A few weeks ago Alyssa and I were sitting in Sushi Tae talking about RoShamBo. She was talking about her old collage professor's unbeatable gaming statagy for RoShamBo, and offered to demo it by kicking my ass. Being and idiot who has never really thought about RoShamBo I was in a panic trying to figure out how not to get my ass kicked by Alyssa. On the fly I decided to repeat on a lose, and go to the weaker on a tie. This led to much hilarity as I took an imediate lead then we stabilized and tracked evenly.
We compared algorythms and my early advantage was the repatition on a lose.
It seems that now there is a contest to write the best RoShamBo software. In the results are some interesting descriptions of the problem space and some myth truth responses to educate those of us that aren't ai/game theory people.
Via Fark
Cartman: we'll rochambeau for it.
Pip: what's that?
Cartman: First I kick you in the nuts as hard as can...