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In an attempt to learn more about transformers, I did NOT write a game of snake

I recently had a lot of fun with a little bit of reinforcement learning and writing a small transformer from scratch to play a representation of the classic snake game. Feel free to read about it on my blog, or skip the boring parts and play with the interactive elements!

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  1. 2026-10-16 08:53 · r/learnmachinelearning
    In an attempt to learn more about transformers, I did NOT write a game of snake

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