Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I don’t recommend TV shows to people all that often. I’m choosing to make an exception for The Queen’s Gambit, a limited Netflix series that showed up during the last half of 2020. Now, before anyone points this out: I know that it’s a book first, and no, I haven’t read it (although certainly will…

Does anyone remember when Deep Blue was the best it could get for board games played by artificial intelligence? Let’s not brag about it too much, but today, Bridge Base Online has GIB. GIB is short for either Ginsberg’s Intelligent Bridgeplayer, or Goren-in-a-Box. I guess it depends who you ask. If you’re new to BBO,…

A game of bridge is a collection of statistics, and the stats change with every trick. To play a game of bridge, chess, or anything else that gets played on a tabletop, strategy isn’t stagnant. Strategy changes with every move. What you’re doing with your cards or pieces halfway through the game often has nothing…