In China, a Rocky Ascent for Basketball. I love this quote:
Chinese players like Wang Yong of the Dongguan Leopards support the increased participation of foreign players. "Chinese and foreign players are a harmonious blend," he said. "I've learned a lot from them this season and feel I am a better player."
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The games that we've looked at so far are the simplest case of
basic games. In these games, we've got a payoff matrix, and both players
can see the whole matrix - the players have equal information,
Hypothesis: The outcome of any pick-up basketball game depends more strongly on the match-up between the two worst players on each team than the match-up between the two best players on each team.
In game theory, perhaps the most important category of simple games is
something called zero sum games. It's also one of those mathematical
things that are widely abused by the clueless - you constantly hear
For several years, researchers have been contrasting human-human and human-computer interactions in order go gain more insight into theory of mind. The assumption is that people don't treat computers like, well, people. It's not a totally unfounded assumption, either.
Great article with great one-liners! Here's another:
âThis season we will put a knife to the neck of any referee who is involved in match-fixing or bribery,â Liu Xiaonong, the commissioner of the C.B.A., said last year...
Bonzi Wells is lazing across the article's first image in front of his bench.
It was either Jeff Van Gundy or Hubie Brown who said emphatically of coaching Wells during a live broadcast: "Once was enough!"
Any blend which has Bonzi in it cannot be harmonious.
I remember reading from Gabe Muoneke's blog that he was attacked by five Chinese guys after a game in a tunnel leading out of a stadium. The strangeness of the event was not lost on Gabe. Since when does that happen outside of a kung fu movie?