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Exploring classic arcade games with local AI and automated search. Follow the videos, the breakthroughs and what we learn along the way.
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PengoBest published lab score ✓ Verified
Privileged trajectory search · 0 model calls
Whole declared trace/input, two NEW native resets + result-bound pixel/round gates; third whole recording
PleiadsBest published lab score ✓ Verified
Automated policy search · 0 model calls
Exact replay · 2,239/2,239 sampled frames matched
From the notebook
216,480 alive / 216,480 at tape end; four lives remain, zero detected deaths. 36 chronological rounds completed; ACT 5 of the third cycle remains unfinished with one objective.
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Independent native reset verification passes the100k numerical trajectory milestone.
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Four completed ACTs,4lives and31,040 verified planner points after a boundary-state and earned-life reader diagnosis.
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Two new native reset replays verify21,210 points,3 lives and no detected death in a privileged planner trajectory.
Read the update Watch replay ↗NUL after counter8→5;3lives,9,490observed points, controlled intervention.
Read the updateNew preregistered causal-event and push-stance strategy, outcome pending.
Read the updateAll18 original arithmetic mismatches explained; causal attribution remains a hypothesis. Later-ACT scope remains open.
Read the updateMatched native controls distinguish transformation from immediate objective reduction.
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