The shift from RL agents to LLM agents is not a simple model replacement; learning signals move from numeric spaces into language spaces, reshaping priors, evaluation, and memory.
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From Agent Cognitive Architecture to Agent Frameworks
Starting from CoALA’s cognitive architecture, this post discusses Workflow, Agent, Supervisor, Agent Team, and MAS boundaries, plus the engineering value of frameworks such as LangGraph.
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Making Agents Practical: Structured Output and Constrained Decoding for LLMs
Why is structured output hard for agents? This post explains what prompts, JSON mode, constrained decoding, and inference engines each solve.
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Why Data Keeps Fooling You: The Counterintuitive Inspection Paradox
Why does your wait for a bus often feel longer than the published average interval? This post explains the inspection paradox, a common statistical trap behind such intuitions.
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Why Language Models Hallucinate
A reading of OpenAI’s Why Language Models Hallucinate, arguing that hallucination is tied to training paradigms and binary evaluation pressure, not only data noise or model flaws.
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The Essence of LLM Reasoning and Training: From Surrogates to Reinforcement Learning Geometry
Starting from the view that loss is only a surrogate, this post revisits test-time compute, capability frontiers, policy entropy collapse, and Meta’s Three-Gate theory.
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What Does the Loss Landscape of LLMs Look Like?
Based on Unveiling the Basin-Like Loss Landscape in Large Language Models, this post explains basin-like loss landscapes and implications for fine-tuning and alignment.
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Compression for AGI: Compression as Intelligence
A summary of Jack Rae’s Compression for AGI: foundation-model training as lossless compression of useful information, and why lower loss can imply stronger generalization.
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Zipf's Law: From the Voynich Manuscript to Alien Civilizations
Is the Voynich manuscript random scribbling or a lost language? What would alien signals look like? Both questions point to the same statistical law.
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How to Share Data with a Statistician
A repost of Jeff Leek’s classic guide to preparing and organizing data before working with a statistician, covering raw data, tidy data, and code books.