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Cheap Signals, Expensive Insights: Rethinking AI Evaluation with Tensor Factorization

A mechanism-first reading of how tensor factorization turns noisy autorater outputs into human-aligned, fine-grained AI evaluation under limited annotation budgets.

March 3, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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From Perception to Empathy: Why Small Models May Win the Emotional AI Race

Nano-EmoX shows why emotional AI should be designed as a perception-to-understanding-to-interaction system, not as a pile of sentiment classifiers wearing a lab coat.

March 3, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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OpenRad or Open Chaos? Cleaning Up Radiology AI’s Model Mess

OpenRad shows that the bottleneck in radiology AI is no longer only model invention, but the messy infrastructure needed to discover, verify, compare, and reuse models.

March 3, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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Trust Issues? Fixing Test-Time RL with Verified Votes

A mechanism-first reading of T3RL, showing why self-consensus can collapse into confident error and how tool-verified voting offers a more stable reward signal for test-time reinforcement learning.

March 3, 2026 · 13 min · Zelina
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When Agents Behave: Conformal Policy Control and the Business of Safe Autonomy

A mechanism-first reading of Conformal Policy Control, and why calibrated deviation from a safe policy may matter more for enterprise autonomy than another round of post-training bravado.

March 3, 2026 · 21 min · Zelina
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When Plans Talk Back: Conversational AI Meets Classical Planning

A mechanism-first reading of how LLM agents can make formal planning systems easier to question, revise, and trust without pretending to replace the planner.

March 3, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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When Puzzles Become Process: Benchmarking the Agentic Mind

A comparison-based reading of Pencil Puzzle Bench, showing why verifiable feedback loops may matter as much as raw reasoning effort for enterprise AI agents.

March 3, 2026 · 13 min · Zelina
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Curiosity Under Constraint: Engineering Agency, Not Just Intelligence

A mechanism-first reading of the Artificial Agency Program, and why business AI should be evaluated by how it spends observation, action, compute, and communication budgets.

March 2, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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Dare to Benchmark: Why Data Science Agents Still Trip Over Their Own Pipelines

DARE-bench shows why AI data-science agents need verifiable workflow discipline, not just better final-answer accuracy.

March 2, 2026 · 19 min · Zelina
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LemmaBench: When AI Finally Meets Real Mathematics

LemmaBench shows why research-level AI evaluation depends less on harder problem lists than on turning live expert work into fair, self-contained, contamination-resistant tests.

March 2, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina