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TIL that Rust has a (i) icon that shows relevant traits that a type implements. This is useful to understand that e.g. .iter() on a Vec<T> iterates with &T. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.iter It looks like one of my bug reports was mentioned, so I'm delighted but wish I'd noticed earlier!

I'm fascinated to learn that people are discovering weaknesses in state-of-the-art bots for playing Go, such that a novice player can reliably win: https://goattack.far.ai/human-evaluation This suggests that self-play doesn't always generalise: it's not sufficient to beat earlier versions.

Today I learnt that Scheme (1975) is actually older than Common Lisp (1984)! I'd assumed that Scheme designs were a response to CL. Many of the CL features were created earlier, in fairness. CL was standardising the feature set.