- The TLS’s Books of the Year Predictably cosmopolitan, often abstruse and quirky. Lots of serious books I should read but probably won’t. Sigh.
- Go Master Lee Sedol says he quits because he’s unable to defeat AI Go machines Sensible chap.
- What is a “narrative violation”? No, I didn’t know eIther. Turns out, it’s just a way to challenge conventional wisdom. But apparently it is the obsession du jour in Silicon Valley at the moment. It’s the kind of thing that gives superficiality a bad name.
- Why you shouldn’t spend too much time thinking about 5G Horse sense from Benedict Evans.