Might be why they're working dead-end jobs while in their 30s.
Might be why they're working dead-end jobs while in their 30s.
Hope is the denial of reality
I was referring to the -0+1= -1. Thats a different glitch in these people's minds.Originally Posted by Loki
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
The glitch is called stupidity.
Hope is the denial of reality
That is a pretty persistent glitchI know DecoyMilk's.
Spoiler:
Name the city that is found on every continent.
Find a game where they're not wasting time over pennies?I have a bunch of examples from my old textbook. Don't have the answers to most of them.
The game is played between two players, Player A and Player B. Each player has a penny and must secretly turn the penny to heads or tails. The players then reveal their choices simultaneously. If the pennies match (both heads or both tails) Player A keeps both pennies, so wins one from Player B (+1 for A, -1 for B). If the pennies do not match (one heads and one tails) Player B keeps both pennies, so receives one from Player A (-1 for A, +1 for B). What's the optimum strategy for the two players?
Is the game played once only or repeatedly?
Does it matter? Wouldn't the best strategy just be to set your own coin randomly?
If its just a single round then I would think randomness would work.
If there's multiple rounds then strategies like "do what your opponent did last round" etc come into play. Though if you do that then if your opponent can figure out what strategy you're on then they win. So again not sure how any strategy can win.
What do you mean by randomly?
You are right that it doesn't matter how many times it's played.
Rand, it doesn't matter what your opponent did last round. Everyone has perfect information in this game.
Hope is the denial of reality
Just flip the coin you have and use that result. There's no way to beat this strategy in the long or short-run. (same is true if you were playing paper-rock-scissors)
Close enough I guess.Your strategy should be to play heads and tails with a 50% probability each. Neither player is better off deviating from this strategy.
Hope is the denial of reality
The funny thing is, suppose your opponent wasn't doing 50% for each option (say he did heads EVERYtime) then your strategy would still only tie them. If you're facing a logical opponent it doesn't matter what you do. If I was playing against other humans, I'd start with randomness, but be looking for patterns in their play. Abuse that pattern (if found) until I lost an exchange, then go back to randomness.Close enough I guess.
Last edited by Lebanese Dragon; 09-03-2012 at 08:02 PM.
Take an isotope with a known half-life. Observe it for that long. If it decays, set your coin to heads. Otherwise, set it to tails.
I don't think you can do better, because any other strategy you pick can be observed and countered by your opponent. Thus the optimal strategy for both players is to act randomly, and hope that luck favors them.
edit: I didn't realize that the post list I was responding to was stale; LD already explained for me.
Last edited by Wraith; 09-03-2012 at 05:37 PM.
If the other player is dedicated enough, they'll figure out what you're doing though.
Hope is the denial of reality
That was my point. Any non-random strategy can be figured out and countered. If you pick randomly, it doesn't matter if they figure it out.
edit: I didn't figure out that my previous post was responding to a stale post list until after I made this one.
New Riddle:
What's the best strategy to statistically win a round-robin Penny Game tournament.
Given the lay out of the field is 98 Logicians (who always play 50% heads/tails randomly), 1 strict pattern player, and You.
By Strict Pattern player I mean A player who has a pattern (it is perhaps a complex one) but they never deviate from it, they don't take in any information from your play as an input to their pattern.
The game rules are the same as loki set out, first to a 100 points per pairing.
Last edited by Lebanese Dragon; 09-04-2012 at 01:25 AM.
I feel like I killed the riddles thread somehow. Hint on the riddle I posted above this one: The key is finding a strategy that will statistically have greater probablity of beating the strict pattern guy than the logicians have. 2nd hint: The reason this strategy exist is because you know he has a non-adaptive pattern.
NEW RIDDLE:
Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?
Walk out the door
How do you expect to run with the wolves at night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?
- Omar Little
Guess the door's locked. Use the soil etc dislodged from the tunnel to build a hill to get up to the window and escape through that.
This is correct.
The answer to my other Round Robin Penny Game tournament riddle is:
Spoiler:
Spoiler:
Last edited by Lebanese Dragon; 09-10-2012 at 12:47 AM.
Lots of assumptions in your first "answer", many of them of dubious quality.
I changed some wording but didn't change any meaning in my answer to the riddle, I posed. Also I assumed in the riddle I posted that the Logicians will not change their strategy of play no matter what (which I actually think is quite logical). With that restriction, and the restriction the strict pattern player will also not change his or her pattern then the solution I gave is quite clear.
Abusing patterns is a dangerous game to play when you don't know anything about your opponent, and verse equal players it's nullfied. If you're sufficiently up in points, you can take a risk and check to see if your opponent has caught how strongly you know their pattern (aka try for an abuse). This is a wasted effort verse an equal player (even if that player started the game with a pattern).
You really need to know the percentage of perfect players playing at the tournament, and non-perfect players to know if you should risk trying to abuse a pattern. (In my example you did know that, hence why you can abuse).
Last edited by Lebanese Dragon; 09-10-2012 at 04:23 AM.
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