Author: Graham Laight
Date: 10:29:44 02/04/03
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On February 04, 2003 at 08:05:27, Graham Laight wrote: >Here's how to play the two games against each other: > >1. Start both games in seperate web browsers: > http://www.jtan.com/guess/ > http://mysite.freeserve.com/grahamlaight/jscript/GuessWhichHand.htm > >2. On my version, select "Party" mode > >3. On my version, click on Start, and select 49 attempts > >4. If my game selects "Right", select "Left" on Julia's game (and if my game >selects "Left" then select "Right" on Julia's game) > >5. If Julia's game had the penny in her left hand, select "left" on my game (and >if she had the penny in her right hand, select "right" on my game) > >6. Repeat process from step 4 until you've beaten Julia's game! > >Note: my game also beats Sergi's version, which can be found at >http://intelligence.sergi5.com/ . > >As far as I know, my version is the best computer player of this game in the >world! It is with sadness that I have to tell you that I've found a guessing game which can beat mine. It's by an economics professor, and it's based on stochastic analysis (which is what many share trading systems are based on). Over 201 tries, it beat my game by 8 points - though I think my game was catching up towards the end. note: where the professor's game predicted odds of 0.5 for either button, I always selected the left. -g
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