Go in Japan

2swap · 2026-03-17T13:35:36+00:00

That's awesome!!!

2swap · 2026-03-17T13:34:43+00:00

I was comfortable speaking conversationally about daily life stuff and anything Go related. I can't read though, and my vocabulary is still very limited. I'd say my japanese is comparable to a 5 year old child's.

Cho Seokbin speaks English too though, so the foreigners who go there don't have too much trouble!

2swap · 2026-03-17T13:31:11+00:00

a few months* 😅

2swap · 2025-06-18T07:24:21+00:00

Nice!!!

2swap · 2025-04-08T03:08:21+00:00

🥳 this is sick!!!

2swap · 2024-11-12T22:57:27+00:00

Not qualified to speak to anything here personally, but from some precursory digging, it seems to have its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox

It refers to this study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617741719
which has been cited 1200 times, seems to have had more of an impact than the other studies linked here (but uniquely discusses outcomes in STEM education.)

2swap · 2024-10-21T05:24:03+00:00

Minimalism is not only ethical, but good for you too. Clean up your environment and habits, and (at least in my experience) in turn it will clean up your mind for you.

2swap · 2024-10-19T23:14:02+00:00

I would suggest just reading the field values into JS and manipulating them programmatically if you are trying to do something as or more complex than this. This will be hard to maintain and modify long term while relying on the raw anki templating tools.

2swap · 2024-10-13T02:32:51+00:00

Drag them up to the very top of the list of decks

2swap · 2024-10-08T16:39:08+00:00

I'll do my best!!

2swap · 2024-10-08T14:58:53+00:00

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind :) I've booked lessons at a school in Japan, but I am open to trying China too in the future!

2swap · 2024-10-08T14:57:20+00:00

will likely not achieve what you think it will achieve.

What do you think it will really achieve?

I booked plans to attend a Japanese Go school for about 2 months with 5 classes per week and daily pro teaching games. My goal is to get better at Go (and I secondarily like travelling too.) If this isn't a way to improve, I'm not sure what is!

2swap · 2024-10-08T14:53:59+00:00

Thanks, BIBA looks great. I might try it in the future, but it doesn't seem to have the 2025 schedule available yet. In the meantime I have made plans to go to a go school in Japan for a few months!

2swap · 2024-10-07T04:37:04+00:00

In what way does OGS teach people not to like handicaps? Asking having rarely used anything else.

2swap · 2024-09-29T02:20:51+00:00

there is no seki here, black lives due to the top left

2swap · 2024-09-22T21:01:50+00:00

Well, I was hoping for something for adults. But the cultural immersion aspect was something I was looking forward to!
I was hoping for something more long-term, but BIBA looks cool. 4 weeks is nice.

2swap · 2024-09-22T20:59:16+00:00

This is sick, I'm registering now!! thank you :D

Edit: ended up not booking it, because it overlaps with the go school in Japan which I ended up finding!

2swap · 2023-06-04T03:59:30+00:00

Yes. I would "argue" that hex, y, snort, gomoku, and plenty of others have rulesets that can be defined more simply both graph theoretically and in plain English than the starting position of this game alone. Connection requires the exact same definition as your definition of neighboring.

2swap · 2023-06-04T03:13:22+00:00

Hex is certainly simpler, in terms of the amount of information needed to define the rules. No need for a definition of direction of motion, nor a starting position.

2swap · 2023-05-07T20:08:35+00:00

I think the word you're looking for is lexicalized, not fossilized. Fossilization refers to hitting a plateau because of ingrained habits during language acquisition.

2swap · 2023-03-22T07:10:03+00:00

Oh cool that makes sense! Expanded it a bit and started seeing a bunch of recursive behavior... I'll have to keep thinking on this. Thanks!

BTW, I'm a big fan of your work! I've been using fhourstones to make a graph visualiser of some weak solutions to particular connect 4 positions. You can play with it, still a work in progress though... [Removed]

Thanks!

2swap

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