Dr. Anna LatourDevastated to discover that there is only one Trekkie among my students, and he hasn't even watched Voyager.
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brendan (ジャンク品)@bnys Was also devastated to learn that there's only one student who knows the game Hanabi. In a few weeks we will find out how many of them watch Taskmaster (a lot more, based on previous experience).
Simon Vandevelde@SaltFactory okay I’m now rethinking the use of Catan in my lectures 🥲 @bnys
@anna I'm curious to know how you use the board games in your lectures. To do general game playing, or to show example constraint models, or something else?
@SaltFactory mostly to illustrate the assumptions we’re making. The context is a course on algorithms for np-hard problems. We cover heuristic search, constraints & inference, and simulation-based solving. I just finished teaching the first part. Maybe you know dr Demirovic? He’s taking over now and will start teaching the second part tomorrow.
@SaltFactory Anyway: I covered MiniMax with alpha-beta, and MCTS, so I had to talk about things like turns vs simultaneous moves, zero-sum vs general-sum, perfect information, fully observable, deterministic, stochastic etc. In practice we mostly play noughts and crosses 🤷♀️
@anna Sounds like a very fun course to teach! A colleague recently introduced me to ultimate tic-tac-toe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tic-tac-toe), and I've been wanting to write a simple minimax algorithm ever since. 🙃
@SaltFactory Go for it! And make it available on github, so next year I can tell my students to check it out 😇