[mturk]

I was listening to the audiobook of "The Future" by Naomi Alderman, and it spent a fair bit of time talking about MENACE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_... which I had not heard of before.

Inspired by this I've spent some time thinking about how to encode games of battleship, and honestly it's genuinely a fun problem to explore. (I'm not going to share any of my ideas because I've deliberately not looked into the literature on this and I'm sure it's well-explored.)