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Why Man is not a Particularly Good Source of Entropy (loper-os.org)
20 points by asciilifeform on Oct 24, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


I was winning after about 60 moves but then got bored and made too long of a string of consecutive ones and the computer caught up. This would be a much better game if I could play it with the keyboard, as I was having difficulty clicking accurately with my mouse (going very fast).


> This would be a much better game if I could play it with the keyboard

You can. Just press 0 or 1.


Sadly, that doesn't appear to work on my browser. FireFox 11.0.


Indeed, this implementation let you cheat: while the program tries to learn your behavior, you can learn the program's and outguess it. The random sequence should be provided blindly, and the program should process it a posteriori, for the subtitle to be relevant.


I had to play over 250 rounds to start winning. Of course, I was cheating.


thank you for sharing, could you pleas provide the original algorithm in pseudo code? Ore some link to references. TY


High level explanation: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1p3ti1/you_are_...

The code itself is very short. Just read the last function: http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.js





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