Tic-Tac-Toe the Hard Way
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Lessons learned
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What have we learned about machine learning and the human decisions that shape it? And is machine learning perhaps changing our minds about how the wo...
Head to Head: The Even Bigger ML Smackdown!
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yannick and David’s systems play against each other in 500 games. Who’s going to win? And what can we learn about how the ML may be working by thi...
Enter tic-tac-two
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David’s variant of tic-tac-toe that we’re calling tic-tac-two is only slightly different but turns out to be far more complex. This requires rethi...
Head to Head: the Big ML Smackdown!
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David and Yannick’s tic-tac-toe ML agents face-off against each other in tic-tac-toe!See the agents play each other!For more information about the s...
Give that model a treat! : Reinforcement learning explained
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Switching gears, we focus on how Yannick’s been training his model using reinforcement learning. He explains the differences from David’s superv...
Beating random: What it means to have trained a model
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David did it! He trained a machine learning model to play tic-tac-toe! (Well, with lots of help from Yannick.) How did the whole training experience g...
From tic-tac-toe moves to ML model
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Once we have the data we need—thousands of sample games--how do we turn it into something the ML can train itself on? That means understanding how t...
What does a tic-tac-toe board look like to machine learning?
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should David represent the data needed to train his machine learning system? What does a tic-tac-toe board “look” like to ML? Should he train ...
Howdy, and the myth of “pouring in data”
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the podcast! We’re Yannick and David, a software engineer and a non-technical writer. Over the next 9 episodes we’re going to use two d...
Introducing Tic-Tac-Toe the Hard Way
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing the podcast where a writer and a software engineer explore the human choices that shape machine learning systems by building competing tic...