Optimal Rock-Paper-Scissors software. It turns out that Rock-Paper-Scissors has strategy! A programming contest demonstrates that there are optimal, non-random strategies that involve anticipating your opponents (provided that they, too are engaged in optimal, non-random strategies that etc...) [Boing Boing Blog]
Now maybe I'll be able to have an edge when I meet up with my friends on Yahoo Fighter. I wish someone would invent something similar for Windows Messenger.
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