rao2z talks mythos of thinking traces at Max Planck Tubingen, slides and audio public
rao2z · x · 2026-10-09
rao2z gave a talk on "the mythos of thinking traces" to a full room at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tubingen, followed by afternoon discussions, with hosting by jonasgeiping. Slides and audio are publicly shared. The talk examines the gap between the narrative around reasoning traces and their actual mechanics — a conceptual look at the current reasoning-model wave that researchers can now access directly.
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