Beating random: What it means to have trained a model

Tic-Tac-Toe the Hard Way

David did it! He trained a machine learning model to play tic-tac-toe! (Well, with lots of help from Yannick.) How did the whole training experience go? How do you tell how training went? How did his model do against a player that makes random tic-tac-toe moves?

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