How should David represent the data needed to train his machine learning system? What does a tic-tac-toe board “look” like to ML? Should he train it on games or on individual boards? How does this decision affect how and how well the machine will learn to play? Plus, an intro to reinforcement learning, the approach Yannick will be taking.

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