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 ## Credits
 
+- Inspired by [Karpathy's Autoresearch](https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch). The `autoresearch` example program is based on that project.
 - Some of the examples in the `.autoloop/programs` folder are from [OpenEvolve](https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve/tree/main/examples).