Kids that have no interest in science aren't going to magically because they see some movie with a blackhole or periodic table in it...
we need to make sure those kids who do have an interest keep in that direction and get into a science related field in the future instead of thinking its "not cool" and going into something stupid because we all know science is the best ever and that it IS cool...now if we can only convince kids of this before theyve got it embedded in their heads that if being smart=not cool then science = geek that gets picked on... which is totally not the case...
i love science, technology, and being a geek
i don't care what the media portrays it as
Now if only we could get kids to actually READ his books...then it would be even better then them waiting for the movies to come out so they can sit on their butts for 2 hours shoving popcorn down their throats while they halfly pay attention to a version the media has twisted to include naked girls and advertizements for snack foods...
I am not saying RPS is not a real skill game. I agree it is a more social game than a computer could probably pull off and play well, but it could be programmed to keep track of patterns a person could subconsciously be doing, and apply a RPS gambit (http://www.worldrps.com/gambits.html) to try to win. I've tested these strategies against a computer that was picking random choices and some worked better than others. So, if a person was really choosing by random, maybe some of the strategies would work if a machine used them. But, since our brains are always picking out tiny patterns and can not do something 100% randomly, could a program potentially pick up on subtle patterns?
I never got a chance to have Rock, Paper, Scissors battles between basic programs to play the games, but I am also curious how they'd do against each other or if more complex programs could do reasonably well against a human...
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Kids that have no interest in science aren't going to magically because they see some movie with a blackhole or periodic table in it... we need to make sure those kids who do have an interest keep in that direction and get into a science related field in the future instead of thinking its "not cool" and going into something stupid because we all know science is the best ever and that it IS cool...now if we can only convince kids of this before theyve got it embedded in their heads that if being smart=not cool then science = geek that gets picked on... which is totally not the case... i love science, technology, and being a geek i don't care what the media portrays it as
Now if only we could get kids to actually READ his books...then it would be even better then them waiting for the movies to come out so they can sit on their butts for 2 hours shoving popcorn down their throats while they halfly pay attention to a version the media has twisted to include naked girls and advertizements for snack foods...
by the way: stephen baxter kicks ass
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I am not saying RPS is not a real skill game. I agree it is a more social game than a computer could probably pull off and play well, but it could be programmed to keep track of patterns a person could subconsciously be doing, and apply a RPS gambit (http://www.worldrps.com/gambits.html) to try to win. I've tested these strategies against a computer that was picking random choices and some worked better than others. So, if a person was really choosing by random, maybe some of the strategies would work if a machine used them. But, since our brains are always picking out tiny patterns and can not do something 100% randomly, could a program potentially pick up on subtle patterns? I never got a chance to have Rock, Paper, Scissors battles between basic programs to play the games, but I am also curious how they'd do against each other or if more complex programs could do reasonably well against a human...