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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
No? No. The reason rock-paper-scissors is not a purely arbitrary game, and the reason that an excellent player will win more often than chance would predict, is that human psychology is not random ...
Absolutely. It happens that for both the rock-paper-scissors robot, they both had human-like arms, but in the Carnegie Mellon study, the robot kind of looked like a cork screw. But we know that we ...
The shapes are “rock” (a fist), “paper” (a flat hand), and “scissors” (a fist with the ... which shape the human hand is making, and delivers the winning shape 100 percent of the ...