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Saturday, February 14, 2009

A randomness game

Sean Gerrish sent me this game in which I have to generate a sequence of 1s and 0s as random as possible and try not to be predicted by the computer:

http://seed.ucsd.edu/~mindreader/

I haven't succeeded so far and I'm not aware of any human being who has succeeded in the game. Let me know if you do.
Posted by Jiaying Zhao at 12:59 PM
Labels: Randomness

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