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Starting Hand Standards
A reasonable set of opening requirements at most tables would be as follows:
**Early position**: Ten high or better badugis; Smooth 7 high tris or better
**Hijack**: Jack high or better badugis, Smooth 8 high tris or better
**Cut-off**: All badugis, 8 high tris or better, A2 and A3
**Button**: All badugis, 9 high tris or better, A2, A3, 23, A4
Badugi Rules and Basic Strategy
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Eigengrau
ˈaɪɡənɡɹaʊ
*Noun*
• The dark gray color seen by the eyes in perfect darkness as a result of signals from the optic nerves.
**Example Sentences**
“Before my eyes adjusted to the dark, all I could see was eigengrau.”
“Henry awoke in the eigengrau of total darkness, so he quickly turned on his lamp.”
“The darkness of the sub-basement seemed eigengrau to my eyes.”
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**Word Origin**
German, mid-20th century
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**Why this word?**
“Eigengrau” is a German loanword used to describe the specific color of total darkness as perceived by human eyes.
Rather than black, the color that human optic nerves discern in pure darkness is a dark gray, which is why eigengrau is sometimes called “brain gray.”
Eigengrau is close to what might be called “charcoal gray,” but the word’s German roots specify that this is a gray created inside the viewer’s brain.
In German, “eigengrau” translates to “own gray,” or “intrinsic gray,” suggesting the shade might shift, depending on the viewer’s perception.
As shocking as that might initially seem, we should not to be totally surprised.
Seven years of AI has taught us that deep learning is unpredictable, and not always human like.
“Adversarial attacks” like these have shown remarkable weakness, time and again, repeatedly establishing that what deep learning systems do just isn’t the same as what people do:
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David Beats Go-Liath
Gary Marcus
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