Re: Sharing Secrets (was: [computer-go] Computer Go hardware)

[David G Doshay <ddoshay@xxxxxxx>]

On Oct 21, 2004, at 4:17 AM, Frank de Groot wrote:

> What I meant by "secret" was:
>
> - not previously published (eg. David has never made a secret of 
> anything IIRC)
> - useful for the majority of Go programmers (eg. the general 
> architecture of a massive multi-CPU system is not really very useful 
> for the average Go programmer)
> - It has to be a "competitive secret" (as I thought was clear from my 
> post).
>
> Meaning, it's a secret in the sense of: "I will never tell because 
> people will DEFINITELY 100% SURE get a benefit out of this if they 
> would adopt it.

That freely published information cannot be "secret" is obvious enough, 
although an interesting constraint on sharing. So, it seems your terms 
are "I'll share with you today if you share with me something you did 
not freely share yesterday."

But that you would in one post claim that you are writing code for the 
computing systems of 10 or more years from now and in this post claim 
that techniques using multiple cpus is not of interest is truly odd. 
You can buy a 12 cpu cluster in a single pizza box today for not that 
much more than a high-end box of a few years ago. They claim that their 
96 cpu box, the size of a standard tower computer with power 
requirements met by a standard wall outlet, will be ready "real soon 
now." See www.orionmulti.com. The results I posted on SlugGo's 
performance were with the use of 10 cpus. With the cost of a normal pc 
down near $500, "the average Go programmer" can also put that together 
pretty easily all by their self.

In as far as your constraint "I will never tell because ..." well, some 
people just have a different attitude. I for one will stick with "Hey, 
I tried this and it works!"

If you choose to open up with your secret for selecting optimal hashing 
codes I will be happy to take a look.


Cheers,
David


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