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.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN A PETITION FOR SMART BEAD RIGHTSWriting means smart....right? According to Socrates, a famous greek philosopher, writing is actually stupid! Ok, that may be an overexaggeration, he was critical of writing. Here's his argument
"those who think they can leave written instructions for an art, as well as those who accept them, thinking that writing can yield results that are clear or certain, must be quite naive and truly ignorant of [Thamos’] prophetic judgment: otherwise, how could they possibly think that words that have been written down can do more than remind those who already know what the writing is about?"
If youve read this far, you may now realize that I like to spread misinformation, and I have misled you! Socrates was critical of writing, yes, but using it as a reference. This relates to much of learning today, especially with artificial intelligence!! If you have a reference telling you exactly what to do, youre less likely to understand what youre doing as much if you did the process by memory. My dad mentioned this a lot with coding. SO heres my takeaway. Learn, do stuff, and mess up, and play with it! it good for ya babe