Woodford downfall

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50094982

Film: Ad Astra directed by James Gray

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2935510/

Royal Navy size

Good news article about the strength of the Royal Navy - although hardly a state secret what has happened.

https://news.sky.com/story/size-of-royal-navys-warship-fleet-is-pathetic-says-chairman-of-defence-select-committee-11771371

Poker AI

Interesting Alpha zero like approach to playing poker:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/facebook-ai-pluribus-defeats-top-poker-professionals-in-6-player-texas-holdem/

Reporting on the original paper in Science:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/07/10/science.aay2400

The original Alpha zero article:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/move-over-alphago-alphazero-taught-itself-to-play-three-different-games/

Book read: Chernobyl The history of a nuclear catastrophy by Serhii Plokhy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204894-chernobyl

Paul Darrow Dies

A sad day, a true great of low budget 70s sci-fi:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48501099

Book read: The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34757960-the-shortest-history-of-germany