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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMark Zuckerberg developed algorithm to beat teenage girl at Scrabble
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-mark-zuckerberg-scrabble-algorithm-20180911-story.htmlIts not just a game.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed how seriously he takes winning after he was defeated at scrabble by a friends teenage daughter.
The tech visionary who has admitted to being competitive by nature developed an algorithm after the loss to give him a competitive edge the next time he faced off against the high schooler on a corporate jet.
His algorithm looked his letters in the dictionary and then allowed him to choose from all the possible words they formed, according to The New Yorker.
The next time the pair met, he was ahead by a small margin by the time the plane landed, according to the report.
During the game in which I was playing the program, everyone around us was taking sides: Team Human and Team Machine, the girl told The New Yorker.
Zuckerberg has described playing games with people who are better than him as infuriating, according to The New Yorker.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed how seriously he takes winning after he was defeated at scrabble by a friends teenage daughter.
The tech visionary who has admitted to being competitive by nature developed an algorithm after the loss to give him a competitive edge the next time he faced off against the high schooler on a corporate jet.
His algorithm looked his letters in the dictionary and then allowed him to choose from all the possible words they formed, according to The New Yorker.
The next time the pair met, he was ahead by a small margin by the time the plane landed, according to the report.
During the game in which I was playing the program, everyone around us was taking sides: Team Human and Team Machine, the girl told The New Yorker.
Zuckerberg has described playing games with people who are better than him as infuriating, according to The New Yorker.
This dude is an absolute turd.
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Mark Zuckerberg developed algorithm to beat teenage girl at Scrabble (Original Post)
geardaddy
Sep 2018
OP
Developed--I paid some nerd to write it and then took the property right to it, without attribution.
TheBlackAdder
Sep 2018
#7
MontanaMama
(23,242 posts)1. He can do this kind of thing
but he can't keep Russians off Facebook? Yup. He's a turd alright.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)2. My favorite part of all this...
...is that his Wile E. Coyote Super Genius Scrabble Cheating Machine only had him ahead by a "small amount."
He must suck at Scrabble as much as he sucks at making websites.
sdfernando
(4,897 posts)3. He's almost but not quite
like Kirk....
I'm with David in that he cheated.
Not with Kirk that he changed the conditions.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)4. Vocabulary is hard. nt
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)5. Erm, this has existed for decades.
But nice of him to think he invented a dictionary search.
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)6. Isn't that called cheating. I call him an asshole for cheating
TheBlackAdder
(28,077 posts)7. Developed--I paid some nerd to write it and then took the property right to it, without attribution.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)8. That
Is a fifteen minute programming job. No big.
What *is* big, though, is that Mr. Zuckerberg had to rely on code to beat a high schooler. And bested by a girl - no chubbie for rwo weeks! lol
Me.
(35,454 posts)9. Sounds Like The Perfect Veep For Comrade Trump
both are big cheaters and small men
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)10. What a pathetic loser!
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)11. Pretty weak sauce, there, Marky.
Whipped by a teen girl. Reminds you of high school, I bet...