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...Makes me want to spew." Bunt, for his part, is a pathetic mama's boy who can find release and some measure of independence only with Hong Kong bar girls, "the happy hello-goodbye of urgent sex." Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute: "Brandy was gleaming on Mr. Hung's lips. He looked drunk, his face pinkish and raw, his eyes boiled, and he was smiling in a vicious way as he chewed with his mouth open." And if bad table manners are not disgusting enough, Hung may be guilty of murdering...
Computer scientists very quickly gave up trying to program computers to play like humans. Experiments that took advantage of the brute calculating force of the machines--where the computer analyzes every possible legal move in every position--produced much stronger moves. As computers got faster and the evaluation functions were made better and better, computer chess players just kept getting stronger...
...Benjamin do? He helped the programmers refine Deep Blue's evaluation function to incorporate human "feeling" about how good a position is and he helped Deep Blue zone in on the kinds of moves a human grandmaster would intuitively leap to analyze. Of course, Deep Blue relies primarily on brute force, and it is still very much an open question what the optimal mix of brute force and heuristics...
...must be remembered, however, that although chess is extraordinarily complex, it is inevitably finite--there are always a concrete and limited number of possible moves. By contrast, humans face an infinite number of choices in everyday life, and here, brute force is not an option. Computers, then, will need to find ways to grasp the infinite if they are ever to earn the stamp of true intelligence...
...This paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher?s comment after meeting Mikhail Gorbachev pretty much tips Theroux?s hand in ?Kowloon Tong.? He is aiming at broad political satire, and nearly any target will do. Both the Mullards are contemptible. Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute . . . and may be guilty of murdering one of Imperial Stitching?s working women. Readers who like to take sides will not find palatable choices in ?Kowloon Tong.? Theroux?s distaste for everyone involved in his tale registers clearly and often brilliantly. But it seems reasonable to hope that his vision...