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MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn

2017-11-14

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See more data and check out what we changed on the second day (which caused MENACE to learn a different strategy) in the second video: https://youtu.be/KcmjOtkULi4

Check out Matt Scroggs’s original blog post about MENACE and in the amazing Chalkdust magazine.

http://www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/19

http://chalkdustmagazine.com/tag/menace/

Play against the online version of MENACE:

http://www.mscroggs.co.uk/menace/

This is the original 1961 “Experiments on the mechanization of game-learning” by Donald Michie.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ycsycu0l01g9643/DonaldMichie.pdf?dl=0

Thanks to Katie Steckles for organising our stall at the Manchester Science Festival and Antonio Benitez for giving us the space.

The MENACE crew were:

Alison Clarke, Andrew Taylor, Ash Frankland, David Williams, Katie Steckles, Matthew Scroggs, Paul Taylor, Sam Headleand and Zoe Griffiths

Get your MENACE data here!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f9ukxxvh0pgdui/MENACE-data.zip?dl=0

CORRECTIONS:

None yet. Let me know if you spot anything!

Thanks to my Patreon supporters who made this possible! Here are the random subset I read out during the video:

Ben White

Scott Robinson

Nelson Emerson

Amy Sandland

Neil McGovern

Support my channel and make more videos like this possible!

https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths

Music by Howard Carter

Filming and editing by Trunkman Productions

Audio mastering by Peter Doggart

Design by Simon Wright

MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician

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Nerdy maths toys: http://mathsgear.co.uk/


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