MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn

See more data and check out what we changed on the second day (which caused MENACE to learn a different strategy) in the second video: Check out Matt Scroggs’s original blog post about MENACE and in the amazing Chalkdust magazine. Play against the online version of MENACE: This is the original 1961 “Experiments on the mechanization of game-learning” by Donald Michie. Thanks to Katie Steckles for organising our stall at the Manchester Science Festival and Antonio Benitez for giving us the space. The MENACE crew were: Alison Clarke, Andrew Taylor, Ash Frankland, David Williams, Katie Steckles, Matthew Scroggs, Paul Taylor, Sam Headleand and Zoe Griffiths Get your MENACE data here! CORRECTIONS: None yet. Let me know if you spot anything! Thanks to my Patreon supporters who made this possible! Here are the random subset I read out during the video: Ben White Scott Robinson Nelson Emerson Amy Sandland Neil McGovern Support my channel and make more videos like this possible! Music by Howard Carter Filming and editing by Trunkman Productions Audio mastering by Peter Doggart Design by Simon Wright MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: Maths book: Nerdy maths toys: