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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by weinzierl on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:52AM (#50351975)
I find the general topic of purely algorithmic progress super interesting.

I just ran Andrej Karpathy's Tiny Stories model on a tiny ESP32. In principle we could probably have done this in the 80's and it would have been so amazing.

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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by peterfirefly on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:35AM (#50352507)
The lesson isn't always so bitter, after all.
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