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Eric Jang on X: "For the last few months I've been working on a from-scratch implementation of AlphaGo, a 2016 AI breakthrough that inspired me to get into deep learning. My casual understanding of AlphaGo was "search-augmented deep neural networks trained with self-play", but I wanted to go" / X

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For the last few months I've been working on a from-scratch implementation of AlphaGo, a 2016 AI breakthrough that inspired me to get into deep learning. My casual understanding of AlphaGo was "search-augmented deep neural networks trained with self-play", but I wanted to go

For the last few months I've been working on a from-scratch implementation of AlphaGo, a 2016 AI breakthrough that inspired me to get into deep learning. My casual understanding of AlphaGo was "search-augmented deep neural networks trained with self-play", but I wanted to go deeper and understand it by creating it. Frontier deep learning research has always been expensive, but any given capability gets cheaper very quickly. In 2026, you no longer need DeepMind's resources to train a strong Go AI - you can vibe code all of it yourself for just a few thousand dollars of rented compute. It…

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