[computer-go] Re: Big board. Temperature

[steve uurtamo]

> 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).

you'll probably be happier just noting that it's an appropriation of the
word 'temperature' in use in a different field in a different context.

if physicists had invented CGT, they might have used a different word,
but they didn't, because they were busy ... doing physics.

s.




 
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