Making a browser shogi AI stronger — 99 experiments, 3 wins, everything measured
The shogi AI on my blog was weak. Weak enough that I — an amateur 2-dan — beat it comfortably, and weak enough that it lost every single game to climbing silver
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Spaced Repetition, Flashcards, and Auto-Generated Quizzes: Turning Learning Science into Code
I used to finish a technical article, nod along with every paragraph, and be unable to explain a single claim from it two weeks later. Not roughly unable — comp
A Primer on Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and PyTorch — Background Reading for the Homemade Shogi AI Article
The companion article "My Blog's Shogi AI Was Embarrassingly Weak, So I Had a Fleet of AI Agents Rebuild It in a Day" throws around machine-learning vocabulary
How to pick a stable 5% of users, requests, or conversations without storing assignments
A beginner-friendly explanation of deterministic bucketing: a common pattern behind gradual rollouts, feature flags, A/B tests, and sampling. ## 1. The problem:
