Back in my Intro to CS course, we did a version of the prisoner's dilemma
(http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PRISDIL.html) that was pretty fun. We each
implemented a "person" who could play in the game. All the solutions were
thrown into a pool. Then a group of 10 or so were pulled out. Random
pairings were made and the game was played on each pair. Repeat 10,000
times or so, and then get the next group from the pool. The winners of each
group (top1, top2, whatever) went into the next round's pool and it repeated
until the last round had a pool of 10 who duked it out for the championship.
Sounds stupid and simple, but it was really fascinating. The best solutions
(I finished in the top 10, but got slaughtered by the top 3) did some
amazing stuff with tracking probabilities across the competitors.
Cheers,
barneyb
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