Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:20:25 02/20/99
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On February 20, 1999 at 03:21:14, Oliver Y. wrote: >Hey Grandpa! Happy Birthday! Thanks grand son... >To remain on-topic [sort of] remember that discussion we had two months ago >about the differing abilities of men and women for certain tasks? > >I had mentioned my uncle's opinion in this regard--that women are equal to men >in such activities. Well, he's on TV this weekend, I gather you all get such >international broadcasts...so... > >Check out CNN Headline News Channel at 24 to 26 minutes after each hour this >Saturday, maybe Sunday, my uncle Wise, with the beard and glasses, can be seen >for 6 seconds in a piece with Christopher Reeve [played Superman in the movies, >and is in a wheel chair now] and the NY Rangers, some hockey team. Wise is a >scientist...the stories play over every hour this weekend...the piece is about >how Chris has help raise funding and awareness for spinal cord injury research. > >viz., 12:26, 1:26, 2:26...etc. at least in north america... OK, I have cable, etc, I will see your old man... > >He's a really, really nice man, my uncle... > >Okay, to get totally ON TOPIC, here's a survey question: > >Notwithstanding all the complications surrounding Fischer's situation and >people's reaction to him, do you think the chances that he'd agree to a match >with a computer [say, in FischerRandom] are higher than one with a human >contender? > >[The idea that arguments over ego, pride, politics, biases, are somewhat >different here...no, let's not go there too deeply.} > >Yes or No? Yes, but academically. Say that 0,0001% is higher chance than 0,0000001% > >Also: > >See the Economist Magazine, Feb 6-12, 1999, page 87 [or is it 89] re quantum >computers and parallel processing. Nothing too new perhaps? > >Does the quantum computer allow chess to be solved within the next 50 years? > >I think "yes" and that is my estimate for the time to solution. > >What I mean by "solved" is the question mentioned in rgcc, "is chess, played >perfectly by both sides, supposed to be a win for white or a draw? I am not sure of this as much I am not sure what "to be solved" really means here. I am not sure chess is like a linear math problem. There is One solution from first move to the last? I suspect no. I suspect that positions create new space of problems and his own stock of solutions, ad nauseaum. Kind of infinite axis geometry. New worlds. But of course maybe you are right and some practical solution -practical in the sense that a big deal of matter could be solved and so narrow the room for mistery, could be get. > >See "Scientific American" in the late 70's for an interesting article on this. >Maybe the early 70's. > >Hey, this post is the best I can do for a Birthday gift for you...Okay? > >Don't type so much so that your fingers get tired... Deal? Sorry, I am a writer, for me to type is like to breathe. Cheers Fernando, the lyer. :-) > >Best Regards, >Oliver > > >Oliver
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