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MENACE's Maiden Tournament against Mitchie (Reinforcement Learning)

So this guy really wants to get good at tictactoe. But aw shucks! It's the 60s!!! What will he ever do?? He doesn't have a computer to study skills from!!

Well, he's actually named Donald Mitchie,and he's pretty smart. You can tell he's smart because he calls tictactoe "Noughts and Crosses". He comes up with a method, and fills matchboxes with beads. Each bead tells him where to put a mark in tictactoe, and he plays against himself. Everytime a bead causes him to lose a game, he removes the bad bead. Everytime a bead leads to a victory, he adds an extra of the good bead.

Through trial and error, he makes a matchbox full of POWERFUL BEADS!! Even when he chooses beads by random, the beads always win.

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Legendary Youtube Video

Its really good