[computer-go] MoGo

[Chrilly]

The best thing one can do is to write the articles already for the journalists. Or to formulate at least some key sentences. But even this does not really help to be misquoted.
If one wants to be quoted, one has to live with the misquotes. As long as there is no really bad intension, its in my opinion harmless. The more dangerous thing is that one is very quickly put into a "box".
E.g. there was a photographer here and a put on my traditional suit ("Lederhose") and we made photos were I stood on a rock. It was clearly an ironic citation of Erzherzog Johann (a brother of the Austrian emporer which was painted many times in this pose). But the irony got completly lost and when the Austrian TV was here, they insisted that I and my wife put on their traditional clothing. I did not like it, because I did not want to be "hillbilly genius". Finally the TV-people and my wife persuaded me to put on my Lederhose. And when the New Yorker came here, they also wanted me in Lederhose...
I am working currently at Erlangen in Germany. Even there I was already asked why I wear a Levis and not a Lederhose. 

=> You have to be very carefull what kind of Atavar you choose for the public. Once the Atavar is created, he can not really controlled any more.

According to Andy Warhol everybody has nowadays the right to be famous for 15 minutes. I think 15 minutes is fun, but after some time the interviews and the questions of people "Are you..." get boring. Additionally computer chess or go has the big drawback that the groupies are older man. If a nice young lady would ask me in Erlangen about the Blue Jeans question, it would be maybe more interesting.
On the other hand I am working now together with hardware-experts from Analog-Devices. When we started the project I got a mail, are you the Hydra programmer. This made things certainly easier.

Chrilly


---- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sylvain Gelly 
  To: drd at mit.edu ; computer-go 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:00 PM
  Subject: Re: Re:[computer-go] MoGo


  Thank you Don.
  I did not know that, I am not used to :-).

  Then I'll stop worrying for these kind of things and stop trying to give back the truth :).

  Bye,
  Sylvain


  2007/4/4, Don Dailey <drd at mit.edu>:
    On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:52 +0200, Sylvain Gelly wrote: 
    > You should also know that we never claimed that "MoGo plays 9x9 go
    > near the level of a professional go player", which is of course false,
    > and even if it was true should ask for many many experiments, and we 
    > would have never say that.

    It doesn't surprise me.  It's common to get misquoted.   One thing that
    is
    even more common - at some point you are likely to make a quote that
    will
    live forever (and it can even be a misquote.)    Someone will quote it, 
    they will latch onto it, and others will "cut and paste" from the first
    author who quoted (or misquoted) you!

    - Don


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