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Saturday 8th December, 2018 #

  • A Choreographer's Creative Process in Real Time
  • Brexit vote - What could happen next? 6 possible scenarios (Brexit is so complicated even the russian election hackers are too baffled to try and influence the outcome)
  • Deviate Podcast - An outsider’s inside history of the Beat Generation, as told by Charles Plymell
  • Scientists teach Google AlphaZero AI the basic rules of chess, shogi and go, a few hours later it had beaten the AI world-champions in each category (How can people not be worried that AI is going to pawn human brains?)
  • Presidency Without Humor - Another relatively well painted picture in the only style the NYT knows how to paint (they would probably say I was directing my comment at someone else, but what if I really wasn’t?)
  • Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs, Prisoners and Hostages
  • Microsoft adds a set of AI-assisted development capabilities to it’s popular VSCode IDE for TypeScript/JavaScript (probably nothing to worry about, Clippy was a long time ago)
  • Europe should be wary of Huawei, says EU Commision Vice President Andrus Ansip
  • Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign (worth reading)
  • Leave Gmail in 10 steps
  • Japan Is Giving Away Abandoned Houses for Free
  • Microsoft wants to stop AI's 'race to the bottom'
  • Rather than figure out Brexit MPs are plotting and scheming to ensure they still have jobs after the vote