Category: Research
Shared context is shared bias
Every method that claims breadth eventually has to answer one question: are the branches actually independent, or do they merely look different? Tree-of-thought expands a frontier, but each node is conditioned on the path that produced it. The tree gets wider without getting more independent. If the root commits to a framing, every leaf inherits…
Reading the adhd evals honestly
We judged adhd head-to-head against a single-shot baseline across six open-ended engineering problems, scored 0–10 on five dimensions. It won five. The headline everyone quotes is trap detection at 5.2×. That is the number I trust least, and this note explains why. What the ratio actually measures A ratio between two scores on a bounded scale is not…