The Paper Covered Them Both
This morning on SportCenter, they did a piece on the US Rock Paper Scissors Championships, held in Las Vegas.  There were some amazing highlights, including the self-proclaimed Mensa member being beat by the self-proclaimed "professional human being", a job which seems to involve wearing mouse ears and a Catholic schoolgirl outfit even though you're 35.  My favorite was the winner, who said something like this, "I feel like Swayze after he finished filming Roadhouse."  His preparation?  "I shotgunned a ton of beer.  I listened to a ton of Stevie Wonder."  Most refreshing was his perspective, "I can't write a thesis or something like that. I am not very good at intense math or something like that. But rock, paper, scissors is something I am good at." 
 



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There's some biology and math associated with RPS, and some Stanford work. Short intro is at
http://www.simonsingh.com/Rock_Paper_Scissors.html
Optimal strategy is perfectly random play; the winner sounds pretty random.
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