Assorted evaltune improvements#389
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This patch brings an overall training time reduction by a factor of 3 by introducing:
The first speedup is achieved by avoiding to populate the autograd tree with 0 sum and 0 products.
The tuning schedule is more reliable (observed lower rate of infamous king safety flukes, where ks values seem to just shoot towards high negatives for eg and then die gradient-wise), produces interpretable material values (yay!) and might even gain a couple of elo points.
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Passed STC nonregression:
https://ob.cwchess.org/test/1345/
LTC nonregression pending:
https://ob.cwchess.org/test/1346/
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