sardonick

A couple of news articles showing just how predictable human behavior is. Free will or no, individual choices get subsumed by the mass of humanity interacting together–so a cohesive pattern can emerge from a bunch of people acting individually.

• In the stock market [Nature Publishing Group]
• In salary distributions [The New Yorker]
• In general human interaction [Physicsweb.org].

Interesting stuff…

• Many Faces: one of the best AIs, available for demo on a 9×9 board
• TurboGo: mediocre AI with good openings and a joseki database. Good for starting out.
• GnuGo: General go backend (needs a frontend like Jago or gGo).