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eyerowon ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer

As a long-time Go player and ML guy who even built his own (albeit shitty) Go AI in college, I'm a bit biased, but watching the AlphaGo-Lee Sedol match really felt like watching our generation's moon landing.

If y'all haven't already, there's a new AlphaGo documentary made by DeepMind on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y. Brought tears to my eyes. Both a triumph for humanity in building an unbelievable machine like this, and a loss for humanity in that the infinite mystery of Go will be diminished, and again a triumph for humanity in Lee Sedol's brilliant win in Game 4...

eyerowon Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author

The scholars should try this on the Book of Mormon.

eyerowon Why I Left Academic Philosophy

And the fact that you can spend 2 years writing a dissertation that 3 people will read and maybe fewer will understand or connect with.

eyerowon AssemblyScript: A Subset of TypeScript That Compiles to WebAssembly

You should reconsider the name "AssemblyScript" if you want it to catch on.