[computer-go] Re: Big board. Temperature

[alain Baeckeroot]

Le jeudi 1 mars 2007 11:51, Jason House a écrit :
> alain Baeckeroot wrote:
> > (I propose to ban the term "temperature" from CGT, and replace it by "value",
> > unless someone can explain the link with temperature in physics, and shows
> > some identical properties ;-)
> >   
> While I bet most of us dislike the term, it seems to express an inherent 
> concept.
OK. Do you have some good link which clearly explain CGT temperature ?
Nowhere i find something explaining why it is a good name,
in the sense it is alike what all physicists call temperature (= more
or less global average of underlying agitation*density).

> Renaming temperature to value will lose that.  I know that  
> when I first came across the term temperature, I had to look up what it 
> meant and then learned something.  If it was "value", I never would have.
I read some papers about thermography in go, and in this papers
it was much more clear if i replace "temperature" with "value".

Some "clever" temperature stuff sounds trivial if you replace it by the word
value. Like saying "winning strategy = play the highest temperature point".
Also except in small yose, it is hard to have a thermometer, about
as hard as a valuemeter ;-)

I agree that using "value" could also be misleading, but it seems much better
name than temperature.
maybe cgtemperate, or cvalue ?

Cheers
Alain