by Tom | Mar 15, 2016 | Reading, Tech
More on AlphaGo. Such respect to Sedol for choosing to play the last match against what he views as the stronger incarnation of the machine. It didn’t help, of course. Fan Hui, the 3-time European champion has improved from number 600-ish in the world to be in...
by Tom | Mar 14, 2016 | Personal, Reading, Science, Tech
So much sci-fi coming to earth this last week. AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol and convincingly. It’s important because the game was thought to be too “big” for traditional computer strategies based on simulating playing the game forward a few rounds and...
by Tom | Mar 14, 2016 | Business, Tech
Intriguing thought. I strongly dislike and avoid advertising, but maybe free self-driving transportation is my price? Source: A Global Robotic Transportation System is Almost Here
by Tom | Feb 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
I had never seen a view of opera scheduling across seasons like this. Fascinating how often the ABC+T get performed. My assumption is that ROH and Glyndebourne would be more varied, but that’s just gut feel.
by Tom | Jan 28, 2016 | Reading, Tech
Everyone expected computer domination of Go to be “ten years” away. It looks strongly like it’s nearly with us. A European master was defeated 5-0 and a match up with a world champion match is due in March. Once again, the human player described the...
by Tom | Dec 2, 2015 | Business, Reading, Science
Usable water isn’t scarce, it’s in the wrong buckets. How will technology and trading improvements in bucket transfer affect adjacent industries? Could Enron be a model? Lots to think about here.
by Tom | Dec 1, 2015 | General
Two articles covering different aspects of the fact that policy always has to follow developments in the world and is always rushing to keep up. This often leads to terrible law-making. On privacy,  a postulated axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2015 | General
I’m not sure that’s quite the right recipe to be pushing given the article I’d just read…
by Tom | Oct 6, 2015 | View
Two glorious additions to the canon. Zoetrope cake. Brilliant aKNITomy specimens. Most excellent.
by Tom | Sep 26, 2015 | Personal, View
Thanks Vancouver, you were beautiful and efficient. But clearly I was not butch enough for you. That is some ride down to Seattle. Now let’s hope for an easy border crossing.
