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I'm intrigued by Twitter's new features to control who responds to tweets, but I worry it would create a bunch of moderation work. For better or worse, 'anyone can respond' is a straightforward model.

I'm really intrigued by Next, a scriptable browser. https://next.atlas.engineer/ There's definitely interest in alternative browsers designs, e.g. Conkeror and vimium. The neat design of Next is that it's deliberately abstracting the underlying engine, giving future flexibility.

I'm intrigued to learn that some Stockfish developers think that it would beat AlphaZero under conventional rules for chess engine competitions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero#Reactions_and_criticisms Even if that's fair, AlphaZero is still a very impressive demonstration of their ML approach.