool?

[Petr Baudis]

  Hi!

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:50:59PM +0000, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> Terry,
> 
> I can only provide what the Go engine exposes, so please encourage
> the developers,
> in this case Fuego may not provide a kill alert, but certainly it is
> in codebase, Fuego has strong kill facility.
> I will also chase tx.
> probably red is too emotional, see:  How to use Colour on ATC radar
> displays.  L.Reynolds

  I would be happy to add such a feature to Pachi, if you'd make use
of it.

> Petr,
> 
> your sociomap visualisation in fig 4 is most interesting, what are
> the three axis labels?
> do you have other examples?

  The three axis do not have an explicit meaning; the positions of the
points on them have been chosen by the algorithm to have players rated
similarly by experts near to each other on the plane, and players rated
similarly based on the patterns have the similar height.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Computer science education cannot make an expert programmer any more
than studying brushes and pigment can make an expert painter. --esr