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Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas

Posted by timothy on from the leds-blink-when-they're-bluffing dept.

Bridger writes "Poker software called Polaris will play a rematch against human players during the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Developed by an artificial intelligence group at the University of Alberta in Canada, Polaris will be pitted against several professionals at the Rio Hotel between July 3rd and 6th. 'It's possible, given enough computing power, for computers to play "perfectly," where over a long enough match, the program cannot lose money,"' said associate professor Michael Bowling.'"

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  1. Re:This is like "computer battle human in tennis" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What matters is how well the compiler optimizes, since everything gets turned into assembly anyway.

    So something that has an additional step BEFORE BECOMING ASSEMBLY is faster than something THAT STARTS OUT AS ASSEMBLY...

    By your comment and the context you are claiming that writing a program in hand-coded assembly is faster than writing the same program in Java and that this is true for all programs.

    By your misstatement of his comment, and the context, you are a troll who can't read worth a damn. That isn't even remotely what he said, or tried to say.

    Please read the Wikipedia article on dynamic recompilation for more information.

    Please read the Wikipedia page on people with poor reading comprehension for more information.