I asked astra to make playable 4D chess

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Keyframe•30 minutes ago

I asked Astra to try and fix an issue in my codebase I've been battling for a month. Day and half later on high and it's still circling the drain. Seems like with each new model we praise it based on toys, but then reality hits the ground soon and we wait for the next model. In the meantime, good ol' brain.

comboy•15 minutes ago

Have you tried turning it on and off? More seriously try to remove agent memory or make it refactor it or go through the docs and look for inconsistencies.

But I still don't know how people work with codex when it keeps resetting the context so often, I mean it's surprisingly good at making notes to itself and can follow a long task, but if there are multiple instructions it sometimes forgets some of them.

dwallin•24 minutes ago

I’m just trying to understand, there’s an issue you’ve been unable to deal with for a month, and Astra not being able to handle it in 36 hours is disqualifying?

Keyframe•21 minutes ago

On and off for a month, not straight month and not dedicated time. I am quite confident I will be able to solve it within a week or two of dedicated time. Here, on the other hand, we have this supposedly powerful thing that can do magic, unlike myself. We'll see. I'm not even confident, by looking at what it does, that it will even be able to solve it. Only thing I saw that I like is it's better in communication style compared to Fable and Opus.

pluc•25 minutes ago

As long as it keeps AI in the news

cwmoore•13 minutes ago

I made 3D sudoku, books on paper called SUDOCUBE, with a coded index for the clues, using Opus 4.7 I think it was, which came up with the algorithm and extended my own pre-LLM Kakuro codebase:

https://www.kakurokokoro.com/sudocube

hermannj314•about 1 hour ago

Excellent job, this was very fun to play.

I liked the explanations, graphics, interactive tesseract, all nice attentions to detail.

How much guidance did you give Astra? Did you give a single prompt, an example site to mimic or was there more to the design and make process?

skyfantom•about 1 hour ago

Not astra made but my mom and nephew say it's a fun thing to play https://chesspoly.com (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/chesspolly/id6798789898)

amelius•about 1 hour ago

If it is only 4x4x2x2 then this has fewer hypersquares than a proper version of 4D tic tac toe, e.g.:

https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~r345liu/

throwuxiytayq•about 1 hour ago

In game design, restraint can be a virtue.

K0balt•31 minutes ago

Yeah, if it was properly 4D it would be pretty unplayable I think, you’d need 4 each 4 layer cubes, and they could not be nested in any physical configuration.

amelius•24 minutes ago

You can show them as 4x4 boards of 4x4 squares.

omnicognate•21 minutes ago

I think this (from 2000) describes exactly these rules: https://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submiss...

There are many, many other such games with all sorts of variations on the rules.

rlkamn•6 minutes ago

For the record: Once you had found the source of plagiarism, the entire submission was flagged from the front page within 10 minutes.

The reach of any embarrassing news must be limited, and there are hundreds of new AI advertisements in the pipeline that will crowd out this one.

tlarkworthy•about 1 hour ago

I was expecting it more like a filled hypercube but its more like two surfaces? Probably better the way it is.

ljf•about 1 hour ago

A quick reminder as to just how bad I am at classic chess, but this is really fun and brain bending

airza•about 1 hour ago

I think flipping the tiling between light and dark on the top left and the bottom right (or vice versa) would make more sense. Then bishops stay on one color and the knight always alternates between colors (like 2d chess)

navane•26 minutes ago

There is already 5d chess, it's been out for years on steam. It's very polished, has tutorials and puzzles. Time travel and parallel universes.

MeteorMarc•29 minutes ago

It feels unnatural that a white bishop can move to black squares.

jtxt•41 minutes ago

Very cool! (For learning/ease of use, it would be helpful for me to be able tap enemy pieces to see where they could go next. (But with a different indicator.))

12h-qwq•34 minutes ago

"i made this!" No, Astra didn't "make" anything. It plagiarized from old ideas before LLMs like (2020):

https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-on-earth-is-5d-chess

sebzim4500•30 minutes ago

This is clearly not the same thing. Other than both of them adding additional dimensions to chess they have nothing in common.

omnicognate•21 minutes ago

https://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submiss...

12a6a•22 minutes ago

Do humans have to search all 10000 4d-chess ideas before LLMs to find the exact one that was plagiarized?

shmoil•about 1 hour ago

Did it also make a 4D chess Stockfish 19 for you?

thousand_nights•about 1 hour ago

very cool. that being said, I have never not wanted to play anything more than this :D