AlphaGo, COVID-19 Contact Tracing and New Data Set

George starts off the show with a review and recommendation to watch AlphaGo: The Movie. A thoughtful and accessible documentary that follows the ground breaking story of Deepmind’s Go engine playing and beating professional players, Fan Hui and Lee Sedol.

Lan brings a news item about the new free access dataset COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). This is a collection of continuously updated research papers on the novel coronavirus Sars-Cov2 that causes the pandemic COVID-19, hosted on semantic scholar of Allen Institue for AI and kaggle, this dataset is intended to mobilize researchers to apply recent advances in natural language processing to generate new insights in support of the fight against this infectious disease.

Kyle shared some thoughts about the paper Beyond R_0: the importance of contact tracing when predicting epidemics.