2011-08-11, 13:08 | Link #262 |
Knowledge is the solution
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Interesting review. I'm glad to see that you enjoyed it. Totally agreed that HnG has probably some of the best cliffhangers ever.
Unfortuantely I think you will soon run out of good classic series you haven't seen.
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2012-04-19, 11:21 | Link #264 | |
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Any Tar Heels out there?
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2012-04-19, 11:59 | Link #265 | |
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Not sure whether you know this, but there are a few final chapters adapted in the new year special which takes place after episode 75 (and I like that particular match because it used a rare opening move on the Tengen ). And if my memory serves me right, there's are also a few more final final chapters in the manga not adapted. |
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2013-03-08, 16:03 | Link #270 |
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Were you expecting they could magically create a widescreen format when it did not exist before? At best they could do some nonlinear stretching where the degree of stretching increases the further you move left or right away from the center of the image. My Sony TV has that feature. It looks okay when you have all the important content in the center of the screen and just background on the left and right sides, like a TV newscaster sitting at a desk.
I'm much happier when distributors retain the original aspect ratio and let me decide whether to stretch it.
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2013-03-09, 01:05 | Link #271 |
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Like i said, i was "just saying". I wasn't expecting anything of that sort. It was just a random comment.
Which reminds me as i watched, while romance is not the focus, i wish Hikaru had hooked up with Akari at some point in the series. It would have made the series slightly more gratifying to me. |
2013-03-10, 02:37 | Link #272 |
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I think it is the series intention to hint to the viewer that to become the top Go player in the world, you need to sacrifice lots of things, friendship, love...etc. Heck Touya Meijin had a young wife. Meijin is in his 50s-60s while his wife is only 30s-40s. I bet Meijin focus on Go for a long long time, and when he got rich someone introduce him his current wife.
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2016-01-27, 18:17 | Link #275 | |
Moving in circles
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Google AI computer beats human champion of Go
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EDIT: And the result is out!
Lee Sedol resigns the first game. It's a win for AlphaGo. (3.33pm Singapore time, 7.33am GMT) Man 0, Machine 1 has science gone too far? Google artificial intelligence Go battle kicks off in Seoul Quote:
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It's the decisive third game of the five-match tournament between Lee Sedol and AlphaGo. Lee is already two games behind:
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2016-04-05, 11:48 | Link #278 | |
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Some insights into the AlphaGo algorithms:
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2016-06-09, 13:32 | Link #279 |
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It's a bit disappointing that the computer won, but at the same time I'm glad for the 4-1 result. If it was 3-2, it'd be forever contested who was strongest. Lee Sedol's mistakes are already found by many people reviewing the games.
Aside from his losing moves, he had some weird strategies he thought would be effective because he's playing a computer. Game 1 he played outside of joseki. Game 3 he just tried to brute-force a ko fight because he'd heard that computers can't handle ko. But the ko he finally managed to get was just a picnic for Alpha, and at that point he had already put himself behind. And at the same time, his time management wasn't great considering his opponent is a computer that gets stronger as the game goes on and the number of valid moves becomes smaller. For example in game 2, he was in byo-yomi from the early mid-game. An interesting thing shown in the game Lee won was that AlphaGo kinda sucks at playing from behind. In Go you're supposed to give your opponents handicap stones if you are stronger than them, then continue to play patiently in a losing position until the chances for a comeback appear, usually quite far into the game. I have some doubts whether this program could play that kind of game.
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AlphaGo Wins First Game Against Chinese Champion
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