Chapter One Trey/zh-cn: Revision history

28 January 2026

• curprev 14:4114:41, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 74,901 bytes +5,629 Created page with "My dad, for his part, is drawn to my mom’s energy, her quick mind and fearlessness about saying how she feels, even when it comes to telling other people what’s best for them. “Bill, I think it would be a fine idea if you were to…” is probably something he heard soon after getting to know her. 至于我爸，他被我妈的活力、敏捷的思绪，以及勇于表达想法的特质所吸引——就算是在建议别人怎么做对他们最好时，她也很..."
• curprev 13:5813:58, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 69,272 bytes +5,932 Created page with "Growing up, Kristi and I would ride the ferry to Bremerton to visit my father’s parents. From the ferry we’d walk a short distance up the hill to the house where my dad grew up. It was a small blue Craftsman on a quiet street. We’d stay with my grandparents for a night or two. If the TV was on, my grandfather would be watching boxing, which was pretty much the one diversion he allowed himself. My paternal grandmother, Lillian Elizabeth Gates, had the same spark for..."
• curprev 13:3813:38, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 63,340 bytes +854 Created page with "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 uniq..."
• curprev 13:3513:35, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 62,486 bytes +1,553 Created page with "What educators and my parents noted at an early age were hints of what would come. I channeled the same intensity that drew me into solving the puzzle of Gami’s card skill into anything that interested me—and nothing that didn’t. The things that interested me included reading, math, and being alone in my own head. The things that didn’t were the daily rituals of life and school, handwriting, art, and sports. Also, mostly everything my mother told me to do. 教..."
• curprev 13:3213:32, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 60,933 bytes +871 Created page with "Where my mom got her confidence and ambition was probably equal parts the Maxwell side and Gami, who, beyond her card-table acuity, was valedictorian of her high school class, a gifted basketball player, widely read, and aimed for a bigger life outside of her hometown. It was at the University of Washington that she met my grandfather. My mom followed, entering UW in 1946 with the full support of two ambitious parents and a family-wide expectation that she would excel...."
• curprev 13:3213:32, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 60,062 bytes +774 Created page with "I am staring at my cards, my head racing to find matches. Then I hear Gami say: “Your six card plays.” And then, “Your nine card plays.” She’s coaching my sister and me while also playing her own hand. She somehow grasps everything happening at the table and even seems to know the cards we’re each holding—and it’s not magic. How is she doing it? To anyone who plays cards, this is basic stuff. The more closely you can track your opponent’s hand, the bett..."
• curprev 13:3013:30, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 59,288 bytes +10,774 Created page with "In my second year at Acorn Academy, I arrived “a newly aggressive, rebellious child,” a four-year-old who liked singing solo and taking imaginary trips. I scuffled with other kids, and was “frustrated and unhappy much of the time,” the director reported. Fortunately, my teachers were heartened by my long-term plans: “We feel very accepted by him since he is including us as passengers on his proposed moon shot,” they wrote. (I was ahead of Kennedy by a few yea..."
• curprev 12:2212:22, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 48,514 bytes +4,730 Created page with "I was about eight when I got my first glimmer of how she did it. I still remember the day: I’m sitting across from my grandmother at the dining room table, Kristi next to me. The room has one of those huge old wooden radios that even then was a relic of the past. Along another wall is a big cabinet where Gami stored the special dishes that we used every Sunday for dinner. 当我第一次了解到她是如何做到的时，我大约八岁。我仍然记得那天：餐..."
• curprev 01:5501:55, 28 January 2026 York talk contribs 43,784 bytes +114 Created page with "In my family there was no faster way to win favor than to be good at games, especially card games. If you were confident in rummy or bridge or canasta, you had our respect, which made my maternal grandmother, Adelle Thompson, a household legend. “Gami’s the best at cards” was something I heard a lot as a kid. 在我家，想赢得青睐最好的方法就是要很会玩游戏，尤其是纸牌游戏。如果你是拉密（rummy）、桥牌或是凯纳斯特纸牌..."
• curprev 01:4701:47, 28 January 2026 FuzzyBot talk contribs 43,670 bytes +43,670 Updating to match new version of source page