[spam probable] Re: [computer-go] Monte-Carlo is the future of 19x19

[sylvain.gelly at m4x.org]

> > I think I disagree
> > with the statement "an evaluation that only
> > understands final scores will not
> > make a strong go program" depending on what you mean
> > by random.
>
> here i will interject by agreeing with the
> statement that "an evaluation that only
> understands final scores will not make a
> strong go program".

> if (and perhaps no such go programs exist) one
> were to construct a go program that simply
> evaluated moves based upon the percentage of
> completely-played-out randomly chosen games

In fact, I think we say the same thing, simply using different meaning for the 
same word. By "random" you mean "uniformly random", and I don't mean that, I 
simply mean random (in the sense of random variable).

Sylvain