> On May 9, 2020 at 10:41 AM Tony Duell via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk<[email protected]> > wrote:>> > From: Dwight Kelvey> > There was a fellow that made a relay logic > that could play tic tac toe> What's with these new-fangled devices using > _electricity_ anyway? :-)> In high school, my math teacher (I think it was) > used a couple of matchboxesand some beads to create a TTT device; he > 'programmed' it by playing againstit, and when the device lost a game, he > pulled out the bead that indicatedthe device's previous move, so it could > never make that losing move again.Pretty impressive, I thought...I am pretty > sure that was in one of Martin Gardner's columns(Mathematical Games) in > Scientific American, and is reprinted in oneof his books. Of course he might > have got it from your teacher ratherthan vice versa.
MENACE? 1960? https://opendatascience.com/menace-donald-michie-tic-tac-toe-machine-learning/ Will
