[computer-go] 10k UCT bots

Gunnar Farnebäck gunnar at lysator.liu.se
Sun May 18 11:55:14 PDT 2008


Hideki Kato wrote:
 > I didn't against you, Álvaro, rather I just made a caution for
 > programmers who will use your pseudo code as is. :)
 >
 > First, I prefer SFMT (SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister) rather
 > than integer pseudo random number generators in practice where the
 > quality of play-out is important.  Modern processors execute floating
 > operations as fast as interger ones and
 > 	picked = mt_rand() * (double) num_candidates;
 > is the simplest and safe.

Please note that for uniformity purists this method has exactly the
same problem as good_quality_int_rand() % num_candidates.

/Gunnar


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