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...cyberspace, women can disguise their gender. At InterPoker.com six months ago, says site spokesman Peter Marcus, many women took on male identities, fearing they would be easy targets. Having gained confidence, many are now requesting changes to female user names. "Poker is the great equalizer," asserts Duke. "Whether you are 70 or 20, man or woman, there is no physical limitation." Still, the champ believes that to succeed at high-level poker, most women must overcome cultural conditioning against being aggressive...
Zakharevich’s program, featured on her website (www.people.harvard.edu/~zakharev), has two parts. The part that a user sees is a display of white boxes, controlled by a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script, that organizes numbers in a sudoku grid. Another program, written in a computer language called Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language (OCaml), does the actual number evaluation behind the scenes...
...user inputs numbers into the grid, and the program fills the remaining boxes with certain solutions. If a box might contain multiple number possibilities, then the program gives both possibilities, and it is up to the user to choose which one to input in the box before rerunning the program...
...number-evaluation program initially associates each space in the grid with every number possibility from 1 to 9. When the user inputs numbers, possibilities are removed depending on where the numbers are placed. The program then applies a series of rules that yield a grid of solutions, Zakharevich explained...
...recalled most of the time being spent not on the number-evaluation component itself but on manipulating the CGI script which controls the sudoku display, making it more user-friendly...