[computer-go] Re: Big board. Temperature

[Nick Wedd]

In message <200703011053.42704.alain.baeckeroot at laposte.net>, alain 
Baeckeroot <alain.baeckeroot at laposte.net> writes
>Physics temperature is a macroscopic description (global) of the underlying
>(un)-stability, so it comes to mind very quickly :)
>Unfortunately the term temperature used in Computer Game theory is misleading
>for physicists. CGT-temperature = value of the best move in go, this has
>very little relation do with a global description of unstability.
>
>(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 ;-)

This would be confusing.  A position in CGT has a value and a 
temperature.  If you really want to use some other word for temperature, 
don't choose a word that already has a different meaning in the same 
context.

By the way - I thought CGT stood for "Combinatorial Game Theory".

Nick
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