"Software & The Game of Go" by David Nolen (Strange Loop 2023)

Familiarity with the ancient game of Go (Weiqi/Baduk) has noticeably increased outside of Korean, Japan and China thanks to the historic match between Lee Sedol and DeepMind’s AlphaGo in 2016. However, this talk isn’t about contemporary machine learning techniques (though we may touch upon those topics), rather we explore the congruences between the act of writing software and learning how to play this beautiful game. As Yu Ji writes in the preface to the Xuanxuan Qijing published in mid-1300s (you read that right):

/”There is nothing it [Go] does not encompass in the rise and fall of the Way of the World, and in the waxing and waning of Man’s affairs./”

David Nolen
Vouch
@swannodette

David Nolen maintains ClojureScript. He works at Vouch. He lives in New York City.

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Recorded Sept 21, 2023 at Strange Loop 2023 in St. Louis, MO.
https://thestrangeloop.com

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