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All the while, I studied her. In computer science there’s a thing called a state machine, a part of a program that receives an input and, based on the state of a set of conditions, takes the optimal action. My grandmother had a finely tuned state machine for cards; her mental algorithm methodically worked through probabilities, decision trees, and game theory. I couldn’t have articulated these concepts, but slowly I started to intuit them. I noticed that even at unique moments in a game—a combination of possible moves and odds she probably had never seen before—she usually made the optimal move. If she lost a good card at some point, later in the game I’d see she had sacrificed it for a reason: to set herself up for a win down the road.

从头到尾，我一直在研究加米的技巧。在计算机科学领域，有一种名为“状态机”（state machine）的东西，属于程序架构的一部分，能够接收输入，然后根据一组条件的状态采取最佳行动。我的外祖母拥有经过精准调校的纸牌状态机，她的心理算法能有条不紊地处理概率、决策树与博弈论。当时的我无法清楚表达这些概念，但是我已经凭着直觉逐渐理解这些概念。我发现，即使是游戏中的某些特殊时刻，出现加米可能从未见过的出牌与概率组合，她通常也能做出最佳决定。如果她在某个时刻失去了一张好牌，我会在后来的游戏过程中发现，她其实是刻意牺牲掉那张牌：为了最后的胜利而预做准备。

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