Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-28 Thread Rustom Mody
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 3:46:24 AM UTC+5:30, John Ladasky wrote: > I thought that Patrick Grim's analysis was very interesting, showing that the > Spatialized Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (SIPD) could emulate the Wireworld > cellular automaton, which is a Turing-complete system. Thus, th

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-28 Thread Seymore4Head
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:16:05 -0700 (PDT), John Ladasky wrote: >On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 1:10:14 PM UTC-7, Robert Kern wrote: >> On 2015-04-28 07:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> I do believe he is trying to make a crude joke. > >I agree, that's what he's doing. And I find it ironic, since he

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-28 Thread John Ladasky
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 1:10:14 PM UTC-7, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2015-04-28 07:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I do believe he is trying to make a crude joke. I agree, that's what he's doing. And I find it ironic, since he started this thread, and seemed to invite a serious discussion of th

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-28 Thread Robert Kern
On 2015-04-28 07:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tuesday 28 April 2015 13:18, Seymore4Head wrote: In the past, I have had some measure of success with the Toot for Tail strategy. I don't believe that is a standard name for an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma strategy. I've googled for it, using two

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tuesday 28 April 2015 13:18, Seymore4Head wrote: > In the past, I have had some measure of success with the Toot for Tail > strategy. I don't believe that is a standard name for an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma strategy. I've googled for it, using two different search engines, and neither com

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-27 Thread Seymore4Head
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:50:03 -0700 (PDT), John Ladasky wrote: >On Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 6:41:08 PM UTC-7, Seymore4Head wrote: > >> Richard Dawkins explains with passion the idea of game theory and tit >> for tat, or why cooperation with strangers is often a strong strategy. >> >> He talks o

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-26 Thread John Ladasky
Following up to myself... Here's a link to Patrick Grim's results that you can actually download (Springer really retains a 1997 research paper behind a paywall?): http://www.pgrim.org/pgrim/SPATIALP.HTM -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-26 Thread John Ladasky
On Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 6:41:08 PM UTC-7, Seymore4Head wrote: > Richard Dawkins explains with passion the idea of game theory and tit > for tat, or why cooperation with strangers is often a strong strategy. > > He talks of a computer program tournament. I don't know what I could > say that

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
Seymore4Head writes: > Richard Dawkins explains with passion the idea of game theory and tit > for tat, or why cooperation with strangers is often a strong strategy. > > He talks of a computer program tournament. Thanks! That is what would be great to have when you present the link in the first

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-26 Thread Rustom Mody
On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 7:11:08 AM UTC+5:30, Seymore4Head wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:40:04 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > >Seymore4Head writes: > > > >> Anyone here worked on trying a better strategy? > > > >If you want us to spend the time visiting a link, please spend the time > >yourse

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-26 Thread Seymore4Head
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:40:04 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >Seymore4Head writes: > >> Anyone here worked on trying a better strategy? > >If you want us to spend the time visiting a link, please spend the time >yourself to summarise why it's relevant here. Do so in the initial post >with the link. Ri

Re: Tit for tat

2015-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
Seymore4Head writes: > Anyone here worked on trying a better strategy? If you want us to spend the time visiting a link, please spend the time yourself to summarise why it's relevant here. Do so in the initial post with the link. -- \ “Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through th