 Dear Fellow Scholars, this is Two Minute Papers with Kalo Ejolna Ifehir. This is a quick update on our plans with Two Minute Papers. The more I look at our incredibly high quality comments sections on YouTube or the community efforts that started out on our subreddit, the more I get the feeling that we should strive to create a community platform around the series. A platform for people who wish to learn, exchange ideas, collaborate and help each other. For instance, The Two Minute Papers Data Project has recently started. The initial idea is that there would be a public crowdsource database with episode-related metadata that anyone can add information to. This would be useful for several reasons. We can, for instance, include implementation links for each of the papers for the ones that have source code either from the authors or some independent implementations from the community. We can also include keywords on the topic of the episode, such as machine learning, recurrent neural networks, class simulations for an easy way to search for a topic of interest. If we are interested in any of these, we can just easily search for a keyword and immediately know what episode it was referenced in. The very same could be done with some of the technical words used in the series, such as metropolis sampling, backpropagation and overfitting. This way, we could maybe build an intuitive technical dictionary with definitions and links pointing to the appropriate episodes where they were explained. I think that would be the ultimate learning resource and having such a dictionary would be super useful. I was playing with the thought of having this for quite a while now. So this Data Project has just started out on The Two Minute Papers subreddit, but it can only happen with the help of the community. And this means you. If you are interested in helping, please drop by and leave us a note. I've put the link in the description box. Looking forward to seeing you there. It seems that there is interest in doing such collaborations and experiments together between you fellow scholars. Imagine how cool it would be to see students and researchers forming an open and helpful community brainstorming, running the implementations and sharing their ideas and findings with each other. Who knows, maybe one day a science paper will be written as a result of such endeavors. Please let us know in the comments section what you think about these things. Would you participate in such an endeavor? As always, we love reading your awesome feedback. Also in the meantime, a huge thank you for the following fellow scholars who translated our episodes to several languages. If you wish to contribute to, click the cogwheel button in any video on the lower right, click subtitles slash cc, then add subtitles slash cc. I am trying my very best to credit every contributor. If I have forgotten anyone that's not intended, please let me know and I'll fix it. Meanwhile on Patreon, we are currently oscillating around our current milestone. Reaching this one means that all of our software and hardware costs are covered, which is quite amazing. Because creating YouTube videos with high information density and short duration is the very definition of financial suicide, it's very helpful for us to have such a safety net with Patreon. Also, there was an episode not so long ago about the no-two-minute papers machine which was bought solely from your support and I'm still stunned by this. I tried to explain this to close members of the family that we were able to buy this new machine with the support of complete strangers from the internet whom I've never met. They said that this is clearly impossible. Apparently, it's not impossible and so many kind people are watching the series. Really, thank you so much. 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It is really incredible to see how the series has grown and how many of you fellow scholars are interested in research and the inventions of the future. Let's continue our journey of science together. In the meantime, Google DeepMind and Blizzard has announced a joint effort to make it possible for computer programs to play Starcraft 2, a famous real-time strategy game from the start of 2017. Whoa! There was a question about the first thing I will do when this project takes off. Well of course, I take one week of vacation and write an AI that can play against itself and watch with tremendous enjoyment as they beat the living hell out of each other and other real players. If I heard it correctly, in one of the upcoming championships, computer algorithms will also be allowed to play and who knows maybe defeat the reigning player champions, you know, like in chess and go. We are living amazing times indeed, I am counting the days, super excited. Thanks for watching and for your generous support and I'll see you next time.