How can a single human with access to only his own hand compete with multiple bots in the same game played by a single individual with access to each of his bot's hands?
More sophisticated setups might even let the person get ahead early on to encourage higher and more reckless betting, or it may be good enough to scrape opening bids off of many unsuspecting players.
The AI is "able to use its opponents' actions to infer certain things about their hands"
While it may seem logical to use the actions of people playing to determine something about their hands, in reality people do not play logically. My uncle has been playing spades for probably better than 30 years, yet I have yet in my relatively limited 10+ years of playing to determine any rational for how he plays. Basically, he really sucks at spades. No matter how "Intelligent" artifical or otherwise I manage to code a game, it can't reason out the reasoning behind a non-logical person.
Good quote I say somewhere: Artifical intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!
And this holds true for more than card game AI. It will not be too long until AI could reasonably drive around and get from point A to point B safely. But it will be a damn long time before it can do it if it has to share the road with people driving as well!
DALLAS -- A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a trial judge's order that EchoStar Communications Corp., parent of the Dish satellite-TV service, disable more than 3 million digital video recorders.
When the install ask for the virgin's blood, the average slashdotter need only dilute theirs with some Extra Virgin Olive Oil.... this dilutes the "virgin" quality down to a reasonable level... after that the install works just fine!
To everyone's consternation, Gödel suddenly informed the presiding judge that he had discovered a way in which a dictatorship could be legally installed in the United States. Fortunately, the judge, who was apparently a very patient person, took this in good part and awarded Gödel his citizenship.
After all, nobody had ever heard of either 9/11 or George W back then eh?
You know you're addicted when your non-geek wife recognizes Slashdot...
My dear wife thought that Linux was black text in a terminal, and that the mud I used to play, Nuke, was green text in a termial. Got alot of mudding in while "learning" Linux to prepare for the future.
But alas, all good things must come to an end. She finally wised up and figured out I could mud in any color text *grin*.
I traded my "Life" for a "Wife". So far in the grand scheme, I have come out way ahead!
As a Debian user for many years... I am not sure if I like this frantic release schedule. I got 3 good years out of Woody... barely got Sarge installed on my test box and a few edge machines, now it almost time to upgrade again.
Sarcasm aside, good job Debian, congrats on earning vendor recognition. News like this does affect hardware purchases. Rather fond of Debian, and a nice blade chasis may be just the ticket.
People who have nothing, or are working dead-end jobs have nothing to lose when they make a career change. What about people with sucessful, at least on a financial level, careers? I have always thought that America is famous for "Rags to Riches" because you can afford to lose alot of rags before you get that lucky break and make the riches.
It is harder for people who are married, gainfully employed, have children, mortgages to just change direction. You often hear people say, "Work is called work for a reason. Find something else that makes you happy, and use the money from work to pursue that."
Sometimes a career change is the best thing for someone. Sometimes what you are looking for will not be found in any job or career. I guess each person needs to decide how much they are willing to sacrafice for a chance at something better.
Jr High was like being in the Gladiator Pits. Almost daily fights to defend yourself. I was 5'1" at the end of 8th grade. I was 5'9" at the beginning of 9th, and 6' at the end. All of a sudden nobody wanted to fight anymore.
Problem is the authorities taking a hands off approach to bullies, but zero tolerance to self defense.
Despite many objections, said textbooks are not worthless. I have a few myself, that I keep around for various things. A desk that is not quite level, needing to site in a scope on a rifle, mounting motherboard you do not have the right case for... all good uses of these books.
Though I have to admit, as I get older, sometimes I find math a bit more intersting than when I was required to take the courses. If I had to take them again, doubt I would do it voluntarily, I might well learn more the second ( okay more like 5th ) time around.
Whenever you work on computers, it does not hurt to take notes of interesting problems/solutions. This is even more true if you are working on Linux boxes and still a relative newbie. While relearning is sometimes necessary, the time to do it is not when you have a dead/dying machine to get back up.
Document what you do, and later with a little more experience under your belt, go back and see if you can improve upon what you did before.
And for those of you who are utter genious and have excellent memory, just wait. Funny how as you get older, it either gets harder to remember everything. Might be because there is more to remember, or your priorities change and how to fix random computer problem is no longer the highlight of your life.
Buy my book, but do not open it right away. Put it on a shelf somewhere, or even in a cardboard box. Go use,break,fix, work on computers for about 3 to 5 years, then come get the book, if you can find it.
You will find the book to be completely worthless, same as if you had read it the first day you got it. But it will not matter, because more than likely the experience you got from owning it, and the years of working with computers will have given you the best "experience" possible.
The price of civil disobedience is arrest/contempt of court charges, and whatever punishment you are given. You do not get to be a Martyr without suffering/dying for a cause.
Same thing applies to "freedom of speech" being construed to protect you from the outcome of expressing an opinion. You are allowed to speak freely without having yourself or your family persecuted by authorities. It does NOT protect you from the opinions of others who have as much right to judge you on your words and actions. And they have the same right to express their opinions as you do.
Often many people have to suffer before a positive change occurs. You do not get the moral high ground just by standing in front of a tank. You often have to be run over before it really matters.
I believe that algorithm is patented by the Catholic Church. Any attempt to reproduce or use that algorithm without express consent of the Catholic Church condemns you to an eternity in a fiery hell!
Or at least a few centuries in purgatory.
Are people who went to Catholic school as children scared of penguins?
Some states are moving to require this. They are being blocked by people claiming that older/impoverished people will be disenfranchised because they will have to have birth certificates and prove who they are to get a "free" voter ID if they do not have a standard ID like a driver's license.
Censorship can seem like a good thing in theory. Keeping the "bad" things away from the people who do not want or need them. The problem comes from when someone(s) gets to arbitrarily decide what other people do and do not want or need.
Who gets to decide? Who can influence the decisions? Can/Do people get to decide for themselves what is trusted?
The last point is where we are now and it apparently does not work. People in general do not know what they can trust and not trust. So they have to rely on "experts". But what about the people who are "experts" in their own right and do not trust the other "experts".
Another person on slashdot put it quite well by saying: "Censorship is like saying a grown man can not have steak because a baby can not chew it."
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I mean look at the parent +5, obvious groupthink at work there!
Mod parent down to preserve intelligent comments, like mine.
My comments are da BOMB!
If you think my comments are bad, you should read my poetry!
How can a single human with access to only his own hand compete with multiple bots in the same game played by a single individual with access to each of his bot's hands?
More sophisticated setups might even let the person get ahead early on to encourage higher and more reckless betting, or it may be good enough to scrape opening bids off of many unsuspecting players.
The AI is "able to use its opponents' actions to infer certain things about their hands"
While it may seem logical to use the actions of people playing to determine something about their hands, in reality people do not play logically. My uncle has been playing spades for probably better than 30 years, yet I have yet in my relatively limited 10+ years of playing to determine any rational for how he plays. Basically, he really sucks at spades. No matter how "Intelligent" artifical or otherwise I manage to code a game, it can't reason out the reasoning behind a non-logical person.
Good quote I say somewhere: Artifical intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!
And this holds true for more than card game AI. It will not be too long until AI could reasonably drive around and get from point A to point B safely. But it will be a damn long time before it can do it if it has to share the road with people driving as well!
The injunction has been blocked, at least temporarily.
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Aug. 18, 2006, 1:13PM
Court Blocks Order to Turn Off Dish DVRs
By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press
DALLAS -- A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a trial judge's order that EchoStar Communications Corp., parent of the Dish satellite-TV service, disable more than 3 million digital video recorders.
When the install ask for the virgin's blood, the average slashdotter need only dilute theirs with some Extra Virgin Olive Oil.... this dilutes the "virgin" quality down to a reasonable level... after that the install works just fine!
To everyone's consternation, Gödel suddenly informed the presiding judge that he had discovered a way in which a dictatorship could be legally installed in the United States. Fortunately, the judge, who was apparently a very patient person, took this in good part and awarded Gödel his citizenship.
After all, nobody had ever heard of either 9/11 or George W back then eh?
You know you're addicted when your non-geek wife recognizes Slashdot...
My dear wife thought that Linux was black text in a terminal, and that the mud I used to play, Nuke, was green text in a termial. Got alot of mudding in while "learning" Linux to prepare for the future.
But alas, all good things must come to an end. She finally wised up and figured out I could mud in any color text *grin*.
I traded my "Life" for a "Wife". So far in the grand scheme, I have come out way ahead!
... who long for the days of Word Perfect!
Some of them made the transition to MS Word. Just maybe they could handle open office.
As a Debian user for many years... I am not sure if I like this frantic release schedule. I got 3 good years out of Woody... barely got Sarge installed on my test box and a few edge machines, now it almost time to upgrade again.
Sarcasm aside, good job Debian, congrats on earning vendor recognition. News like this does affect hardware purchases. Rather fond of Debian, and a nice blade chasis may be just the ticket.
I got 15 minutes of uptime on this computer and I am not about to lose them because of you!
People who have nothing, or are working dead-end jobs have nothing to lose when they make a career change. What about people with sucessful, at least on a financial level, careers? I have always thought that America is famous for "Rags to Riches" because you can afford to lose alot of rags before you get that lucky break and make the riches.
It is harder for people who are married, gainfully employed, have children, mortgages to just change direction. You often hear people say, "Work is called work for a reason. Find something else that makes you happy, and use the money from work to pursue that."
Sometimes a career change is the best thing for someone. Sometimes what you are looking for will not be found in any job or career. I guess each person needs to decide how much they are willing to sacrafice for a chance at something better.
Jr High was like being in the Gladiator Pits. Almost daily fights to defend yourself. I was 5'1" at the end of 8th grade. I was 5'9" at the beginning of 9th, and 6' at the end. All of a sudden nobody wanted to fight anymore.
Problem is the authorities taking a hands off approach to bullies, but zero tolerance to self defense.
Despite many objections, said textbooks are not worthless. I have a few myself, that I keep around for various things. A desk that is not quite level, needing to site in a scope on a rifle, mounting motherboard you do not have the right case for... all good uses of these books.
Though I have to admit, as I get older, sometimes I find math a bit more intersting than when I was required to take the courses. If I had to take them again, doubt I would do it voluntarily, I might well learn more the second ( okay more like 5th ) time around.
Whenever you work on computers, it does not hurt to take notes of interesting problems/solutions. This is even more true if you are working on Linux boxes and still a relative newbie. While relearning is sometimes necessary, the time to do it is not when you have a dead/dying machine to get back up.
Document what you do, and later with a little more experience under your belt, go back and see if you can improve upon what you did before.
And for those of you who are utter genious and have excellent memory, just wait. Funny how as you get older, it either gets harder to remember everything. Might be because there is more to remember, or your priorities change and how to fix random computer problem is no longer the highlight of your life.
Buy my book, but do not open it right away. Put it on a shelf somewhere, or even in a cardboard box. Go use,break,fix, work on computers for about 3 to 5 years, then come get the book, if you can find it.
You will find the book to be completely worthless, same as if you had read it the first day you got it. But it will not matter, because more than likely the experience you got from owning it, and the years of working with computers will have given you the best "experience" possible.
The price of civil disobedience is arrest/contempt of court charges, and whatever punishment you are given.
You do not get to be a Martyr without suffering/dying for a cause.
Same thing applies to "freedom of speech" being construed to protect you from the outcome of expressing an opinion. You are allowed to speak freely without having yourself or your family persecuted by authorities. It does NOT protect you from the opinions of others who have as much right to judge you on your words and actions. And they have the same right to express their opinions as you do.
Often many people have to suffer before a positive change occurs. You do not get the moral high ground just by standing in front of a tank. You often have to be run over before it really matters.
Congress wants to make sure your tubes are tied if you are serving up porn. ... to protect the children and all that!
I believe that algorithm is patented by the Catholic Church.
Any attempt to reproduce or use that algorithm without express consent of the Catholic Church condemns you to an eternity in a fiery hell!
Or at least a few centuries in purgatory.
Are people who went to Catholic school as children scared of penguins?
... This way no one else can ever... EVER ... build another interface that bad again!
Seriously, their admin interface is one of the most horrible I have ever come across.
Some states are moving to require this. They are being blocked by people claiming that older/impoverished people will be disenfranchised because they will have to have birth certificates and prove who they are to get a "free" voter ID if they do not have a standard ID like a driver's license.
Read more here at NPR with Audio
Don't worry, the poor disenfranchised can get a tax CREDIT!
The money they get from the rest of us will help "pay" for the election.
... I hear undressing the ladies in Russia is easy... getting them to put down their knives,axes, and AK's is much much more difficult!
vibroknives are used to cut a loaf of fresh bread without crushing the loaf with virtually no pressure required.
Looks like a fine wire or long cheese cutter, but vibrates so fast that gravity alone can let it cut thru virtually anything.
Vibrosaws were used to cut stone for the great pyramids as well.
Sword version are logical offsprings.
Note: Jedi's are not allowed to use vibrosword/knives/saws because no "Force" is required in their use.
Oh, and a specially hired dominatrix worked him over for making us use Outlook.
I thought that said, "Oh, and a specially hired dominatrix who worked him over by making him use Outlook."
Now that would be sadistic!
Censorship can seem like a good thing in theory. Keeping the "bad" things away from the people who do not want or need them. The problem comes from when someone(s) gets to arbitrarily decide what other people do and do not want or need.
Who gets to decide? Who can influence the decisions? Can/Do people get to decide for themselves what is trusted?
The last point is where we are now and it apparently does not work. People in general do not know what they can trust and not trust. So they have to rely on "experts". But what about the people who are "experts" in their own right and do not trust the other "experts".
Another person on slashdot put it quite well by saying:
"Censorship is like saying a grown man can not have steak because a baby can not chew it."