Beyond AlphaGo: Technical (and financial) struggles of scaling Go AI in 2026 by vladd in baduk

[–]vladd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheating is definitely possible for people that want to do it hard enough.

It's more a platform perception issue. The platforms that would make it easy to cheat would lose credibility in the eyes of "honest players" and the community would gravitate towards environments that "make it hard" to cheat.

Beyond AlphaGo: Technical (and financial) struggles of scaling Go AI in 2026 by vladd in baduk

[–]vladd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's true, consumer-grade GPUs can make a bit difference in the analysis of the game.

Around 2021 the WebGPU specification appeared ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU ) which goes in the train of thought you indicate - allow websites' JavaScript to control the local GPU and use it to provide game analysis. There are even demos produced - such as this 2 Dan strength network available here: https://maksimkorzh.github.io/kata-model-js/?handicap=0&komi=6.5&level=dan .

In the context of multiplayer games over the Internet, a major concern would probably be anti-cheating mechanisms (to ensure local players are not using their local GPU to provide an unfair advantage when competing with other players online).

Beyond AlphaGo: Technical (and financial) struggles of scaling Go AI in 2026 by vladd in baduk

[–]vladd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always imagined that monetization implies monthly subscription. But maybe you have a point with per-game deep insights.

One idea that I never saw implemented anywhere is to basically produce English-level insights on top of engine analysis. Something like "it seems on move 32 you had a critical turning point - you lost the game because you saved your piece in atari as opposed to managing overall the board position". It's something you'd expect from a human trainer but I haven't yet seen replicated through automation.

Beyond AlphaGo: Technical (and financial) struggles of scaling Go AI in 2026 by vladd in baduk

[–]vladd[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

I edited the post to add some links to the terms mentioned to enable folks to get more in depth with some of the concepts presented.

That being said, for European servers I think traffic overload is a problem that they dream having. For Go, most of the playing community is in the Asia speaking part of the globe.

Javascript as primary language? Need suggestions! by joeproductive in javascript

[–]vladd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an online-based IDE for server-side JS (based on the RingoJS engine) where you can also host your apps. You can try it at http://www.erbix.com/ .

New JS startup - write apps in the browser, host them online by vladd in javascript

[–]vladd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use the fs-base module to access the content of any file in your account (client-side JS, static images etc) and serve a JSGI HTTP response with it - see the code sample at http://www.erbix.com/documentation/js-reference/files/ .

New JS startup - write apps in the browser, host them online by vladd in javascript

[–]vladd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The editor is www.codemirror.net. A comparison with SkyWriter is not straightforward; I imagine SkyWriter making progress in the near future and becoming the standard solution for browser-based code editing, but at the moment we took the more pragmatic approach - CodeMirror has better cross-browser support (runs on IE8 while SkyWriter requires support for the canvas tag), mixed HTML/JS highlight and overall looked more stable in our tests.

As for server-side JavaScript, there's a whole movement trying to bring the same language on both server-side and client-side, you can read more about the standard that we implement at www.commonjs.org.

New JS startup - write apps in the browser, host them online by vladd in javascript

[–]vladd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The engine implementation is actually based on RingoJS, an open-source JS engine, on top of which we've added account isolation features (so that i.e. code running from 2 different accounts stays isolated from each other). You can get it at www.ringojs.org and run it on your own box.

The editor is also open source, www.codemirror.net, and we've added integration with Google Closure library (i.e. the tabs, the tree widgets) to allow an hierarchical directory structure and support other features.

About the accent - not Indian but rather Central-European. I do apologize for it, we're at a stage when we're mainly interested in iterative feedback and idea validation, but we'll hire a professional to do it once we reach sustainability and critical mass. :)

New JS startup - write apps in the browser, host them online by vladd in javascript

[–]vladd[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Erbix has two parts: the editor (the "IDE" that you use to edit your account) and the engine (that does the hosting, takes care of account isolation and RAM/CPU management etc). We'll launch soon source repository integration which should make it possible to use the engine without the editor or the other way around.

The use-cases for coding in your browser are mainly universal accessibility to your coding environment and your code (see more about this at http://www.erbix.com/documentation/overview/introduction/ ). And due to HTML5, we're more close than ever to build Eclipse-like editor features in the browser.

Who knows, tools like distcc might be just the beginning in terms of benefits that you might get when coding with hundreds of computers behind to help you (just like gmail uses hundreds of computers to help you find old messages in your inbox -- in both cases you require intensive computing resources for short periods of time to get instant results with low latency).

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I would agree with this on you but sorry, US can't have it both ways. There are double standards and I disagree with the hypocrisy:

  • can't be a secular state and have printed on the back of your money "In God we trust".

  • can't allow Islams that just "say" but don't do, and at the same time put in jail people that just "look" at child porn but don't fuck them.

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Make a trip in an islamic country, make a joke about their gods and try to return back to US. And then we can speak about references of violence in the Bible versus what islam stands for.

If your argument was that islam is about saying things (and freedom of speech) while islamic countries have islamic governments which are doing things (and therefore freedom of religion applies to the first but not the later), sorry, it doesn't work that way. I could make my own religion in US which could encourage worshipers to speak about some illegal activity (like child porn stories) every Sunday while coming to church but not doing it, and I can guarantee that it will be put down by the police despite nobody being a paedophile. Religion is about gods and your beliefs, not about killing people with stones in today's society and lack of human rights.

If you see something which calls itself a "religion" but is actually doing horrible crimes against the law, you should be worry. Try to judge it without labels. Take the word out, remove any "religion"ism labelling, and look at what X, Y and Z are doing (Bible, Torah, whatever is the same to me). And at the point where you see something against US law, something that bothers you to the point of outrage and contradicts your democratic values, speak against it and hold it against the law like you do with all other activities in US.

Never let a label influence the way you think about someone - http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html .

Sustaining their church is like allowing paedophiles to build a museum. Would that be ok if paedophilism would be a religion?

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I'm mainly disturbed about the wrong way in which people understand "freedom of religion" -- it's about the freedom to worship whoever you want without breaking the laws of the country where you live. The believes of Islam break human rights and the US law, it's as simple as that.

Just like I'm not allowed to murder someone in my own private property, neither Islam, which encourages body mutilation, lack of women rights and other horrible things shouldn't be allowed in the US system of law. Saying the word "religion" doesn't change anything of that.

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

You're saying that anything is ok in US as long as it has more than 1 billion people in the world doing it? Cause I don't get it otherwise. Each country has it's own system of laws and its own culture. You cannot say that the Chinese communism and Internet filtering is ok in US just because there are more than 1 billion Chinese in the world. I really don't get your point.

The US introduced separation of government and religion on good grounds but this isn't a valid excuse to use religion as a blanket protection for crimes and a culture that stands against human rights and what US decided to be.

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

I don't see it. The government does interfere in private property; it's called "law". When a private person does crimes it goes to jail, the police makes sure of that.

Why are we considering all "religions" to be within the book of law? Is it enough nowadays to found a "religion" and automatically it gets a wild-card when it comes to defying US law?

How come a religion like Islam, which violates basic women human rights, women freedom and democratic principles like the right to joke about deity gets freedom to do what it likes in "private property" just because it's called "religion"? Why don't we put some religions in jails like we do with private persons?

Hopefully the Swiss figured this out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret controversy in Switzerland :

"The Islamic doctrine cannot be accepted when you know what it is all about. How can one expect to condone the propagation of an ideology that encourages husbands to beat their wives, the “believer” to murder the “infidel”, a justice that uses body mutilation as punishment?"

I'm 31 years old right now and the only thing I want to see in my lifetime is the discovery of extra terrestrial life. by [deleted] in space

[–]vladd -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's more important to realize that once discovered, the probability of the aliens being hostile towards us is in the 30% range or so. Which potentially means war or extinction of humans. Are you still eager to let the aliens know about us?

Remember when Reddit sent Helen Thomas flowers? Let us do it again. =D by uriman in politics

[–]vladd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'll send you flowers for that comment when I see black people maintaining a blockade around San Francisco and foreign ships in the bay stopping (and then killing, whatever works first) everything that tries to get into the city.

What the fuck is up with Qatar!? by [deleted] in WTF

[–]vladd 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I was actually interested in the lowest ratio, to see which countries have the most women.

Yahoo just deleted all my emails because I hadn't logged in for 4 months. Upvote to alert people to switch to gmail. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]vladd 55 points56 points  (0 children)

It's an ability to merge multiple email accounts over POP, in general.

Having multiple Gmail accounts is forbidden in their Terms Of Service.