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Re:“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more ... by pinkwah on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:32AM (#50004104)
Byte-matching has been a side-effect of gaining an understanding of how the software works. With this you are skipping the understanding and you will not get people like Kaze Emanuar on YouTube who have dedicated a lot of time to building upon this understanding to create something better.

I don't think it's motivating to solve a black box by having AI generate another black box if what you want is to understand how the thing worked.

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Re:“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more ... by diath on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:43AM (#50006402)
> Byte-matching has been a side-effect of gaining an understanding of how the software works.

No? Decomp sources are often full of comments that claim that there's no clear reason as to why something is done a certain way or straight up full of question marks. Byte matching often is a result of bruteforcing a solution rather than understanding the original idea behind the code.

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