Prince of Wales arrives

The HMS Price of Wales has arrived in Portsmouth.  It will be interesting to see what happens with this one, my feeling is we will barely ever be able to get enough aircraft on Queen Elisabeth to make it cost effective:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-50445695

Book read: Novacene by James Lovelock

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43706493-novacene?from_search=true&qid=iWcLvYVMMU&rank=1

Book read: Range by David Epstein

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range?from_search=true

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/