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Using AI

Use AI as a tool for study, coding, search, critique, and testing.

Study loop

  1. Attempt the derivation, solution, or design yourself.
  2. Write what you know and where you are uncertain.
  3. Ask AI for critique, alternatives, implementation help, sources, or adversarial cases.
  4. Check the result with calculation, tests, simulation, measurement, or a primary source.
  5. Reconstruct the important step from memory.

Good uses

  • Generate counterexamples and adversarial tests.
  • Implement a model you can already specify.
  • Find literature, then read the primary source.
  • Run a mock oral defense.
  • Automate repetitive data work with checks.
  • Compare derivations.
  • Analyze errors and failed cases.

Keep under independent review

  • Problem statements.
  • Units and physical constraints.
  • Source provenance.
  • Evaluation criteria.
  • Safety constraints.
  • Final causal and technical claims.