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ad8e

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    The second half of this article is detected as AI by pangram: https://www.pangram.com/history/63fdecd4-f932-4fad-af60-da99...

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    Comment #47450364

    Vibe-coded PVP: https://hex-tic-tac-toe.did.science/

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    Your suspicion is right; it is 100% AI-generated. https://www.pangram.com/history/8b593dcc-6a7d-496f-8c80-a588...

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    Comment #42038388

    Yes. At Caltech, you'd be socially ostracized by your friends if people knew you were cheating, or helping another person cheat.

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    Agree, but I've seen other open-source ML people confirm it. For example: Teknium: Okay and Ive had 4 high-ish level sources tell me they dont plan to release it ever though

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    A quote from discord: "apparently alpha-zero has been replicated in open source as leela-zero, and then leela-zero got a bunch of improvements so it's far ahead of alpha-zero. but …

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    There are a few misunderstandings here. Rational Bézier curves are incidental in this article, and the conclusion is not that they are correct. They were just a convenient curve I …

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    I have used this in some commercial software before (maybe Illustrator?); my experience was not positive. When you move a node, some not-so-close curves start wiggling, and you thi…

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    The ideal dimensionality of the parameter space depends on the jaggedness of the curve. Derivatives are useful when they stay constant over a stretch of time; when derivatives vary…

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    It's a UI problem, not a mathematical problem. No set of curves can represent everything exactly, but they all can get close. The goal is just to make it easy to get close. The com…

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    The source code is visible with Ctrl+U, I didn't minimize anything. The g9 use is pretty neat. It definitely deserves the shout-out I gave it. I just now uploaded a worse C++ deskt…

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    It's not as easy to visualize the tangent magnitude as you are suggesting, because the time parametrization makes the calculation fail - the curve doesn't travel forward at a const…

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