I really want to know why restaurants keep thinking this is a good alternative. I've never had one that wasn't just a mess to eat, and it's weirdly common to have people think it contains a significant amount of protein. However, I'm very happy with most veg patties, and would love halloumi as an option over Beyond any day.
Many non-vegetarian restaurants don't seem to care about the vegetarian options, and just offer almost default options. It's probably down to the attitude of the chef - similarly to how you can sometimes tell whether the chef is a 'sweet' lover or not, by the relative quality of the main courses vs. the desserts.
I first noticed this years ago when eating out with a (my first?) vegetarian friend in a variety of (omnivorous) restaurants and gastropubs. The number of times he'd have to choose the goats' cheese tart became a running joke.
I think if the AI opponent plays their X/O directly on their turn, they have to be dumb enough to not make it too hard (even a slightly smart bot will probably force a tie most of the time, you might not be able to ever miss a tile), and that doesn't feel like it adds much fun.
Taking turns guessing could be interesting though. I wonder how the game theory of guessing works out there.
I taught an intro course last semester. It was intended for non-CS majors, but it ended up with one module having all CS majors after all. They were very pessimistic about their job opportunities at graduation.
I explained that the fundamentals are still very much necessary for now, even if you end up only reviewing AI code. Honestly, computational thinking is as important as ever, although how persuasive I was about this is up for debate.
We used some tools AI models just aren't good at (visual languages are not a strength of language models, and I explained that they couldn't help from day one), but it meant some weaker students still tried to use AI and were confidently told incorrect instructions. They often ended up stuck because the newest group we've gotten is very adverse to office hours when ChatGPT exists (out of ~75 students, only one ever showed up, although I did meet with many right after class).
I'm very concerned for these students, using AI as a crutch was definitely not helping them succeed, but the ability to get easy answers (even if totally wrong) is too appealing. In the classroom they seemed interested, but when they get to a chatbot, they don't want to put it in the "learning" mode, they want to be done with the assignment, and they aren't taught enough "AI literacy" to know to think critically about the outputs or their use of it in general.
I like it, but I think it could be more interesting if the tiles interact more with each other, e.g. if you finish a tile (right or wrong) it reveals a letter (or to not be as strong, maybe it reveals a non-letter?) in another unsolved tile. It would make it a little easier, but it feels more interesting to me.
I'd also like to see the result at the end have a number on each square for how many guesses it took (yeah, the copied emoji version can't have that AND be a green square, but maybe numbers would work instead?).
A long time ago they had the games that came with a "Pokéwalker", which was a pedometer that acted as a sort of mini-game, but that's the closest they got to a mainstream game where you have to get off the couch. It almost meets your specification (well, did, I'm sure the internet part is offline so you're not connected anymore), but it's obviously not exactly what you meant.
And worse, it's not even consistent, they show different amounts of trailers based on the movie/showing! If you show up 20 minutes late, you might miss the start for some movies and yet still have another 15 minutes of trailers for others.
> The Gallica scans are linked in the wikipedia article. Each of those chapters has hundreds of pages.
I went through a bit of it and saw no instance of the symbol. If it's in there, would you mind saying which chapter and which page? Or some hint about what context people could find it in? The maps I saw (maps were pretty easy to find, too, since most of the page numbers for them are "NP") didn't seem to use this symbol.
And also one where animal agriculture is heavily subsidized.
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