Chalkdust will bring MENACE (the Machine-Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine) to the Festival. MENACE is an example of analogue machine learning, and over the course of the festival it will learn to play noughts and crosses against festival attendees.

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Chalkdust is a place for five-minute articles over coffee, and fiendishly hard puzzles that will entertain you for a week. It’s a place for interviews with interesting people around our field, and getting relationship advice from dead mathematicians. Find out more.