From: asek@acad2.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Re: Strategic computations, expensive games
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:54:26 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska



Not sure if we're on impulse engines or warp-drive ....

I don't so much mind being misquoted ( usually ">" means a citation ) but
I think that the readers will certainly notice what happened to the quote.

It's murky to me what separates an algorithm from a game.  Any volunteers?
Particularly, it's murky when I examine each from an embracing common
perspective.  When the Buddhist meditates there's only one meditation.
Or, when a Zen Buddhist meditates there's no meditation.  :=)

We need to admit that the traditional approaches have not produced for us
the multi-million dollar program that captures the World GO Tournament.
I look at the traditional definitions with a jaundiced eye.

The notion "computational complexity" may have a precise definition.  This
does not establish for us that its precise definition is the correct
definition.   To be correct, a definition must be precise -and- accurate.
Accuracy demands that the definition fall within certain tolerance bounds.
Precision may lie outside those tolerance bounds.

I must still ponder the idea that "something is unrelated to processing
features of human brain."  Have I become a devout subjectivist, or simply
a skeptic?  The notion that something is "not useful without a definition"
seems to annihilate much of what is beautiful and inarticulate about the
final frontier.  I am reminded of Borgs assimilating others into themselves.
This "something" (out there):  is it perceived?  experienced?  observed?

 . . . .  what they've been discussing . . . . . .
               ^^^^^^^

Well yes -- over in that corner they've been discussing something evidently.
Hmmm -- over in this corner they're discussing something else.  What gives?

 . . . . . "brute force method"  . . . . . .

Actually, this might be redundant.  A "method" already suggests forcing.
Brutus seems to be one of the components, certainly.  I've also seen Brutus
outfoxed by the geese.  Darn!  Now why didn't *I* think of that topological
circumlocution!   The snowfall was very deep that year as a carpet of flakes
sent snake-shit through the wormhole.  Brutus lost on time, you see.  Well,
better luck next year.  *That* particular heuristic got washed under high
tide -- a melted ice-sculpture -- the clams kept quiet while sagebrush died
with the keys to a symphony.  On the keyring was tatooed a lasso snaring
the flea on the fly; his tail was not blue.  This was not the first time
Cyrano caught the shuttle bus on the tip of her parasol beside the bicycle.
"If ... " began the barrister, but His Nibs stopped him with a banging gavel.
"Had you any idea?" said joe college as he crushed mussles beneath zorries.

This was not the answer to be giving to the question which had not been posed.

Sticky bits..

Computational complexity:  no doubt it invokes time or space to appeal to
our sense of physical domain.   Fields Medal mathematicians report to us
how PI or "e" is or is not more or less complex than each other.  Maybe this
is very interesting, or does it lead us down that innocent garden path?
Funny how the vines look -- why does this seem like deja vu all over again
all over again?  It took us this long to do that.  It took us that long to
do this.  Therefore ....   Prove it ....   It prove....   So There....
That flower looks mighty complicated.  Or is it just a simple flower?  
Don't worry, be happy.  What, me worry?

Purpose & conclusion:  Look again at the situation.  You still have a few
minutes left on your clock.

:=)

/s   ( whoops, wrong BBS )