Smitali Bhandari

First research experience in AI

5 min read • 2026-06-05

First research experience in AI ft. Viveka 1.0 - sophomore year Background and Motivation I knew how to read math research papers from school. But I used to feel very lost while reading AI research papers....

Distilling Truth from Falsehood

20 min read • 2025-10-10

Distilling Truth from Falsehood Alternatively, read this blog on Substack here. Large Language models show impressive performance on various tasks. With the rate at which smarter, more capable models are being released, a section of researchers...

Distilling Truth from Falsehood

Through the Lenses - A Circuit Odyssey

9 min read • 2025-09-15

Read this blog on Substack here.

Artificial Intelligence Thoughts

3 min read • 2026-05-23

Humans only learn what they perceive in some form. There are no gradients we compute to back propagate. We do not retrieve from our weights, just in context. That is why all of us have different world models.

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