Highlights of 2017

Aaron delivered this talk at!!Con, which is hands-down our favorite programming conference. Joel Grus's Livecoding Madness - Let's Build a Deep Learning Library was dazzling. N.K. Jemisin completed her Broken Earth trilogy with The Stone Sky, and it was the best sci-fi we read this year. While not directly related to AI, it explores consequences of a society shaped by technology inherited from the past. Autonomous by Annalee Newitz is an interesting look at bio-hacking and robot relationships. Kyle McDonald's twitter account is not just about visualization (e.g., his dispatches from NIPS were fascinating), but we particularly love it when he shares his work looking at data.