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Comment AI has great chances (Score 1) 89

Poker games take time (hours), people grow tired, computers don't.
People struggle at memorizing chances, taking shortcuts, computers have exact picture talking into account every single bit.

All one needs is behavior that is random enough, for human players not to guess if computer is bluffing.

Then, of course, there is luck factor, so results will fluctuate quite a bit.

Comment Re:I thought we were trying to end sexism? (Score 1) 599

BS.
There is a huge difference between men and women in general.
The article you've linked merely covers intelligence (which is only PART of what people are).
And even there you have missed an elephant in the room:

"...The differences in average IQ between men and women are small in magnitude and inconsistent in direction, although the variability of male scores has been found to be greater than that of females, resulting in more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution..."

and I don't quite get why did you even link that:

"...There are however differences in the capacity of males and females in performing certain tasks, such as rotation of object in space, often categorized as spatial ability. Other traditionally male advantages, such as in the field of mathematics, are not so clear-cut..."

Yay, we are not different... Somehow...

Comment Re:what will be more interesting (Score 1) 662

Uh, no, McDonald's had NOT "served coffee at a temperature above their own published standards".
It was within their (and national coffee association's),standards and in fact McDonalds continues to serve coffee at 80–90 C (176–194 F).
Coffee served to Liebeck was within 80–190 F (82–88 C).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Comment Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" (Score 1) 765

What kind of "media"?
They are not exposed to TV.
They don't read newspapers.
Boy isn't in kindergarten yet, neither was his sister at his age.
On the street ads, most of the time they see nude females on bikes driving through the river and a big bottle beside them. (never figured how they were related, maybe if you drink much of that, you'll start to see nude women driving through a river)

When we (parents) are watching Hollywood movies with massive battle screens, my wife is in "OMG what on earth are they doing it" mode. "Why are those guys on the ladder climbing, it's guaranteed death...". I never wondered about that. It should be, probably because someone at the kindergarten showed me pics of men slaughtering each other, explaining, that's the way to go. I don't recall that, but there must be something like that, cause even though volumes of hormones in our bodies are so different,we should still think the same, right?

Comment Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" (Score 4, Insightful) 765

Look. Regarding that "forcefully discouraged" thing I keep hearing.
I have two kids, a girl and a boy.
The boy is younger.
Most toys he got earlier were his sister's.
And, mind you, I bought a lot of "boy" toys for my daughter (actually the first toys she got were "boy" toys, because "why on earth would we force "girly" stuff on hear" I said, but she got full range of em).
So lot's of cars and other machinery.
She played with cars now and then.

But my boy is simply obsessed with them. He has piles of toys to choose from, all kinds of them, but "Car" was one of the first words he learned.

I'm pretty sure out there somewhere someone is explaining that women are underrepresented in auto sports, cause, you know, "they are forcefully discouraged".

Here is, what I want to tell you: just STFU, ok? Cause MEN AND WOMEN ARE simply DIFFERENT!!. Nobody bans any sex from anything, but some disparity in some areas is more than natural.

Comment Re:INTEGRATED GRAFIX!!1! (Score 1) 161

Jokes aside, AMD's integrated graphics does quite well (at least both Sony and Microsoft were happy to use that in their last gen consoles).

However finding good laptop WITH GOOD SCREEN with AMD's APUs seems impossible.

PS
Oh, and recently German amazon advertised new Intel's APU's (with Iris) for integrated GPU performance (still behind AMD's, while being much more expensive). Sigh...

Comment Re:Relaxing = Live longer? (Score 1) 208

Note that air is also very dry in saunas.
90C is nothing special, everyone can easily stand it for at least 10-15 mins.

Germans also do "Aufguss" (not sure what Fins call it or whether they do it) in 90C.
It's when they also add humidity into the picture, normally in 3 rounds. Depending on Sauna/who is doing it, it can quickly get to unbearable levels.

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