mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
After watching the video with yourself and Matt, you commented on teaching it chess are there any PDFs on how to teach, the machine chess. Ie what are the mechanics
Sterling
on /blog/19
               
@Sterling: To make a MENACE to play chess, you'd need to draw every possible position in chess. As I wrote in this blog post, if you had a matchbox for each possible chess position, your pile of matchboxes would be this big:



This number of positions is too big for this method of learning to work for chess, so you'd need a more advanced method...
Matthew
on /blog/19
               

Archive

Show me a random blog post
 2025 

Mar 2025

How to write a crossnumber

Jan 2025

Christmas (2024) is over
Friendly squares
 2024 
▼ show ▼
 2023 
▼ show ▼
 2022 
▼ show ▼
 2021 
▼ show ▼
 2020 
▼ show ▼
 2019 
▼ show ▼
 2018 
▼ show ▼
 2017 
▼ show ▼
 2016 
▼ show ▼
 2015 
▼ show ▼
 2014 
▼ show ▼
 2013 
▼ show ▼
 2012 
▼ show ▼

Tags

squares news crosswords recursion people maths game of life numerical analysis plastic ratio geometry misleading statistics data visualisation standard deviation guest posts bots python a gamut of games speed datasaurus dozen asteroids dragon curves weather station triangles game show probability craft mathsteroids correlation 24 hour maths graph theory stirling numbers pizza cutting finite group live stream golden spiral pythagoras ucl bempp wave scattering tmip dates hannah fry braiding frobel national lottery chess edinburgh polynomials crossnumber harriss spiral matt parker youtube logs dataset video games world cup crossnumbers sorting raspberry pi radio 4 matrix of minors mathslogicbot estimation tennis geogebra graphs royal institution binary logo big internet math-off royal baby propositional calculus php signorini conditions dinosaurs rhombicuboctahedron anscombe's quartet talking maths in public quadrilaterals logic convergence hyperbolic surfaces books fonts christmas card gather town puzzles realhats chebyshev manchester flexagons pac-man chalkdust magazine fence posts draughts javascript databet christmas pi approximation day newcastle weak imposition menace crochet reuleaux polygons nine men's morris sport kings mean palindromes gaussian elimination sobolev spaces matrices numbers manchester science festival mathsjam coins friendly squares oeis bodmas reddit stickers latex errors advent calendar matrix multiplication map projections pascal's triangle hats rugby data trigonometry cross stitch machine learning zines european cup final fantasy determinants arithmetic folding paper inverse matrices regular expressions london probability games golden ratio runge's phenomenon wool curvature the aperiodical noughts and crosses simultaneous equations pi preconditioning martin gardner error bars sound bubble bobble countdown fractals london underground interpolation statistics ternary turtles boundary element methods light hexapawn accuracy exponential growth football gerry anderson inline code programming approximation folding tube maps computational complexity platonic solids phd cambridge finite element method matrix of cofactors go captain scarlet electromagnetic field

Archive

Show me a random blog post
▼ show ▼
© Matthew Scroggs 2012–2025