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A Hangman Take-Home Humbled me Years Ago. I Came Back and Built a Transformer.

A developer returned to a humbling hangman take-home challenge years later and built a Transformer model that runs in the browser after 16 experiments and 6 failed reinforcement learning attempts.

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Sixteen experiments, six failed RL attempts, and one Transformer that now runs in your browser. Continue reading on Towards AI »

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