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manga-ramble
Mar. 6th, 2003 09:13 pmEn train de relire HikaGo, da capo (cependant pas al fine, j'ai pas encore tout téléchargé...) for the third time. Poor obsessed baby!Akira. Pauvre chou.
Tania tells me that Ryan - semi-cousin of Andrew's and apparent fleeting acquaintance, to whose name I can't match a face - is muchly into HnG as well, and wants to play me. o_O; Asked her to relay back the news that reading go manga != ability to play go. (Although I seem to have picked up the ability to tell which side is winning / has won by looking at the board, when the moku difference is fairly evident. Osmotically easy for the human brain, devilishly difficult to reproduce in computer heuristics. Computers must calculate perforce, they can't "take it in at a glance". I don't even think most computer go programs have full-board lookahead capability - or at least, nothing a human would recognise as such. The most interesting approach I've seen so far was a "genetic" program that evolved, spawning with every game and practicing natural selection on itself in order to find the best move. No shit, but Hikaru may have hit the nail on the head regarding God. ^^; ...And don't I wish this manga would @#$%ing stop making me think about God.)
Ryan also thinks HikaGo is shoujo. Sighs. (Tania: "...so why are you reading it then, heterosexual male person you?")
Will probably read Get Backers sometime this week, because am lemming. Actually I read the first couple of tankoubon ages ago; hase having been muchly into it. I remember the artwork had this whirling, elongated, quasi-Mannerist quality, like Parmigianino working in b&w. Wasn't unattractive, but the nervousness of it is probably what made me give it up.
Tania tells me that Ryan - semi-cousin of Andrew's and apparent fleeting acquaintance, to whose name I can't match a face - is muchly into HnG as well, and wants to play me. o_O; Asked her to relay back the news that reading go manga != ability to play go. (Although I seem to have picked up the ability to tell which side is winning / has won by looking at the board, when the moku difference is fairly evident. Osmotically easy for the human brain, devilishly difficult to reproduce in computer heuristics. Computers must calculate perforce, they can't "take it in at a glance". I don't even think most computer go programs have full-board lookahead capability - or at least, nothing a human would recognise as such. The most interesting approach I've seen so far was a "genetic" program that evolved, spawning with every game and practicing natural selection on itself in order to find the best move. No shit, but Hikaru may have hit the nail on the head regarding God. ^^; ...And don't I wish this manga would @#$%ing stop making me think about God.)
Ryan also thinks HikaGo is shoujo. Sighs. (Tania: "...so why are you reading it then, heterosexual male person you?")
Will probably read Get Backers sometime this week, because am lemming. Actually I read the first couple of tankoubon ages ago; hase having been muchly into it. I remember the artwork had this whirling, elongated, quasi-Mannerist quality, like Parmigianino working in b&w. Wasn't unattractive, but the nervousness of it is probably what made me give it up.
