[Computer-go] Message by Facebook AI group

["Ingo Althöfer"]

Hello,

in the German computer go forum a link to this
message by the Facebook AI Research group was posted:
https://research.fb.com/facebook-open-sources-elf-opengo/

I think this action will speed up "the" development.

One personal quote from the acknowledgement paragraph
of that message:
> We thank the LeelaZero team for their high quality work,
> and our hope is that open-sourcing our bot can similarly
> benefit community initiatives like LeelaZero. We would
> additionally like to thank Mr. Kim Jiseok, Mr. Shin Jinseo,
> Mr. Park Yeonghun, and Mr. Choi Cheolhan of the Korean
> Baduk association for their eager participation,
> challenging our bot through a series of games.

Chers, Ingo.
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[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

On 3/05/2018 5:24, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in the German computer go forum a link to this message by the
> Facebook AI Research group was posted:
> https://research.fb.com/facebook-open-sources-elf-opengo/

FYI, we were able to convert the Facebook network into Leela Zero
format, which should make it a lot easier to play against or test with.

https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero/releases
https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero/issues/1329

> I think this action will speed up "the" development.

Depends on what "the" is, I guess.

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["Ingo Althöfer"]

Hi Gian-Carlo,

> FYI, we were able to convert the Facebook network into Leela Zero
> format, which should make it a lot easier to play against or test with.
>
> https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero/releases
> https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero/issues/1329

Thanks for your information.

> > I think this action will speed up "the" development.
>
> Depends on what "the" is, I guess.

It was meant from the viewpoint of an
outside observer/commentator.

In Germany we have a proverb:
"Konkurrenz belebt das Geschaeft."
Roughly translated:
"Competition enlivens the bbusiness."

Cheers, Ingo.

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

On 5/05/2018 7:30, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote:
> It was meant from the viewpoint of an
> outside observer/commentator.
>
> In Germany we have a proverb:
> "Konkurrenz belebt das Geschaeft."
> Roughly translated:
> "Competition enlivens the bbusiness."

So does cooperation.

Thanks to Facebook for making (so far part of) the data public. They
have soundly beaten some of their competition in this regard.

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GCP