I’m thinking of humans having some fast special purpose inbuilt pattern recognition, which is nondeterministic and an introspective black box, and a slow general purpose processor. Humans can mentally follow the steps of any algorithm, slowly.
Thus if a human can quickly predict the results of program X, then either there is a program Y based on however the human is thinking that does the same thing as X and takes only a handful of basic algorithmic operations. Or the human is using their pattern matching special purpose hardware. This hardware is nondeterministic, not introspectively accessible, and not really shaped to predict go bots.
Either way, it also bears pointing out that if the human can predict the move a go bot would make, the human is at least as good as the machine.
So you are going to need a computer program for “help” if you want to predict the exact moves. At this stage, you can ask if you really understand how the code works. And aren’t just repeating it by route.
I’m thinking of humans having some fast special purpose inbuilt pattern recognition, which is nondeterministic and an introspective black box, and a slow general purpose processor. Humans can mentally follow the steps of any algorithm, slowly.
Thus if a human can quickly predict the results of program X, then either there is a program Y based on however the human is thinking that does the same thing as X and takes only a handful of basic algorithmic operations. Or the human is using their pattern matching special purpose hardware. This hardware is nondeterministic, not introspectively accessible, and not really shaped to predict go bots.
Either way, it also bears pointing out that if the human can predict the move a go bot would make, the human is at least as good as the machine.
So you are going to need a computer program for “help” if you want to predict the exact moves. At this stage, you can ask if you really understand how the code works. And aren’t just repeating it by route.