https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/RoyG2GwYAwoka47Ht/true-stories-of-algorithmic-improvement
True Stories of Algorithmic Improvement
johnswentworth
29 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC
“Algorithms beating compute is the sort of thing I expect by default, on a gut level. The point of this post is to tell a few of the stories which underlie that intuition, aimed especially toward people who don’t have much first-hand experience with software engineering, ML, or simulation.”