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27 stops in the catalog

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Every stop that sits on a trail, kept as an entry of its own. One external site each, opened and read, with a line on why it earned its place.

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Anthropic research page under the Interpretability label, headline 'Tracing the thoughts of a large language model' dated Mar 27, 2025, a 'Read the paper' button, and an embedded video thumbnail with a hand-drawn circuit diagram AI and Developer Psychology

Anthropic Traces the Internal Reasoning Behind Claude's Answers

Anthropic makes and sells Claude, the model this research examines, and its own interpretability team ran the study...

 Substack article page headed "LLMs and World Models, Part 1" with the subtitle "How do Large Language Models Make Sense of Their Worlds?", byline Melanie Mitchell dated Feb 13, 2025, the opening section "AI Brittleness in the Before Times," and a dermatology photo of a skin lesion used as an example image AI and Developer Psychology

Do LLMs Have World Models? Melanie Mitchell Investigates

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans is Melanie Mitchell's ongoing newsletter on where AI research actually stands, and...

 Substack post "In defense of stochastic parrots" with subtitle "Large-language models are useful and that's the problem", byline Benjamin Riley, Feb 16 2026, above a photo of a green and orange Senegal parrot on a palm frond captioned "Senegalese not stochastic" AI and Developer Psychology

In Defense of Stochastic Parrots: How LLMs Predict Text

Benjamin Riley runs Cognitive Resonance, a newsletter and consultancy built around explaining how AI systems actually...

 Dark-themed Substack post titled 'The Stochastic Parrot is Dead: Anthropic's J-Lens Shows LLMs Aren't Just Regurgitating Correlated Tokens In Their Training Data', by Nebu Pookins, Jul 11 2026, above an illustration of a lens beaming a blue network of light onto a parrot between two parrot anatomy sketches AI and Developer Psychology

Nebu Pookins Argues Anthropic's J-Lens Refutes the Stochastic Parrot

Nebu's Newsletter is Nebu Pookins' personal blog on AI and software, and this post makes the case that a specific...

 Quanta Magazine article page under the Artificial Intelligence label, headline "New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text" with the standfirst about stochastic parrots, above a purple illustration of low-poly geometric parrot shapes AI and Developer Psychology

New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text, on Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine is a nonprofit science publication that covers deep, sourced explainers on math, physics, biology and...