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Subject: Re: My "Guess Which Hand The Penny's In" Game Beats Julia's!

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 10:30:29 02/04/03

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On February 04, 2003 at 13:29:44, Graham Laight wrote:

>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.

Link: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/Games/binlearn.htm

>-g



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