Papers

The other three playlists here are real study: lecture notebook, textbook on the side, every line of code picked apart until it hurts. This one is a different vibe. Every once in a while I read a paper or survey that gets me excited, usually skimmed diagonally, not read page by page with a magnifying glass, and I wanted a place to talk about it without all the ceremony of a lecture.

That's what this playlist is: I tell you what I found coolest about the paper, with a crooked metaphor, some joking around here and there, and whenever it fits, some simple Python code and a chart just to give you that view. Don't expect notebook-level rigor or section-by-section coverage, the goal here is a straight conversation about an interesting idea, not an academic summary.

First in the series is about a topic there's no escaping these days: agentic reasoning in language models, a giant survey trying to organize everything that became trendy to call an "AI agent".