one must imagine sisyphus full of ideas: on exercising the idea muscle – sankalp's blog
Lore It was mid-May. I was a couple of weeks into catching up on post-training literature and learning reinforcement learning for LLMs in a more bottom-up...
28 Jun, 2026 Lore It was mid-May. I was a couple of weeks into catching up on post-training literature and learning reinforcement learning for LLMs in a more bottom-up way. Having done some basic experiments, I was unable to come up with an idea that had the allure to possess me for a week or two. I waited as if I was entitled to receive the idea from the muses. I wondered - if I can be creative in other areas like posting or coming up with ideas when given an objective, why am I not getting good ideas in this specific area of interest. I slowly realised that after years of working on…
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