Shyamgopal Karthik
@shyamgopal.bsky.social
PhD at Tübingen. Working on post-training diffusion and multimodal models. Previous research interns at Snapchat and Naver Labs.
https://sgk98.github.io/
https://sgk98.github.io/
Very nice! Am I going crazy or do you use "Pick", "Pick Score", "PickScore", and "PickAScore" to refer to the same reward (i.e github.com/yuvalkirstain/PickScore)?
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Very nice! Am I going crazy or do you use "Pick", "Pick Score", "PickScore", and "PickAScore" to refer to the same reward (i.e github.com/yuvalkirstain/PickScore)?
Oh yes, nobody tells you in game that there's a tactic in this position. And you need to calculate a sacrifice fully in a game, and not play one move at a time. So it's not too hard to overfit, but doing online tactics well is a necessary but not sufficient condition to play chess well.
April 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Oh yes, nobody tells you in game that there's a tactic in this position. And you need to calculate a sacrifice fully in a game, and not play one move at a time. So it's not too hard to overfit, but doing online tactics well is a necessary but not sufficient condition to play chess well.
Maybe if people tried to overfit to online tactics ratings, sure. But having good calculation skills and awareness of tactical patterns is essential to being a good chess player, while "leetcode" is not essential to being a good programmer?
April 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Maybe if people tried to overfit to online tactics ratings, sure. But having good calculation skills and awareness of tactical patterns is essential to being a good chess player, while "leetcode" is not essential to being a good programmer?