Chinese board game Go has become a popular testing ground for AI because of its simple rules — two players and two colors of stones — and the profound complexity that the simple rules lead to. For…
I should also note that this place was xen on gentoo on refurb p3s. it involved adventures with gluster and nfsv3 and almost-all-the-docs-were-still-russian nginx imap/pop proxies and… fun times
(I did learn a fair deal there. foremost among what I learned was how willing someone would be to pay me dogshit money if they could get away with it)
circa '06 my then-boss wanted me to “implement sawzall for mailserver logs”
(I was extremely green at the time and I’ve since wondered whether that was one of my first gartner quadrant moments)
I should also note that this place was xen on gentoo on refurb p3s. it involved adventures with gluster and nfsv3 and almost-all-the-docs-were-still-russian nginx imap/pop proxies and… fun times
(I did learn a fair deal there. foremost among what I learned was how willing someone would be to pay me dogshit money if they could get away with it)