Celebrating the luminous, quiet and noisy joys of the season, Quentin Tarantino has phasers set to kill for Captain Picard, and AlphaZero ushers in a new era of mostly fear for Ped and Tom as they ponder the perils of the new AI. Happy Holidays, humans!

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Yay, snow; nay, leaf blowers [00:27]

Tarantino + Trek: A match made in … ? [14:00]

AlphaZero and the new AI [26:49]

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)