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When the Tutor Is a Model: Learning Gains, Guardrails, and the Quiet Rise of AI Co‑Tutors

A classroom trial reveals that effective AI tutoring depends less on autonomous intelligence than on diagnostic context, constrained generation, human judgment, and careful measurement.

December 31, 2025 · 14 min · Zelina
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MIRAGE-VC: Teaching LLMs to Think Like VCs (Without Drowning in Graphs)

MIRAGE-VC shows how utility-aware graph retrieval, specialist agents, and adaptive evidence fusion can turn sprawling relationship networks into focused decision-support.

December 30, 2025 · 16 min · Zelina
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NeuroSPICE: When Circuits Stop Ticking and Start Thinking

NeuroSPICE recasts circuit simulation as continuous, differentiable function learning—promising easier emerging-device modeling and optimization, but not a faster replacement for SPICE.

December 30, 2025 · 17 min · Zelina
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Regrets, Graphs, and the Price of Privacy: Federated Causal Discovery Grows Up

I-PERI shows how intervention-driven differences across private datasets can reveal causal directions that ordinary federated learning would discard as inconvenient heterogeneity.

December 30, 2025 · 17 min · Zelina
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Replay the Losses, Win the Game: When Failed Instructions Become Your Best Training Data

Hindsight Instruction Replay shows how partially compliant model responses can become useful positive training examples without replacing clear binary rewards with ambiguous partial-credit scores.

December 30, 2025 · 18 min · Zelina
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The Web, Reimagined as a World Model

A practical examination of how deterministic web infrastructure can give generative AI room to create without handing it control of reality.

December 30, 2025 · 6 min · Zelina
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Think Wide, Then Think Hard: Forcing LLMs to Be Creative (On Purpose)

CreativeDC shows how separating unconstrained exploration from constraint-heavy refinement can produce substantially more varied LLM outputs without materially reducing their utility.

December 30, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina
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Many Minds, One Decision: Why Agentic AI Needs a Brain, Not Just Nerves

A mechanism-first examination of how multi-model disagreement and centralized reasoning can make agentic AI more governable—and why consensus still cannot substitute for verification.

December 29, 2025 · 14 min · Zelina
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OrchestRA and the End of Linear Drug Discovery

OrchestRA shows how drug-discovery agents can route pharmacological failures back into molecular design, while also revealing how far an executable in-silico loop remains from a validated medicine.

December 29, 2025 · 16 min · Zelina
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Pruning Is a Game, and Most Weights Lose

A game-theoretic pruning paper shows how neural-network sparsity can emerge from participation, cost, and equilibrium rather than from post-hoc importance scores.

December 29, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina