No clue what this is about? Read the previous posts on my Bridge bot Desiderius first. Bidding without a trump! Now that we have hands with cards, we can start defining bids. As explained, in bridge a bid is defined with two values: the number of tricks you think you can make. The lowest you can […]
Data Types for Desiderius – [part 2]
In case you missed it, I picked up my old hobby of playing bridge, but because I do not have any friends to play with, I am making a Bridge Bot. My ultimate goal is to participate in the World Championships of Computer Bridge. The basic data types I started by creating a few abstract […]
Getting a computer to play Bridge
When I was a teenager, my best friend Hugo invited me to join him on his family vacation with his parents. There was one condition though, I had to learn bridge so we could play every night. His parents tried to get his brother and sister to play, but they denied, so I had to […]
On changing your mind: Black Pete
This is me in blackface ‘Zwarte Piet’ (Black Pete) in 2010. At this party, a Chinese colleahue approached me and basically said that this was kinda no ok. And I was like “what? no! this is a party!” But now, I would not do blackface again! Slowly over time I have come to realize that […]
People on the internet…
Recently, I had a discussion with someone who refused to believe that bias against minorities is a thing, despite me explaining several scientific studies that prove that bias exist. The problem is not that this was a specifically ignorant person (in fact, he has a PhD, so you would think he understands scientific outcomes and how […]
