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Originally Posted by Phil153
Fuzzy logic is pretty lowbrow concept. It's one of those ideas that someone was bound to think up no matter what, the creator is just whichever douchebag crossed the line first.
Fuzzy set theory may be just that for statistics, pretty lowbrow. But it was certainly a highly valuable concept to linguistics and artificial intelligence. In fact, it still is. Predicate logic had been static and binary since the days of Aristotle. Formalizing your dynamic or fuzzy logic to work from axiomas and be accepted is a big accomplishment, no matter how intuitive and simple the concept is viewed afterwards.
Gravity theorems were bound to come up too, it was just a matter on whos head landed the apple.
About Sklansky's rating I found this pearl in Championship No-Limit & Pot-Limit Hold'em (On the the Road to the World Series of Poker)
by T.J. Cloutier and Tom McEvoy
Tom has said that no-limit hold'em probably is the most
patient of all the poker games. Being patient is good, up to a
point. Players like David Sklansky are very patient players,
very good players, but they aren't going to get there very often
because they play the same all the way through the tournament.
You have to be very changeable as situations arise
while you are going through the stages of a tournament. This
is why some of the theoreticians like Sklansky and Malmuth
do not do exceptionally well in tournaments: They don't adapt
to the ebb and flow of tournament competition. Tom thinks
that this may be because their play is too math-oriented, too
mechanical... they lack flair.