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Ashwin Gopinath
Personal blog · nanothoughts.substack.comaiscience
Ashwin Gopinath writes Nano Thoughts, a personal blog at nanothoughts.substack.com about ai and science. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Reflecting on Reflexion”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Thoughts about rapidly growing convergence between biology, data science thanks to several semiconductor technologies and robotics. Written by AG, and friends, in between arguing about immortality and lemon picking. Click to read Nano Thoughts, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Reflecting on Reflexion8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-03-24
What Hacker News says?
I expect progress will be much less predictable. Some kinds of action look pretty easy; it depends on the domain. For example, I expect skill at writing some kinds of code to improve dramatically because running tests in a sandbox looks easy. It’s already being researched. [1] Extending that to device drivers might be a bit harder. Fuzzing is already mostly automated and smarter fuzzing could get pretty scary. [1] h…
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on “From Deep to Long Learning”Submitted Reflecting on Reflexion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCrafting good prompts makes a big difference. Also, after it gives you an answer, say you think there's an error and ask it to check its own result. It will often correct itself. This self-reflection ability leading to more accurate outputs was pointed out in the new Reflexion paper: https://nanothoughts.substack.com/p/reflecting-on-reflexion https://twitter.com/Orwelian84/status/1639859947948363777
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on “Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?”Submitted Reflecting on Reflexion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflecting on Reflexion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflecting on Reflexion: GPT4 AI Agents that self-reflect perform better as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflecting on Reflexion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflecting on Reflexion as a story · 1 points
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