Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine
2 months ago
- #randomness
- #game
- #cryptography
- Game involves Man and Machine predicting 'Zero' or 'One'.
- Man aims to be random; Machine predicts or passes.
- Correct Machine predictions earn points; incorrect ones benefit Man.
- Machine often outperforms Man after several moves.
- Reset game with 'Reset' button or 'Space' key.
- Origin attributed to John von Neumann or Stanislaw Ulam.
- Game educates on the folly of generating random numbers manually for cryptography.