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# temporal difference learning in backgammon
cognitive science,
Gerald Tesauro
This article presents a game-learning program called TD-Gammon. TD-Gammon is a neural network that trains itself to be an evaluation function for the game of backgammon by playing against itself and learning from the outcome. Although TD-Gammon has greatly surpassed all previous computer programs in its ability to play backgammon, that was not why it was developed. Rather, its purpose was to explore some exciting new ideas and approaches to traditional problems in the field of reinforcement learning.
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# divination and recreation in ancient near eastern board games
jeux et divination,
pascal Romain
Here is an article, I wrote in 1999 after a conference hold in Florence for the Board games in Academia association.
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# Board Games and Fortunetelling : a Case from Antiquity
jeux et divination,
irving Finkel
Conservateur assistant du British Museum, spécialiste de l'écriture cunéiforme au département des antiquités orientales, Irving Finkel publie, dans Board games studies, une étude sur une tablette cunéiforme permettant de formuler de nouvelles hypothèses sur les liens entre jeux de plateau et divination.
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# Les représentations des jeux de pions dans le Proche-Orient ancien et leur signification
jeux et représentation,
pascal Romain
This is the research project I wrote a year ago for my fifth year university course.
It deals with the representation used to decorate board games in various civilisations like Egypt, Mesopotamy or Greece.
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# definitions of playing and its relationship to the sacred behaviours in societies
jeux et sacré,
émile Benvéniste
L'article reprend la définition donnée par Huizinga dans son ouvrage fondateur sur la place du jeu dans la société, définie comme "une action libre, exécutée "comme si" et sentie comme située hors de la vie courante, mais qui cependant peut absorber complètement le joueur sans qu'il trouve en elle aucun intérêt ou en obtienne aucun profit" (Homo Ludens, 1958).
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# science et croyance dans les jeux du Proche-Orient ancien
jeux et science,
pascal Romain
This article is the last I wrote. It will be published in January
in Board Games Studies n°3 @ . It deals with the connections seen in the Ancient
Near Eastern world between science and the practice of the very popular board
games of that time. (the article in in french, sorry...)
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