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Apple researchers maybe disprove ‘reasoning’ (vs. well-specified conventional algorithms):
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
Analyses:
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

UNDERNEWS: Coffee ban recommended in three states
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2025/06/coffee-ban-recommended-in-three-states.html

A look at seven rebuttals to Apple's paper on limitations of Large Reasoning Models, and why none make a compelling case (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral-apple

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fall short
Also: another paper that seals the deal

Apple-Paper: Warum Reasoning-Modelle wohl nicht denken
Sie brauchen viel Leistung, liefern aber nicht immer bessere Ergebnisse: Large Reasoning Models sollen die KI revolutionieren. Eine Apple-Studie kritisiert das.

How Well Can Reasoning Models Identify and Recover from Unhelpful Thoughts?
Sohee Yang, Sang-Woo Lee, Nora Kassner, Daniela Gottesman, Sebastian Riedel, Mor Geva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10979

How Well Can Reasoning Models Identify and Recover from Unhelpful Thoughts?
Recent reasoning models show the ability to reflect, backtrack, and self-validate their reasoning, which is crucial in spotting mistakes and arriving at accurate solutions. A natural question that arises is how effectively models can perform such self-reevaluation. We tackle this question by investigating how well reasoning models identify and recover from four types of unhelpful thoughts: uninformative rambling thoughts, thoughts irrelevant to the question, thoughts misdirecting the question a…

B.C. cyclist's clever Strava drawings:
"Perfect intersection' of art, fitness and road rash
When B.C.'s Janine Strong got into road cycling in 2019, she had no idea it would lead her down the path of Strava art: the creation of massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world."
See Ya later Alligator
#stava

Egyptian police violently obstruct the international Gaza Peace March.
Ocupación israelí | La policía egipcia impide con violencia la marcha internacional a Gaza - El Salto - Edición General
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ocupacion-is

La policía egipcia impide con violencia la marcha internacional a Gaza
La marcha de 4.000 personas a Gaza es reprimida por la policía del régimen de Al-Sisi. La organización pide a las embajadas que reaccionen y protejan a sus ciudadanos.

Any recommendations for brunch or lunch in Madison Wisconsin? (I’ll be there in 30 minutes!)
#madisonwi #madison #Wisconsin

❓ for privacy-minded folks- anyone have a recommendation for a scale that measures more than weight (ex. muscle mass, fat %) but is also privacy-protecting?
And ideally has an “app” or interface that can track the info, see trends over time, etc.
Many choices online… but I have no idea where they are sending data (or to whom they are selling it).
Most private option of course is a scale that keeps all data local, but there is convenience in an app that easily tracks data, s…

Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/mistral-releases-a-pai…

Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models | TechCrunch
Like other reasoning models, Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics.