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Xenophanes and e/acc: Philosophy of Continuous Discovery
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I think the Greek philosopher Xenophanes would have been e/acc today: "The gods did not reveal to men all things in the beginning, but men through their own search find in the course of time that which is better."
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Monthly AI Model Releases Demand Frequent Evaluation Cycles
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Monthly model releases means we're going to need monthly evals haha
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Junior vs Senior: Different Perspectives on AI Technology Adoption
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The discrepency is always junior reaction "wow it's perfect", while more senior is "why is it doing it like this", and hopefully its a senior's reaction with openness rather than just thinking its useless.
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AutoReason: Advancing AI Reasoning Research and Model Discovery
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Paper: https://
github.com/NousResearch/a
utoreason/blob/main/paper/autoreason.pdf
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Self-refinement loops in AI: Problems and solutions
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Karpathy-inspired paper proves self-refinement destroys your AI's own output. Most AI self-refinement loops make outputs worse. Models hallucinate flaws to satisfy critique prompts. They expand scope every pass. They never stop editing. Autoreason is a new paper that fixes
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Embedding Leaderboard Performance Fails on Real Data
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Embedding leaderboard wins evaporate the second you swap to your actual corpus haha
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AI Model Evaluation Benchmarks Limited Testing Scope Critique
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Same energy as "we only tested on MMLU" a year ago haha
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Beyond Model Size: Smart Scaffolding for LLM Agents
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Think building an AI agent is just a better brain? What if the real secret is what you add outside the model? A team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, OPPO, and others argues that the future of LLM agents isn't about bigger weights, but smarter scaffolding. They introduce a
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April LLM Releases: Gemma 4, GLM-5.1, Qwen3.6, Kimi K2.6, DeepSeek V4
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April was a pretty strong month for LLM releases:
– Gemma 4
– GLM-5.1
– Qwen3.6
– Kimi K2.6
– DeepSeek V4 All are now added to the LLM Architecture Gallery. More details once I am fully back in May!