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geardaddy

(24,924 posts)
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 04:16 PM Sep 2018

Mark Zuckerberg developed algorithm to beat teenage girl at Scrabble

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-mark-zuckerberg-scrabble-algorithm-20180911-story.html

It’s not just a game.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed how seriously he takes winning after he was defeated at scrabble by a friend’s 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
He can do this kind of thing MontanaMama Sep 2018 #1
My favorite part of all this... jmowreader Sep 2018 #2
He's almost but not quite sdfernando Sep 2018 #3
Vocabulary is hard. nt alphafemale Sep 2018 #4
Erm, this has existed for decades. joshcryer Sep 2018 #5
Isn't that called cheating. I call him an asshole for cheating madinmaryland Sep 2018 #6
Developed--I paid some nerd to write it and then took the property right to it, without attribution. TheBlackAdder Sep 2018 #7
That TwistOneUp Sep 2018 #8
Sounds Like The Perfect Veep For Comrade Trump Me. Sep 2018 #9
What a pathetic loser! smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #10
Pretty weak sauce, there, Marky. MineralMan Sep 2018 #11

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
2. My favorite part of all this...
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 04:46 PM
Sep 2018

...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
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 06:05 PM
Sep 2018

like Kirk....

I'm with David in that he cheated.

Not with Kirk that he changed the conditions.

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)
8. That
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 06:22 PM
Sep 2018

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

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