Stories of AI technology, research, products, and the people shaping them
Thoughtful coverage of technology and product design and validation, notable papers and AI trends, Patty’s new initiatives, and the culture behind the work.
Why curators who only read trajectories pollute memory, and how read-only environment probing that checks, scopes, and refreshes memories changes results on CLBench and APEX.
Why search slows down when the lower bound gets stuck, how Probabilistic Focal Search alternates between FOCAL and minimum f nodes with probability p, what the experiments show, and which systems questions remain.
How UnitBoost replaces the generative manager with a unit map, constrained argmax assembly, and an explicit residual, with results and limits explained.
A close reading of a controlled web-task study on procedural memory reuse and interference, from the WebShop version history and a divergent pilot run to a 32-cell experiment and what its region of non-interference does and does not show.
