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• How Reasoning Models Are Built — From Chain-of-Thought to GRPO, in Twelve Papers

  o1, R1 and QwQ are not new architectures. They are long output optimised toward a gradeable objective. This traces the lineage through twelve papers — Chain-of-Thought (2022), STaR, PRM, DeepSeek-R1's GRPO, s1's budget f

  2026-09-06 · 12 min read #ai#llm#reasoning#reinforcement-learning#grpo

• Video Generation and Understanding Technical Reports: What to Read, and Why Constraints Beat Demos

  Ten video generation and understanding technical reports, each verified by opening the arXiv abstract page directly. CogVideoX, Movie Gen, HunyuanVideo, LTX-Video, Wan, Seedance 1.0 and 2.0, plus Qwen2.5-VL, VideoLLaMA 3

  2026-08-12 · 7 min read #ai-papers#paper-review#technical-report#video-generation#diffusion-transformer

• Text LLM Technical Reports: What to Read, and How to Read Design Decisions Instead of Rankings

  Nine text-LLM technical reports, each verified by opening the arXiv abstract page directly. What DeepSeek-V3, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Gemma 3, Olmo 3, Kimi K2, MiniMax-01, Mellum2 and s1 each did that was new, and which limi

  2026-08-12 · 7 min read #ai-papers#paper-review#technical-report#llm#moe

• OCR and Document Understanding Technical Reports: What to Read, and Why Parsing Is Not Finished

  Ten OCR and document understanding technical reports, each verified by opening the arXiv abstract page directly. From Donut and Nougat through GOT-OCR2.0, olmOCR, DeepSeek-OCR and its successor, GLM-OCR, Qianfan-OCR, Min

  2026-08-12 · 7 min read #ai-papers#paper-review#technical-report#ocr#document-ai

• How to Read Leaderboards and Benchmarks: Why SOTA Has Such a Short Shelf Life

  Twelve benchmark methodology papers, each verified by opening the arXiv abstract page directly, assembled into a guide for reading leaderboard numbers. Data contamination, prompt format sensitivity, eval harness differen

  2026-08-12 · 7 min read #ai-papers#paper-review#technical-report#benchmark#evaluation

• Speech Recognition and Synthesis Technical Reports: What to Read, and What a Single WER Hides

  Ten speech recognition and synthesis technical reports, each verified by opening the arXiv abstract page directly. Whisper, Omnilingual ASR, Qwen3-ASR, the Open ASR Leaderboard, Seed-TTS and F5-TTS, CosyVoice 2, Qwen3-TT

  2026-08-12 · 7 min read #ai-papers#paper-review#technical-report#speech-recognition#text-to-speech

• Image Generation and Understanding Technical Reports: What to Read, and Why Design Beats Sample Images

  Eleven image generation and understanding technical reports, each verified by opening the arXiv abstract page directly. Rectified flow transformers, VAR, Emu3, SANA, Janus-Pro, FLUX.1 Kontext, the Qwen-Image line, Seedre

  2026-08-12 · 8 min read #ai-papers#paper-review#technical-report#image-generation#diffusion-transformer

• How the Stanford Prison Experiment Fell Apart — What the Archives Revealed

  The 1971 prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo entered textbooks and feature films as the story of ordinary students who became brutal guards in six days. Yet the original data appeared not in a top-tier journal but i

  2026-07-26 · 9 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#replication#research-ethics

• The Experiment Where One Dollar Beat Twenty — Cognitive Dissonance and Sixty Years of Rebuttal

  Participants were made to do a deliberately boring task, then asked to lie about it. One group was paid one dollar, the other twenty dollars. The people who later rated the task as more enjoyable were the ones who had be

  2026-07-26 · 13 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#decision-making#mindset

• The Milgram Obedience Experiment Reexamined — the Other Side of That 65 Percent

  The Milgram experiment, begun at Yale in 1961, has been summarized in one sentence for decades: 65 percent of participants went all the way to the maximum voltage. But that figure is the value from one of some 24 variati

  2026-07-26 · 11 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#obedience#research-ethics

• The 38 Were Never There — The Myth of the Bystander Effect and the Real Experiment

  The 1964 New York Times article reporting that 38 neighbors merely watched while Kitty Genovese was murdered gave birth to the concept of the bystander effect. Then a 2007 review in American Psychologist established that

  2026-07-26 · 12 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#ethics#communication

• Losses Hurt Twice as Much as Gains — The Prospect Theory Original and the 45 Years Since

  The sentence "people feel the pain of a loss twice as strongly as the pleasure of a gain" has become a fixture of negotiation textbooks and pricing memos. Open the source — the 1979 Econometrica paper by Kahneman and Tve

  2026-07-26 · 13 min read #psychology#paper-review#behavioral-economics#decision-making#money

• The Dunning-Kruger Effect — That Famous Graph Is Not in the Original Paper

  The Peak of Mount Stupid graph that circulates online appears nowhere in the 1999 paper by Dunning and Kruger. The original was four studies that gave Cornell undergraduates tasks in humor, logic and grammar and compared

  2026-07-26 · 9 min read #psychology#paper-review#metacognition#self-assessment#statistics

• Does Willpower Really Run Out — From the Radish Experiment to the Replication Crisis, with Publication Bias in Code

  "Willpower drains like a muscle." The ego depletion theory once looked like one of the most solid ideas in psychology. From the 1998 experiment in which students who ate radishes in a room full of chocolate aroma gave up

  2026-07-20 · 7 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#willpower#replication

• How Far Do Income and Happiness Rise Together — The Full Story of the 75,000 Dollar Debate

  "Beyond an annual income of 75,000 dollars, happiness stops rising." Kahneman and his 2010 study turned that into common sense. Then in 2021 Killingsworth, using real-time smartphone data, reported the exact opposite — h

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#happiness#money

• Growth Mindset, Between Hype and Truth — From the Praise Experiment to a Nation-Scale Test

  Growth mindset — the idea that believing ability can change makes grades go up — swept through education, and the hype grew just as fast. This post restores the starting point, the 1998 praise experiment by Mueller and D

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#growth#education

• The Original Paper Behind the 10,000-Hour Debate — Berlin Violinists and the 12% Truth

  Open the 1993 Ericsson paper where the 10,000-hour rule was born, and you find a picture quite different from the one the bestsellers told. This installment reads, in order, the actual design of the Berlin music academy

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#deliberate-practice#expertise

• Do Not Reread — Close the Book and Recall: The Original Testing-Effect Paper and the Spaced-Repetition Algorithm

  Rereading your notes feels like knowing, but the exam exposes the gap. Roediger and Karpicke's 2006 experiment shows exactly why: rereading wins a test five minutes later, then loses badly to repeated retrieval (testing

  2026-07-20 · 7 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#learning#memory

• Testing Running Against Antidepressants — The SMILE Trial and the 25 Years Since

  Everyone says exercise is good for your mood, but clinical trials that randomly assign patients with depression to exercise or an antidepressant and compare them head to head are rare. In 1999, the SMILE study led by Blu

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#exercise#mental-health

• The Marshmallow Test Is Only Half True — From the Original Paper to the 2018 Replication

  The marshmallow test supposedly proves that patience at age 4 decides your life. Read the original paper, though, and the popular myth starts to crack. What the 1972 Mischel experiment actually showed (waiting is a matte

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#self-control#replication