[Philadelphia-pm] jean forget, paris.pm, ace of aces takeaways ...

[Philip Hood]

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