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There were a few jokes made during the round about how AlphaGo resigns. Turns out it's just a popup window! http://i.imgur.com/WKWMHLv.png

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For anyone wondering, that's Ubuntu Linux (version most likely 14.04; Unity interface).

off-topic: DeepMind should switch to a tiling window manager like i3 for increased keyboard-only productivity :)

Probably Goobuntu. ;-)

Probably not, as they are not sitting on a corp workstation on the corp network :)

They could be remoted into one?

The developers probably use whatever window manager they want. I'm personally a fan of i3 also.

But there is nothing wrong with keeping the frontend machine used in this Go match in default Ubuntu desktop environment since its only purpose is to play Go with a graphical user interface anyway.

I know. I was half-joking.

Also given the progress of DeepMind so far, it's very likely that whatever desktop setups they have, is working very well for them.

Another angle - https://i.imgur.com/Pl7xPfk.jpg

AlphaGo resigns

The result "W:Resign" was added to the game information.

Edit: Tinyyy is right.

I think it reads W:Resign

No, it's "The result “W+Resign” was added to the game information"

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5730ibejbv4wle/AlphaGo.jpg?dl=0

Usually the nomenclature is "W+Resign"

"White wins by resignation".

According to this picture[1], it is more likely "W+Resign". I'm curious why a plus sign is used instead of a colon!

[1] http://gall.dcinside.com/board/view/?id=baduk&no=109200&page...

In go results are Color+amount of points, when counted. So the plus is then left for uniformity in resigns/forfeits

Likely they're using SGF format to store game records:

http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/properties.html#RE

Bad google+ joke withheld.

The title bar looks like it's GoGui, so it's just GoGui's reaction to a Go Text Protocol resignation?

Looks like it, see:

https://github.com/lukaszlew/EasyGoGui/blob/master/src/net/s...

And search for MSG_RESIGN_2

Yeah, I was worried that if the score ends up 5-0, we could never see how AlphaGo resigns. Good to see Lee Sedol's victory.

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