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Re: Basic prisoner's dilemma?

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On Apr 17, 8:54 pm, Esmond Pitt <esmond.p...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> On 18/04/2011 1:15 PM, Lew wrote:
>
> > Tell us more about this contest. Where is it held? Do you have a link?
> > What can you win?
>
> ... and then tell us why we should help *you* rather than try to win it
> ourselves. Prisoner's dilemma in fact ;-)


Thanks for the messages! This is a sample question from a competition
a couple of years ago. Someone passed it to me in my university
department passed it to me and suggested I try it out in order to
think more about prisoner's dilemma and learn java (I'm still a
novice, I'm afraid) I believe it may have been from
http://www.prisoners-dilemma.com/competition.html

So I am trying to figure out how I could create a tit for tat strategy
using an Arraylist. Or even a set of random outcomes based on the
history. Any help would be appreciated. The "win" for me in this case
is a better understanding of java.

You don't need to help if you don't want to, but of course it would be
appreciated. If don't want to help, it could be great if you could
point in me in the correct direction - how could make it output random
DEFECT or COOPERATE? and then following on that, how could I start
thinking about a Tit for Tat strategy?

Thanks so much!

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