This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model. They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick where if the model tries to stop thinking, they append "Wait" to force it to continue. Near o1 at math.

Something I wish mathematicians conveyed more convincingly to our students is how it’s possible to get stuck on a problem for literally *years*, and then solve it.

Do LLMs have true generalizable mathematical reasoning capability or are they merely memorizing problem-solving skills? 🤨 We present MATH-Perturb, modified level-5 problems from MATH dataset to benchmark LLMs' generalizability to slightly perturbed problems. 🔗

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Oh my goodness. GPT-o1 got a perfect score on my Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate #math exam, taking less than a minute to solve each problem. I freshly design non-standard problems for all of my exams, and they are open-book, open-notes. (Problems included below, with links to

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Noticing myself adopting a certain rhythm in AI-assisted coding (i.e. code I actually and professionally care about, contrast to vibe code). 1. Stuff everything relevant into context (this can take a while in big projects. If the project is small enough just stuff everything

Researchers have devised a scheme for painting the edges of a graph that’s *almost* as speedy as possible. Steve Nadis reports: quantamagazine.org/the-fastest-wa…

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The single most undervalued fact of linear algebra: matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices. Encoding matrices as graphs is a cheat code, making complex behavior simple to study. Let me show you how!

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The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing. Its features are slowly crystalizing: - Natively multimodal

Sudoku puzzles are just partially completed proper 9-colorings of a special graph

This is a nuclide chart. Number of Protons on Y axis Number of Neutrons on X axis The chart shows every known element and every known isotope. The proton number determines the element, the neutron number determines the isotope. The colour illustrates the half life of each