Average branching factor (move options) in chess is 35. In Go, it's 250. Some days I wake up and think: did we really solve Go with a learning-based approach or was it all just a dream? What David Silver and @DeepMind achieved with AlphaGo & AlphaZero is still magical to me.
#otd in 1985 one of the most influential programming textbooks was published -- MIT’s “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”.
You can read it for free here: https://t.co/b2L31QOnim
(photo by Genry Gabriev)