From hood at panix.com  Wed Mar  3 07:45:25 2021
From: hood at panix.com (Philip Hood)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:45:25 +0000 ()
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] paris.pm tonight Wed 20210303 @ 5:30pm on dcpm
 jitsi
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.2103031540260.8283@panix2.panix.com>


hi all - just a quick note:

  Some of the guys from Paris.pm will be making - basically - a social call 
on dcpm's jitsi later this evening and I wanted to invite any and all to 
pop in and meet them.

  There are links to the blurb text below on http://dc.pm.org, but, in 
particular, the dcpm jit.si channel is:

  https://meet.jit.si/DCPerlMongers

"
2020-03-03: 5:30PM on dcpm's jit.si - A Visit from Paris.pm and "Les Mongueurs 
de Perl"

Jean Forget from Paris.pm, Emmanuel Seyman (the current president of Les 
Mongueurs) and Laurent Rosenfeld - will make some presentation about the "Les 
Mongueurs de Perl" association - on what they do, and how and why it is 
different from a simple Perl Mongers group. Jean Forget will give an 
abbreviated version of his 2018 talk about "Ace of Aces".
"

  Anyway, sorry about the late notice, but, if you are free and you want to 
meet these guys and see what they are about, pop on in!

-ml
pth


From hood at panix.com  Wed Mar  3 18:13:06 2021
From: hood at panix.com (Philip Hood)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 02:13:06 +0000 ()
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] jean forget, paris.pm, ace of aces takeaways ...
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.2103040126020.10198@panix2.panix.com>


hi all, I was asked by someone in philly.pm to write up some takeaways 
regarding some questions asked that we didn't entirely have links for 
during the meeting:

1.
here's a link a wiki about the ace of aces game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Aces_(picture_book_game)

2.
there was a successful kickstarter around 2018 to reprint
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/994700393/ace-of-aces-rotary-series-limited-edition-reprint-0

3.
"fying buffalo" had produced this reprint and their web page is here, 
w/ a telephone number to call around arizona times: 480-945-6917.

http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/

4.
a copy of the pdf from the patent office for the Ace of Aces game is here:
http://dc.pm.org/talks/patent.04378118.pdf

5.
here's a link to a ieee page about various competitions where two or 
more ai "bots" compete against each other in a game, per some rule sets:

https://cis.ieee.org/conferences/competitions

http://gvgai.net/

6.

... and just as a follow up, the ideas developed that it wouldn't be too 
incredibly hard to make a visualization layer to jean's game play - which 
I imagine would just make the entire project much more popular and bring a 
layer of life to it - showing the pages and the moves chosen.  There is an 
obvious question about copyright - but, youtube has many videos showing 
gameplay that seem ok, but - I don't really know how that works.

... and then, if possible, a human should be able to play the bot and 
then, separately, one should be able to create their own bot & upload some 
artifacts somewhere to allow the two "competing" agents should be able to 
play against each other, given rule set and constraints.

... ok, so, I think that was it.

Jean had some slides that he said he'd later send about the "Les Mongueurs 
de Perl" group, which I would also link to on the webpage - and whenever 
he sends those, I will just update http://dc.pm.org page w/out sending out 
some other notice about the update; you can just come back to the page 
looking for the update.

thanks for coming & we should definitely continue the conversation.

-ml
pth