Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:39:31 03/30/04
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On March 29, 2004 at 20:02:50, Keith Evans wrote:
>On March 29, 2004 at 03:34:23, Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>>On March 28, 2004 at 17:44:26, Keith Evans wrote:
>>>On March 28, 2004 at 15:55:36, Steven Edwards wrote:
>>>>On March 27, 2004 at 22:49:01, Keith Evans wrote:
>>>>>On March 25, 2004 at 22:15:16, Steven Edwards wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Also, I've got a backup development plan that also uses Lisp and a low NPS,
>>>>>>whole tree approach. This alternative doesn't rely much on patterns and
>>>>>>planning, but on a market simulation (!) idea. Here, each node has an instance
>>>>>>of an interpreter running a program in a Lisp-ish language called NodeScript and
>>>>>>these instances compete for resource allocation (i.e., greater proportion of
>>>>>>interpreter step cycles). All the NodeScript interpreter instances run at the
>>>>>>same time, communicate via messaging plus blackboards, and together perform a
>>>>>>planless search where the final move selection is reached by consensus.
:) :)
Maybe a little early for an April 1st post! :)
Christophe :)
>>>>>>My NodeScript idea is certainly not like any other chess program known to me,
>>>>>>and it's also rather unlike the reasoning process of a human player. But it
>>>>>>does have some similarities to human group behavior, perhaps like a team of
>>>>>>investment analysts, where economic projections and results guide resource
>>>>>>allocation and target areas of market expansion.
>>>>
>>>>>How many nodes do you think would be running simultaneously?
>>>>
>>>>Thousands at least; the only limitation is the addressing space. All nodes run
>>>>the same uniquely stored NodeScript program; each node only needs to store its
>>>>own copy of the interpreter state and this is likely under 8 KByte or so.
>>>>
>>>>>I don't really
>>>>>"get" this idea, but it's sort of interesting to me because I could see where
>>>>>you could implement many of these node processors on an FPGA board, and they
>>>>>could really run in parallel. (I mention an FPGA board only because it would
>>>>>make development easier, there would obviously be many ways to approach this
>>>>>problem.)
>>>>
>>>>While a multiple programmable gate array technique may be possible, it may not
>>>>be the best approach for the above due to the ensuing high shared memory
>>>>bandwidth requirements.
>>>
>>>Does every node need to communicate with every other node, or just a very
>>>limited subset?
>>>
>>>Any hint about what type of messages the nodes would be sending? Just a simple
>>>example of the type of transaction?
>>
>>It would be difficult to give precise answers here as too much of NodeScript is
>>still only a techical outline. I'll post more details when/if they become
>>available.
>
>Have you seen the papers on turbo codes?
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