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: 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: 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