> Many boldly and confidently predicted we wouldn't see a computer beat the Go world champion in our lifetimes.

Sadly as I write this my uncle and personal hero who spent 17 years of his life working towards a Ph.D. on abstraction hierarchies for use in Go artificial intelligence, has been moved into hospice care. I'm just glad that in the few days that are left he has a chance to see this happen, even if it is not the good old-fashioned approach he took.

[1] He recently started rewriting the continuation of this research in golang, available on Github: https://github.com/Ken1JF/ah