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| Re: I think that it's a systematic adjustment | |
| Posted By: kidtsunami <davidandrewhelmer@gmail.com> | Date: 12/4/11 5:55 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: I think that it's a systematic adjustment (uberfoop) : True, but whether the risk pays off or not is still to a good extent due to : the coordinated performance of your team and that of the other team. : Obviously there are still factors totally outside the control of the : players, as is inevitable in the real world, but it's usually kept to a : minimum. To a pretty good extent, you can still trace the coordinated : actions of the teams and players as more or less deterministically leading : to a result. I just really don't agree. It's not deterministic and if it was it wouldn't be nearly as interesting to watch or discuss afterwards. Actually the games that are the most deterministic are often the least discussed or interesting. I can't tell you how many live sporting events I've walked out on because of how clearly the other team was better, even the ones where it was the team I was going for. I'm here to watch a game, not a dry demonstration of who is better for hours. There's no drama and nothing to really get excited about as a spectator. : You can't just "think" that the randomness due to bloom is a
poker players are exceptionally good at getting punched in the face. Actually the best pro poker players are extremely good at handling the occasional face punching : *Well, okay, it's a pseudorandom algorithm. Computers would of course have to
I reckon casinos are rainmanning their way to true randomness. I always just take the current millisecond as my seed usually, since a person who could game that would be pretty awesome. : **And a few weird theories of quantum mechanics argue that even that isn't
Yes it is. Having gotten out when we started talking about spin, I'm always on the fence about whether or not everything is deterministic.
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