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    <description>Long-form writing on behavior analysis and AI by David M. Cole.</description>
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      <title>The field that taught machines to learn</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Behavior analysis, artificial intelligence, and the cost of not building. Reinforcement learning traces back to Thorndike and Skinner. The people building modern AI know this. Behavior analysis has not made that lineage central to its own account of AI — and outsiders are building the measurement layer around autism care without it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Context and Persistence</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The real AI skill is not prompting. It is designing the working context around the model. What we call persistence is really scheduled context loading.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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