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David Pattinson

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David Pattinson @davipatti.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Chess engine implemented as 84688 regexes: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025...

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Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

I wrote a (list of) regular expressions that will play a (not very good) chess game by running a 2-ply minimax search.

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David Pattinson @davipatti.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

TIL about psub. E.g. a one liner to sort the contents of two files and diff them: > diff (sort a.txt | psub) (sort b.txt | psub) 🤯

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