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## Implementation and Testing
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**Claude (Anthropic)**, my AI collaboration partner, who contributed to:
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- Performance optimization strategies and SIMD exploration
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- Benchmark design and statistical analysis
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- Documentation clarity and pedagogical structure
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- Iterative refinement of code examples
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- Identification of edge cases and potential bugs
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**Claude (Anthropic) and PT-5.1 (OpenAI)
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This collaboration represents a new paradigm in technical authorship—human expertise directing AI capabilities toward productive ends.
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**GPT-5.1 (OpenAI)**, my second AI collaboration partner, who:
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- Helped reshape textbook-style sections into a practical, guide-like narrative
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- Proposed realistic, end-to-end scenarios drawn from robotics, geospatial work, scientific computing, and gaming
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- Emphasized integration patterns and “how this feels in a real codebase”
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- Assisted with maintaining consistency of tone and structure across chapters and parts
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Together, these systems allowed for a much faster and broader exploration of design options than would have been possible with human effort alone.
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**Early reviewers and testers** who provided invaluable feedback on pre-release versions:
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- The Rust gamedev working group, who tested pathfinding performance
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- Geospatial researchers who validated the GIS integration features
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- Robotics engineers who stress-tested the real-time capabilities
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- Scientific computing users who pushed the system to extreme scales
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This collaboration represents a new paradigm in technical authorship—human expertise directing AI capabilities toward productive ends. Together, these systems allowed for a much faster and broader exploration of design options than would have been possible with human effort alone.
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## Institutional Support
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**The open-source community**, whose philosophy of transparent, collaborative development ensures that knowledge advances collectively rather than in proprietary silos.
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**GitHub**, for providing the infrastructure that makes modern open-source collaboration possible.
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**The MIT Press**, for taking a chance on a technical book that bridges academic research and practical engineering in unconventional ways.
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## Personal Acknowledgments
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**My colleagues in the autonomous systems group**, who tolerated months of me evangelizing about crystallography to anyone who would listen. Your patience and constructive skepticism improved this work immeasurably.
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**My family**, who supported this project through countless evenings and weekends of writing, coding, and benchmarking. Your encouragement made this possible.
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**The maintainers of coffee shops and tea houses** where much of this book was written. Special thanks to those establishments that didn't mind a customer occupying a table for hours with just one beverage and a laptop covered in geometry sketches.
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