TheCog

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by TheCog 5mo ago
I wrote a speculative little story about the recent going ons at Anthropic and the launch of Mythos.
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by TheCog 6mo ago
I wrote a... slightly substantial writeup: https://hallofdreams.org/posts/agents-and-ants/
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Agents and Ants Antagonists in Assembly – The Swarm Challenge(hallofdreams.org)
2 points by TheCog 6mo ago|2 comments
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by TheCog 6mo ago
A retrospective on the SWARM challenge originally posted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270807 . It's very long, and goes into topics from design challenge and what being in the moment of a chal
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I Fixed My Coworker's Alignment Problem(hallofdreams.org)
2 points by TheCog 9mo ago|0 comments
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The x86 Inferno – A Descent into Advent of Code(hallofdreams.org)
1 points by TheCog 9mo ago|1 comments
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by TheCog 9mo ago
I thought I should solve Advent of Code in assembly. This proved to be a... poor choice, for a variety of reasons. A retrospective on registers and having to hand roll everything.
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PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory(hallofdreams.org)
264 points by TheCog 2y ago|154 comments
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by TheCog 2y ago
The main impetus was trying to show that you could do AlphaZero on a regular computer. It didn't pan out that way.
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by TheCog 2y ago
> It's also fascinating to me that the author attempted to train an ML model to play the game. My initial thought was that an exhaustive search was the only way to approach this (because it's perhaps the only way to arrive at a
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by TheCog 2y ago
From Dave: Short answer: SAT solvers are hard. Long answer: I actually discussed it with Tim once, long after part 2 of our blog post and after the whole thing settled down. Tim was making an SAT solver based on a post about a homemade Sud
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by TheCog 2y ago
Passing this on from Dave, since he doesn't have a HN account: He recommends trying NNUE on a CPU: https://www.chessprogramming.org/NNUE Mostly because he hasn't seen anyone try it on the personal computer scale a
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by TheCog 2y ago
I think one of the general takeaways about ML is that barring a few experts, its really challenging to reason about your system. Like, yes, you might expect that a convolutional layer will behave in a specific way under ideal conditions,
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Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022)(hallofdreams.org)
285 points by TheCog 2y ago|53 comments
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Losing the World Record in Hatetris (2023)(hallofdreams.org)
9 points by TheCog 3y ago|1 comments
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Hatetris world record broken by 61 points(twitter.com)
2 points by TheCog 4y ago|0 comments
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Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022)(hallofdreams.org)
4 points by TheCog 4y ago|0 comments
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Documentation is terrible(medium.com)
3 points by TheCog 8y ago|1 comments
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Building a Reddit Visualizer from scratch(medium.com)
2 points by TheCog 10y ago|0 comments
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Reddit API: The Gateway to Data(musingsoncode.blogspot.com)
2 points by TheCog 10y ago|0 comments