Papers

Research, writing, and ideas worth putting a citation on.

others worth reading

AI Deskilling Is a Structural Problem

Argues that AI eroding human skills isn't a side effect — it's baked into how these systems are built and deployed. Worth reading if you think about what it means to actually understand the tools you use.

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2025

Reasoning over Precedents Alongside Statutes: Case-Augmented Deliberative Alignment for LLM Safety

Shows that teaching LLMs with case examples beats lengthy rule lists for safety. Less over-refusal, better real-world judgment. Practical read for anyone building on top of LLMs.

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2026

Memoria: A Scalable Agentic Memory Framework for Personalized Conversational AI

Proposes a hybrid memory system combining session-level summarization with a weighted knowledge graph to give LLMs persistent, personalized memory across conversations. Close to what I've been building independently.

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2025

Attention Residuals

Kimi Team replaces fixed residual connections in LLMs with learned, input-dependent depth-wise softmax attention. Each layer selectively retrieves from all previous layers instead of blindly accumulating them. Consistent gains across all scales, worth understanding if you work on LLM architecture.

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2026

A New Era for the Neuroscience of Social Behavior

Simons Foundation overview of how new tools and approaches are reshaping our understanding of the brain circuits behind social behavior. Relevant to anyone thinking about how intelligence, biological or artificial, is shaped by interaction.

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2022

Emotion as an Emergent Functional Concept in Large Language Models

Anthropic research exploring whether emotion-like representations emerge in LLMs as functional concepts, not simulated feelings, but internal states that shape behavior the same way emotions shape ours. One of the more honest and unsettling things Anthropic has published.

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2025

Prompt Engineering

IBM's breakdown of prompt engineering, what it is, why it matters, and how to think about shaping model behavior through language. Good foundation if you're building on top of LLMs.

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2024

How AI Is Transforming Data Analytics

Databricks on how AI is shifting data analytics from reactive reporting to predictive and autonomous decision-making. Useful context for anyone thinking about where AI fits in real business infrastructure.

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2024

Prompt Injection Defenses

Anthropic research on defending agentic AI systems against prompt injection, attacks where malicious content in the environment hijacks the model's instructions. Critical reading if you're building agents that interact with the real world.

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2025
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