August 5, 2026 Self-Consistency Is Just Probability Amplification

TL;DR: “Self-consistency” — ask a model the same question several times at a non-zero temperature and take the answer they most agree on (a plurality vote) — gives large accuracy gains over greedy dec…

July 29, 2026 Generate-and-Verify: What P vs NP Teaches Us About AI Reasoning

TL;DR: The defining feature of the complexity class NP is polynomial-time verifiability: a candidate answer is cheap to check. The asymmetry that matters shows up in its hardest members, the NP-comple…

May 11, 2026 What Reasoning Actually Means (and Why It Matters for Your Architecture)

It Started with a Saturday Morning Experiment I recently ran a simple test. I asked a small language model the same questions three times, with zero, one, and three rounds of self-reflection, and publ…