Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-12-2009

[andrewducker]

• OpenBitTorrent - An open tracker project
  Replacing the Tracker part of Pirate Bay. Now, the search engine bit is the other chunk - and that's much more open to leverage...
  (tags: bittorrent p2p opensource filesharing torrents)
• Mindreader Applet
  You choose 1 or 0 - it tries to guess what you'll choose. Can you be more random than predictable? Damned if I can be...
  (tags: game math statistics AI)
• Office 2010 The Movie
  Ow. Ow. Ow. Watch the trailer and share my pain!
  (tags: microsoft office video funny office2010 marketing software)

Comments

office 2010

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

MS have too much cash!

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

I really can't tell if that last one is genuine or a send-up. Anyone?

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Mindreader: I won twice and lost twice, the difference being I won by 1 and 2 but lost by 7 and 15. I suspect you could get good at it though - assuming it doesn't cheat at all.

[meico.livejournal.com]

Office 2010 The Movie

I threw up into my mouth a little.

I reminded me of the time a compnay I worked for got taken over by another and the head of that compnay came to our offices and told us, "We're cool, see- no tie." while he stood in a full suit with loafers and all, but with a black t-shirt underneath his suit.

I threw up into my mouth a little then too.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

It's not really that hard to win Mindreader - my best strategy was to do a short sequence of all 1 or all 0 followed by switching when the computer caught up.

[simont]

I was suspicious of Mindreader after it won handily on effectively random data: I entered the binary expansion of pi, and then (in case the former had been a special case it knew about) that of pi*e/phi. However, I downloaded its source code and tested it in an environment where I could be sure it wasn't cheating, and it appears it did legitimately get lucky on those two sequences. It loses on sqrt(2) :-)

[andrewducker]

pi - not as random as you might think!