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let's not forget the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_Crosses_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and

• CamperBob2 2y ago
  That's immensely more interesting than a program that plays 20 Questions. I'm amazed I've never heard of it!
  • mysterydip 2y ago
    chapter 8 of this book goes into detail and how to run your own. fascinating stuff! https://ia904503.us.archive.org/13/items/gardner006/gardner004.pdf https://ia904503.us.archive.org/13/items/gardner006/gardner0...
    • YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
      And a good writeup by Rodney Brooks: http://rodneybrooks.com/forai-machine-learning-explained/ http://rodneybrooks.com/forai-machine-learning-explained/ (Full disclosure: Donald Michie, inventor of MENACE and RL was my grand-advisor :beams with pride:).
• tdeck 2y ago
  I read about this idea and actually built a variant in college for the Washington University ACM (our CS student club). We ran a demonstration at one of the engineering school events and ended up refilling the matchboxes multiple times that day - it was a hit! If I recall, there is a way to significantly reduce the number of matchboxes needed by taking advantage of mirrored board conditions. Somewhere I have a Perl script that generated HTML for all the matchbox covers and possible next states.