AI
When a Language Model Refers to Itself, What Is "Itself"?
A Turing-complete Transformer inherits Kleene-style self-reference, but the self it refers to is the prompt, not the weights. Notes on what that does and does not say about …
AI
AI
Three Fixed Points Hiding in "Recursive Self-Improvement"
Kleene's recursion theorem, the Y combinator, and a contraction mapping all give you x = f(x). They answer different questions, and it helps to keep them apart before talking about …
Advising
Treat Me Like an Agent
The students who get the most out of me are doing something that looks a lot like prompt engineering — whether or not they would describe it that way.
Citation Recommendation
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