Scott Hoffer (@scotthoffer) 's Twitter Profile
Scott Hoffer

@scotthoffer

Founder @ Forklift Studios (creators of @trickybridge). Advisor to @chesscom. Formerly product/game design at @zynga, @tiltingpoint, @AreaCodeInc

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calendar_today22-11-2008 23:46:43

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Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a drafter of the Refugee Act of 1980, resigns from the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. This is a powerful read:

Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a drafter of the Refugee Act of 1980, resigns from the Homeland Security Advisory Committee.  This is a powerful read:
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So Trump just invited to Washington the president of a country he says is "fighting very hard" to interfere in the 2018 elections. x.com/realDonaldTrum…

Mikel Jollett (@mikel_jollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A president who knows nothing about economics started a trade war which hurt farmers so he put them on welfare with money he's borrowing from the countries he started the trade war with.

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today i asked my class to come up with a pair of terms that share a denotative meaning but whose connotative meanings differ and one student offered BUTT DIAL and BOOTY CALL anyway that student's the professor now

Alexander Jr. (@itsalexjackson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

straight people: gay people are forcing their sexuality onto their children. straight people, to a 5 year old boy talking to a girl: IS THAT YOUR GIRLFRIEND.

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NEW: US officials made list of reporters, lawyers, activists to question at the border, according to documents obtained by NBC 7 San Diego and interviews with people on the list. on.msnbc.com/2ELuTT8

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Still no answer to this question: Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees plus his $200,000 credit card debt plus his $1.2 million mortgage, and purchased themselves a SCOTUS seat?

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What's the most unmarketable indie game you could make? How about one that teaches you how to play BRIDGE? Good guess! So, that's what I'm doing. @trickybridge #gamedev

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Pretty impressive, I’d say. I hope Conway learned of her solution before he died this April of Covid-19. quantamagazine.org/graduate-stude…

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#indiedev What strategy game was on the cover of Sports Illustrated twice, hasn't been solved by computers, is notoriously hard to teach, and is loved by grandmothers? BRIDGE, the classic card game. So, Tricky Bridge will teach you bridge. Coming in Oct bit.ly/2Z46mni

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WHOA! Tricky Bridge is live today. And featured atop the App Store! apps.apple.com/app/id14376521… #playbridge #indiedev

WHOA!

Tricky Bridge is live today. And featured atop the App Store!   apps.apple.com/app/id14376521…

#playbridge #indiedev
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β€œOddly, the only game yet to be conquered by computers is contract bridge… so messy and human that its strategies can’t be simulated by an online bot.”

Noam Brown (@polynoamial) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A few folks have asked me about this. Despite the headline, AI did *not* beat human champions at Bridge: 1) The AI didn't bid (the hardest part!) 2) The AI didn't play with humans. Playing with adaptable humans is much harder than playing with a fixed bot theguardian.com/technology/202…