Gian-Carlo Pascutto
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Gian-Carlo Pascutto
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I used to be an open-source developer like you, but then I took a promotion to the knee and now I just whine on the internet. Certified by Reddit to have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to computer chess.
I know what you mean, but you'll probably find Linux (aarch64) is surprisingly real, depending on what the application is exactly.
November 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I am @gcp on github. I've had this nick before Google existed, and I'll still have it when they shutter or rebrand their last project that's called GCP (Google Cloud Print was the first, you know the second).

Meanwhile, getting at-ed in random issues provides for some occasional comic relief.
September 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“Please remember this key instruction. Do not hallucinate.”

😱
August 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It takes me about a month to train a new network on the "backup machine" described in the article. Makes experiments very costly.

You can train smaller ones and pray the improvements scale up too.
August 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
There's a surprising dearth of engines modeled after the AlphaZero paradigm (only Leela Zero, Stoofvlees II, Scorpio and Ceres) despite there surely being orders of magnitude on the table in network architecture and MCTS improvements.

Not entirely sure why? Cost and time cost of training networks?
August 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Seems like a close re-implementation of the Stockfish NNUE design.

Not particularly interesting from my perspective. There's quite a few of them, all slightly weaker than the original. I like designs that are intended to leapfrog - but people don't make videos about those until after they succeed 😉
August 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The fact that GPT-5 seems to very scale well with thinking tokens is extremely significant in this aspect.
August 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I can email copies to interested folks (and publish the drafts, which I'll probably do at some time after cleaning it up).
August 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The problem is you used curl|sh, while the official, documented way is bash -c wget.

I'm not kidding:
bash -c "$(wget -O - apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh) "
August 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"Looking completely different across three platforms" sounds like the expected result when emulating a platform-native look?
June 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I have a story to tell here about distros disabling User Namespaces and what Chrome/Chromium's workaround for that problem is...
June 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm often using ChatGPT to do the exact opposite because I have a tendency to blabber on when writing.
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This specific one requires users to have installed a local application.

I assume the technique didn't work on iOS because it's much more restrictive about keeping local ports open.
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Is that really any different from fonts with extensive manual hinting though.
May 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
That is a pretty funny self-own, considering the massive developer time and expertise that went into the C version.
May 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM