(Soundbite of rolling dice) Unidentified Man: Yeah.

(掷骰子声)某男：噢！

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"This president basically is rolling the dice, he is making the most important decision of his presidency, betting on his ability to work with Pakistan and get this shared problem of the two Talibans under control,".

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Well as we'll see later in the term, we're going to use a lot of randomness in a lot of our programs. Where we essentially do the equivalent of flipping coins or rolling dice.

我们会在晚些时候学到，我们会在很多程序中,用到一系列的随机检验,这跟掷骰子或者扔硬币差不多。

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"If the player is just rolling dice to update status and once every 20 minutes he gets to make a decision, that's horrible, " Beach said.

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Nevertheless, the evidence from more than 50 years of research is conclusive: for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than like playing poker.

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Strategy board games back in the 1970s and '80s, like "Blitzkrieg" and "War in Europe, " were simulation-type games requiring players to spend a lot of time rolling dice to resolve combat or find out different game stats -- weather conditions, civil unrest, troop rally points.

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