English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings

Re:English professors double down on requiring printed copie... by somewhereoutth on Monday February 02, 2026 @06:36AM (#46854835)

'ability to reason' implies that LLMs are building a semantic model from their training data, whereas the simplest explanation for their behavior is that they are building a syntactic model (see Plato's Cave). Thus without new training they cannot 'learn', RAG or no RAG.

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Re:English professors double down on requiring printed copie... by SgtBastard on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @02:50PM (#46890704)

We have multiple threads of research demonstrating in-context learning, friend.

https://github.com/dqxiu/ICL_PaperList

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