27 January 2016

Probably not JavaScript

Geoff Brumfiel reports: an AI application called AlphaGo has mastered the game of go to the point of defeating a European champion. I can't resist the obvious question: Since it's a Google project, what language is AlphaGo written in?

24 January 2016

18 January 2016

Sherborn

Using regular expressions to crack the inconsistencies of a century-old bibliography and bring an important compendium of zoological taxonomy into the semantic web: Suzanne C. Pilsk et al., "Unlocking Index Animalium: From paper slips to bytes and bits."