#go

AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/27/1133624/ai-is-rewiring-how-the-worlds-best-go-players-think/ #ai #go #games #training

I just replaced `map` with a slice of KV pairs in #Go. Not only it's much less memory for less than 8 items, it's also much faster access, despite theoretical O(n).

Moreover, keys are not sorted in that slice. It turns out binary search is less efficient because less than/greater than comparison of strings is way more expensive than equality check