In Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibria, the amount of unpredictability to use in alpha-beta-like competition games to maximize expected gains assuming a similarly motivated adversary.
In many cases these strategies are dominated by a fully deterministic strategy, or with the mixed-strategy that is highly uneven in its distribution: favoring that one action be taken almost all of the time.
The title taken on face value is flatly wrong but as headlines go it's trying to be cute and attention grabbing. Strategic surprise is a fundamental tool to strategy, but should never be assumed to just work without explicit motivating reasons (be they heuristic or calculated).
In many cases these strategies are dominated by a fully deterministic strategy, or with the mixed-strategy that is highly uneven in its distribution: favoring that one action be taken almost all of the time.
The title taken on face value is flatly wrong but as headlines go it's trying to be cute and attention grabbing. Strategic surprise is a fundamental tool to strategy, but should never be assumed to just work without explicit motivating reasons (be they heuristic or calculated).