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Jerk Matters: Teaching Reinforcement Learning Some Mechanical Manners

A mechanism-first reading of how higher-order action regularization can make reinforcement learning policies smoother, less switch-happy, and more practical for HVAC and other physical-control systems.

January 6, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Pulling the Thread: Why LLM Reasoning Often Unravels

Project Ariadne shows how counterfactual interventions can audit whether an LLM’s reasoning trace actually causes its answer, or merely decorates it.

January 6, 2026 · 2 min · Zelina
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Small Models, Big Brains: Falcon-H1R and the Economics of Reasoning

Falcon-H1R shows that the economics of reasoning depends less on parameter count alone and more on architecture, curated training, verifiable rewards, and confidence-aware inference.

January 6, 2026 · 19 min · Zelina
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Think Before You Sink: Streaming Hallucinations in Long Reasoning

A mechanism-first reading of why long chain-of-thought hallucinations behave like evolving states, and how streaming hidden-state probes could turn reasoning reliability into an operational signal.

January 6, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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Thinking Without Understanding: When AI Learns to Reason Anyway

A practical reading of simulated reasoning: why reasoning models are no longer mere stochastic parrots, but still not grounded human reasoners.

January 6, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Causality Remembers: Teaching Social Media Defenses to Learn from the Past

A mechanism-first reading of ACCD, a memory-guided framework that makes coordinated behavior detection more adaptive, label-efficient, and operationally useful.

January 5, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Crossing the Line: Teaching Pedestrian Models to Reason, Not Memorize

A mechanism-first reading of PedX-LLM, a vision-and-knowledge-enhanced local LLM for generalizable pedestrian crossing behavior inference.

January 5, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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Hard Problems Pay Better: Why Difficulty-Aware DPO Fixes Multimodal Hallucinations

A mechanism-first reading of DA-DPO, showing why multimodal preference tuning fails when easy preference pairs dominate the learning signal.

January 5, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Pressing by Cosine, Defending by Distance: When Football Learns Semantics

A mechanism-first reading of a semantic-distance football DSS: how tactical intuition becomes an auditable recommender, and why feasibility is not yet proof of better match outcomes.

January 5, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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When LLMs Stop Guessing and Start Complying: Agentic Neuro-Symbolic Programming

How AgenticDomiKnowS turns low-resource neuro-symbolic programming from expert-only craft into a staged, reviewable workflow.

January 5, 2026 · 13 min · Zelina