Weird Looking: cats...

My landlady’s cat got squashed in the street right after I posted that, and I got the unenviable task of aggregating its body parts in a trash bag.

I can only assume my blog is cursed like a monkey’s paw.  From now on, I’ll only ask for things that couldn’t possibly hurt anyone.  Like marshmallows.

Ahem…

http://pedsccm.wustl.edu/RARE/Chubby_bunny.html

http://www.thesource4ym.com/archives/arc20000627.asp

“Most of you have played the game Chubby Bunnies, the game where you stuff numerous marshmallows in kids' mouths until they can’t say Chubby Bunnies anymore.”

“Well, this game is raising a stink, as apparently, some kids died playing the game.”

Wow, I love irrational parents.  You know, the kind who freak out over kids building human pyramids.

That site reminded me that I intended to write a peer-to-peer cryptographically secure rock/paper/scissor game.  I mean, it’d be pretty easy to cheat without a good scheme.

At least it happened afterwards, so you know that you didn’t eat a cat that you knew in the “chicken.”

The best way to cheat at rock/paper/scissors would be to write a genetic algorithm that learns how a person plays.  I’d imagine that even a person who thought they were playing randomly would have some hidden pattern that a good genetic algorithm might catch on to.  I know they can pick up on patterns in pseudo-random number generators, so one should be able to at least win more than 50% with enough training.

That’s be a lot more interesting than the Deep Blue chess match.

In OOP class, we had an assignment to write something that played iterative prisoner's dilemma.  Then we had a tournament with the whole class.  Mine used a simple genetic algorithm and came in third place, right behind “cooperate 7 times and betray from then on”.