^ "Brown Adviser Groban Confirmed to California High Court".List of justices of the Supreme Court of California.Īs of November 11, 2022, following the 2022 election, he was retained by California voters to continue to serve as an associate justice with 68.4% of an affirmative vote. He joined the court when it reconvened on January 8, 2019. Groban was confirmed on December 21, 2018, and was sworn into office on January 3, 2019. to replace Associate Justice Kathryn Werdegar, who retired on August 31, 2017. On November 14, 2018, Groban was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to serve as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Groban teaches State Appellate Practice at the UCLA School of Law. He was Brown's fourth appointment to the seven-member Supreme Court. Upon Brown's election, he served in the administration overseeing state judicial appointments and advising on litigation and policy. Groban served as counsel to Brown's campaign for California governor in the 2010 California gubernatorial election. He was in private practice at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City from 1999 to 2005, and at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles from 2005 to 2010. Conner in the Southern District of New York from 1998 to 1999. Groban began his legal career serving as a law clerk to U.S. Groban attended Stanford University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995, and Harvard Law School, obtaining a Juris Doctor degree in 1998. His father is a physician at University of California, San Diego hospital, and his mother, Deborah Isackson Groban, served as a member of Del Mar City Council. Groban was raised in Del Mar, California and graduated from Torrey Pines High School. He was appointed to the California Supreme Court by Governor Jerry Brown on November 14, 2018. Go is hell to learn, but then so is chess, when the geeks cackle.Joshua Paul Groban (born August 15, 1973) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. And, fortunately, even us 28 kyu idiots can see the beginnings of unimagineable depths that provides this game's eternal fascination. Really, Go at the level GNU Go provides is not much more difficult than tic tac toe, once you learn to fire off more than one Kleenex deep layer of neurons. Go software is notoriously inept and provides the current "next big challenge" in AI research, but GNU Go is a great way to learn the basics. Sente's Goban is a virtual board which does a great many things, chief among them creating self-documenting Go games (Goban uses SGF files), watching or playing games on the major internet Go servers, replaying famous (and infamous) games of better players (or oneself), AND, LAST BUT NOT LEAST allowing you to humiliate yourself by playing against GNU Go 3.4 (or 3.6 if you download the latest) - which plays at the level of any 12-year old Japanese kid who's played for a few years. "Goban" is the Japanese word for the board on which one plays Go, and prices for these border on the ridiculous (primarily because Gaia does not grow 700 year old plum-yew trees fast enough to meet demand). (I assume the clock only works for network play?) And a little documentation would have been dearly appreciated for these more obscure features.īut it's free, so those are only observations, not complaints! For the price, this is a super-sweet little program which will let you enjoy a game against the computer (until you are about 10 kyu or so, at which point you ought to be able to kick Gnu Go 3.7's butt regularly) and give you access to view all those downloadable professional game files, and your own online game SGFs, with ease. (Attempting to use them at all is one of the few things that glitches the program up!) There are some features-such as using a timer-which apparently can't be activated at all. It would be nice if the SGF editing features were easier to use. SGF files with alternate paths and on-the-board notations don't work quite so well. Goban is fabulously easy to use as a game, or as a bare-bones SGF viewer. I have not attempted to download 3.9 and use it as an alternate player, to be fair, but my attempts to do the same with other Go game engines have all failed. It comes with Gnu Go 3.7 built in, but Gnu Go is now up to 3.9. The only reason I have not given it a full 5 stars is that it could use some updating and minor feature adds/fixes. I have only used it to play against the computer, as I use KGS's client software when playing on the server. I've been using this program for quite a while, almost daily, and have been very happy with it.
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