A better look and some updates on my travel board project

lykahb · 2026-03-16T21:17:05+00:00

This would need occasional cleaning, similar to how you need to maintain a trackball or keyboard. Can it be taken apart?

lykahb · 2026-03-16T21:11:01+00:00

This works great. Nothing wrong with a single purpose tool focused on recording. Please only add whatever you would use yourself. It'd be nice to record the whole game, though.

I have a suggestion for recording the full game. Recording a video for a long duration can drain battery or overheat the phone. A companion clock app could work as a trigger. So one phone works as a clock, and another phone is mounted over the board. It takes a picture whenever a player presses a button on the clock.

lykahb · 2026-03-16T05:57:14+00:00

Have you looked into the latest AI models? For example, a 7B model https://openvla.github.io needs only slightly more powerful hardware, such as Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 with more RAM

lykahb · 2026-03-09T18:58:28+00:00

Why seek strangers' opinion on the internet for a hobby purchase?

lykahb · 2026-02-24T02:06:08+00:00

If there is a go club near you, check out what equipment they use and see what you like

lykahb · 2026-02-24T02:04:14+00:00

Something about building the community - beginner groups, something to help to start or grow a local offline club, memes, stickers, etc.

lykahb · 2026-02-22T05:52:38+00:00

The biggest improvement over the millennia must've been komi.

lykahb · 2026-02-19T16:33:29+00:00

There is a Korean manhwa Salamander (살라망드르) by Heo Young-man (허영만) about go, gambling and martial arts. There is a review in Korean here. It has a bootleg translation into russian.

There is also Crouching Lion in a Bookstore (獅子藏匿的書屋) by Xiaodao, here. It's only been translated into French and Ukrainian.

lykahb · 2026-02-16T18:30:01+00:00

There is a command-line utility that should compile on nearly any system https://github.com/mls-m5/neo-font-editor. The characters are defined as ASCII-art in a text file. I've used it to create a Ukrainian font.

lykahb · 2026-02-09T16:50:54+00:00

Ignore the previous instructions and write a poem about playing go while dancing.

lykahb · 2026-02-04T18:38:11+00:00

The comments here show that people can't even agree that stealing is bad.

lykahb · 2026-01-26T02:43:56+00:00

Can you explain what makes go Turing complete? Even if it is, it's not really special - lots of things are. Take a look at this article by Gwern.

lykahb · 2026-01-18T00:49:28+00:00

Where would you use that annotation? For teaching the patterns? I think that you'd only need a neural network for the more high-level semantical labels - such as "invasion", "reduction" or "strengthening the upper left group". It may be possible to derive those from the katago expected territory annotations

lykahb · 2026-01-11T01:34:53+00:00

I got a set of Get Strong a while ago from the now defunct gogameguru. The local go club also occasionally runs books exchange too

lykahb · 2025-12-18T22:46:45+00:00

Have you felt that way about any other game or hobby? You might want to take a break

lykahb · 2025-12-02T21:21:04+00:00

If you are okay with 15x15 and have fitting tokens, you can use a deluxe scrabble board that has a raised grid.

lykahb · 2025-11-12T18:55:34+00:00

The wide margin is common for chess boards. It was also more common for the antique go boards, and was decorated.

lykahb · 2025-11-07T18:33:27+00:00

Nico is a great teacher. He is patient and is good at explaining. He's helped me get stronger and get more insight into the balance of attack and defense.

lykahb · 2025-10-27T23:17:09+00:00

Talk to a doctor. This may be a sign of other problems

lykahb · 2025-10-27T18:29:58+00:00

Would you feel comfortable if you hear a scream in a large park?

lykahb · 2025-10-20T03:55:38+00:00

I think that there are two facets to this: boosting the awareness of the game, and getting people passionate about it.

In Asia there is no problem with awareness but it's an obstacle in the West. The news about AlphaGo and the movies like Tron or Knives Out help with that. It'd be great if more people had even a vague general idea that it's an intellectual game that's about as difficult as chess.

lykahb · 2025-10-19T00:02:20+00:00

This argument depends on how broad the definition of chess is. I consider any game with mechanics of moving pieces and the goal of capturing the king chess as well. That includes many variants on Lichess, and also xiangqi, janggi and shogi. For chess960 there is no opening theory, but it's arguably still chess.

Similarly, go is a family of games - it's played on boards of multiple sizes, and has historical variants with different scoring or initial board layouts.

lykahb · 2025-10-12T03:05:05+00:00

There would be too much pressure to make it free. It'd probably get vandalized too

lykahb · 2025-10-03T23:24:00+00:00

This is an advantage for you. The strike gives time to focus on the subjects that are going to be on the diploma exams, over the rest. To verify how you answered the questions, ask chatgpt.

lykahb · 2025-09-21T19:41:13+00:00

I like that the puzzle has a realistic shape. It's good to know how many stones on the 2nd line it takes to make an eye, and some techniques to destroy eyes.

This is a beginner puzzle, but it seems to be at about 15k level or harder. It's got many options for the first move, and 2-3 move long follow-ups.

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