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How to choose research problems
TLDR: balance between what your heart says and what the community will value
Sep 10
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Paras Chopra
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Don't tell LLMs you are an AI safety researcher
Adding “for AI safety research” increased refusals on a harmless paraphrasing task for some top models. Conservative, aligned public models might be…
Sep 5
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Dhruv Trehan
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August 2025
Tips on writing your first research paper
aka, how to increase your odds of acceptance at an AI/ML conference
Aug 29
•
Paras Chopra
9
What is research and how to do it?
or, can you teach an AI how to do good research?
Aug 12
•
Paras Chopra
32
7
Notes on Hierarchal Reasoning Model
aka what can we learn from the brain!
Aug 6
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Paras Chopra
9
1
July 2025
Practical tips on building LLM agents
Resources we stumbled upon to help build your next agent
Jul 22
•
Paras Chopra
59
2
How to approach research in AI
How we advice our interns to go about research
Jul 11
•
Paras Chopra
10
Manifesto for doing good science in AI
aka, why building things != doing research
Jul 7
•
Paras Chopra
49
3
How Many Agents Does it Take to Beat PyTorch?(surprisingly not that much)
Or: What happens when you give AI-agents a GPU and tell them to make it go brrr.
Jul 4
•
Shikhar Mishra
and
Ayush Nangia
12
1
Don't get tempted to build multi-agents
Linear, continuous LLM flows are all you need
Jul 3
•
Paras Chopra
8
1
From an idea to an ML paper in under 1 hour
or, vibe-researching using Gemini-CLI to find logical inconsistencies in text
Jul 1
•
Paras Chopra
28
6
June 2025
Reinforcement Learning algorithms summarized
Everything you wanted to learn about RL, but were too afraid to ask!
Jun 18
•
Paras Chopra
13
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