> First, the author of the article has no professional credibility in either chess or machine learning. He's a professor of math and a writer. No disrespect to either math or writing, I love and value both very highly, but they have very little to do with chess and machine learning per se.
Well, do you accept Garry Kasparov qualified to comment on this?
"I admit that I was pleased to see that AlphaZero had a dynamic, open style like my own."
"Alpha-Zero is surpassing us in a profound and useful way, a model that may be duplicated on any other task or field where virtual knowledge can be generated."
Can you elaborate? – A coworker is recommending that book to me. I don't want to waste my time reading it if it's really bad. I am mostly into hard science fiction.
The plot is far-fetched, but that's not the problem.
It's the writing style - it feels like a cheap thriller written for teens. Too many characters and cheap tricks to 'educate' the reader about technical mumbo-jumbo.
Of course, this is my very subjective opinion. But having read enough PKD and Gaiman, my expectations are different than may be majority of the readers.
Apple also released a patch which showed "4G" symbol in status bar for AT&T when on HSxPA signal. In europe and everywhere else, the phone kept showing 3G as other phones.
True, and you are not obliged to give pass to Apple either.