I could certainly imagine that "nesting" the simulation might be too "effortful" for the model, compute or data density wise. My results with it are not too bad so imo it's at least worth people try / experiment with / think about. For example it might be useful to read multiple
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Engineering Emergent Personalities in LLM Reward Optimization
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There is definitely work going into engineering the "you" simulation – the personality that gets all the rewards in verifiable problems, or all the upvotes from users/judge LLMs, or mimics the responses of SFT, and there is an emergent composite personality from that. My point is
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LLMs as Simulators: Rethinking Prompt Engineering Approaches
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Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask: "What do you think about xyz"? There is no "you". Next time try: "What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?" The LLM can channel/simulate many
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Edutainment: One Weird Trick to Guilt-Free Entertainment Consumption
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Edutainment. This one weird trick to consume entertainment and feel good about it.
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Turtle Graphics: Classic Programming Learning Tool Rediscovered
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So cool! Distinctly reminded of turtle graphics (a popular way to learn programming)
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AI Image Analysis Limitations Training Data Freshness
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One more comment is that giving this image to an AI and asking about it is not sufficient to show the diff because it's all over the training data by now. You'd have to use a new, very recent image, taken yesterday or something. But it doesn't super matter, even if it didn't work
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Pretraining and Finetuning Outperform Algorithm Discovery in AI
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AI has crushed it since this post way beyond expectation. I made the same category of mistake all of AI was making, of thinking we have to discover and write the algorithm. You don't. You pretrain and then finetune a BIG neural network on lots of tasks and it just falls out. lol.
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LLMs Recognizing Functions Across Programming Libraries
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I've had medium success asking LLMs if a thing exists, it works out of the box for some of the more well-known things (e.g. both GPT 5.1 and Gemini 3 know about this function if you describe the tensor transformation in words). For more esoteric or new libraries (e.g. uv being a
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AI Detection in Student Homework Remains Impossible Task
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A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights: 1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be
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Nano Banana: Refreshing Alternative to Corporate AI Branding
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I love that it's called Nano Banana instead of Google Imagine or some other corpo thing