Transformer on César Del Solar, Maker of Things https://www.cesardelsolar.com/tags/transformer/ Recent content in Transformer on César Del Solar, Maker of Things Hugo en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:29:44 -0400 From 52% to 58%: A Transformer Static Evaluator That Plays Like a 2-Ply Sim https://www.cesardelsolar.com/posts/2026-10-18-transformer-scrabble/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.cesardelsolar.com/posts/2026-10-18-transformer-scrabble/ Sixteen months ago my CNN beat HastyBot 51.7% of the time. The new transformer value net, macondo-tf, wins 57.65% over 100,000 game pairs, level with a 2-ply Monte Carlo simulation while thinking more than a thousand times faster. Here’s everything we tried to get there, including the long list of things that didn’t work.