I am no poker player, but I know the basic rules (Texas Hold'em), having casually played one to one games against the computer on a friend's iPad. In the process I got interested in how the computer evaluates the strength of the hands as in quite a few cases an exhaustive enumeration of all possibilities is very long / impossible and in almost all cases a hand evaluator must be really fast to have any practical value...
So, perusing the internet, I ran into SpecialK's blog and was instantly admirative. His algorithm is so elegant, so simple, and therefore lightning fast, that the next time I blinked, I saw the allegory of speed and elegance combined... The glorious vision was something like this.
And it is so improbably fitting computers architecture (specifically 32 bit integers) that there is almost a divine touch to it...
Ok, after the emotion following the discovery, here is some information.
So, perusing the internet, I ran into SpecialK's blog and was instantly admirative. His algorithm is so elegant, so simple, and therefore lightning fast, that the next time I blinked, I saw the allegory of speed and elegance combined... The glorious vision was something like this.
And it is so improbably fitting computers architecture (specifically 32 bit integers) that there is almost a divine touch to it...
Ok, after the emotion following the discovery, here is some information.
