{"id":161,"date":"2026-02-02T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/?p=161"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:52:08","slug":"million-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/million-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Million Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenjDicken\">@BenjDicken<\/a> studying database papers was very inspirational but I never did anything about it last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let me get started.. Today\u2019s paper is &#8220;Solving A Million-Step LLM Task With Zero Errors&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takeaways: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Break the task into many many (deterministic) micro-tasks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Run each task 2+ times to implement voting, aka ambiguity detection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* N\u22652 queries is unavoidable, ambiguity detection without redundancy is not possible <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The paper explicitly accepts higher token cost as the price of certainty <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* This is a reliability architecture, not an efficiency one <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s interesting and relevant to <a href=\"https:\/\/millionminds.one\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/millionminds.one\">1MM<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* redundancy \u2248 column consensus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* disagreement \u2248 instability signal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* repeated sampling \u2248 temporal pooling <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* escalation \u2248 attention \/ gain control <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, this paper accidentally reinvented cortical voting in LLM form<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2511.09030\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2511.09030<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/arxiv-2511-09030\/\">https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/chat-arxiv-2511-09030\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said @BenjDicken studying database papers was very inspirational but I never did anything about it last year. So let me get started.. Today\u2019s paper is &#8220;Solving A Million-Step LLM Task With Zero Errors&#8221; Takeaways: * Break the task into many many (deterministic) micro-tasks * Run each task 2+ times to implement voting, aka ambiguity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}