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Re:Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:04PM (#49937253)
Western tradition has firmly put pure reasoning in a cage. It serves its purpose only as a source of hypotheses, conjecture and thought experiments. Abrahamic religions, while still not accepted sensu proprio by many, are much less mystical than the Eastern Religions. You can see the difference in the unusual creative process of Ramanujan.

Which tradition are we to follow then whilst training the AI models? Pushed beyond their limits today's models tend to hallucinate and cannot be accepted sensu proprio. Philosophers will call it speculative reasoning. And yet, some speculation can be useful in breaking new grounds. Anyway, I have no answers. Just musings.

Re:Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:58PM (#49935809)
Supervised training uses this precise loop. The difference between inference and observation is called the loss function.

Models are now starting to show emergent behavior that they were not explicitly trained for. This is leading to the current debate.

Re:Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:49PM (#49935707)
Sorry, I misinterpreted your question:

Do we have evidence humans have an independent set of beliefs not shaped by knowledge and reasoning?

As:

Do we have evidence humans have an independent set of beliefs not shaped by observation and experience?

Because, that will be a priori or pure reason.

Re:Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:49AM (#49934868)
You made me start listening to Critique of Pure Reason [1] :-)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyhXtJN2AQQ

I hear what you're saying. But this is not such a model. The article says that various internal teams had to fine-tune Clef to suit their specific needs. They're even rolling out a RL training product line for it.
Re:Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:15AM (#49933786)
Philosophers like Kant, Descartes and Locke wanted to draw a distinction between a priori and a posteriori beliefs (or knowledge). I believe AI will be very much bound by these discussions. Some knowledge can be had purely by reason. Some other knowledge will require observations.
The model supports both instruction and RL fine-tuning. It looks like people have started training it already [1]. The RL tuning may be only available to the Cloudflare customers, I couldn't be sure.

1. https://huggingface.co/solanaclawd/clef-solana-research

Happy to see the uses of standard C++ including std::shared_ptr etc. in C++.
Please do not encourage your children to carry and brandish replica guns. This is never a good idea. Unfortunately I see this more frequently than I like. Kids don't just carry, they aim and pretend to shoot. Even in an open carry state like Florida brandishing a gun is illegal.
Re:Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:06PM (#49612313)
Videos. [2] is for the scientists to start using AlphaGenome Atlas from AntiGravity.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aToL5C-bQ

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qw3rDNX0Q

These are colorized after restoration. Not originally in color. You can find some of those here:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/second-world-war/d-day/rare-b...

Re:Gemini Distillation Service on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @07:10PM (#49091242)
Original link from Google is taken down. Returning 404
Re:Airbus Takes Flight from AWS on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:18AM (#48978479)
This link is an opinion piece. For a better technical and legal background this link from the same The Register is much better:

https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/16/airbus-...

Re:FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:46AM (#48969168)
Wow the guy did Mechanical Engineering and Applied Math before going into medicine and surgery.
> Paywall

Mr. Ratcliffe gave a speech in the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit. In summary: "The average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes".

The article states a few reasons. Mainly that the chip stocks "have rallied too far, too fast and spending on artificial intelligence has become excessive".

Relevant facts: Corporate insiders sold $77.6 billion of stock during the first half of 2026, a 20% increase from the first half of 2025.

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