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Re:Less Is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @11:33AM (#45517307)
Very cool to see the effectiveness of recurrence on ARC. For those interested in recurrence, here are other works that leverage a similar approach for other types of problems:

Language modeling:

Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05171

Puzzle solving:

A Simple Loss Function for Convergent Algorithm Synthesis using RNNs https://openreview.net/pdf?id=WaAJ883AqiY

End-to-end Algorithm Synthesis with Recurrent Networks: Logical Extrapolation Without Overthinking https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05826

Can You Learn an Algorithm? Generalizing from Easy to Hard Problems with Recurrent Networks https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/file/3501672ebc68a...

General:

Think Again Networks and the Delta Loss https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.11816

Universal Transformers https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03819

Adaptive Computation Time for Recurrent Neural Networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08983

Similar alternative for Google Search: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-filter/eidh...

Even the defaults match this Kagi top list.

Filter lists can be hosted anywhere and imported with the @ syntax:

# Make these domains stand out in results +en.wikipedia.org +stackoverflow.com +github.com +api.rubyonrails.org # SPAM - never show these results experts-exchange.com # Pull filters from external source @https://clobapi.herokuapp.com/default-filters.txt

This default list is the only one I distribute but users have come up with own lists.

It would be nice to have a Github repo with such lists (or meta lists: the @ syntax works recursively, allowing lists to import other lists).

Your suggestion of having a standard for the list syntax is interesting.

I love the initiative, but I agree with parent that some prior art should be acknowledged.

My extension has existed since 2012: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-filter/eidh...

In June 2020, I added support for external (collaborative) filter lists which are incredibly similar to Goggles.

Not saying anything was copied, just that it might be nice to cite/reference prior work.

Re:Winning Wordle on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:35PM (#30522551)
A related question is: "What is the smallest fixed set of guesses which always solve Wordle, narrowing down possible hidden words to just one?". So far the answer is 8: MODEL LEVIN TAPPA GRABS DURGY FLYTE CHAWK SPOOR [1].

Bringing this down to 5 would mean that one could always win at Wordle with the same set of 5 guesses. Seems unlikely that such a solution exists, but interesting question nonetheless.

[1]: https://github.com/alexandres/magicwordschallenge

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