<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://voidwalker-m.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://voidwalker-m.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-06-22T03:10:16+00:00</updated><id>https://voidwalker-m.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Yaxin Ma</title><subtitle>Yaxin Ma — Ph.D. student at the University of Florida working on trustworthy LLMs and agents, evaluation, and uncertainty quantification.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">How I Think About Agents Thinking</title><link href="https://voidwalker-m.github.io/articles/2026/06/21/how-i-think-about-agents-thinking/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="How I Think About Agents Thinking" /><published>2026-06-21T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-21T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://voidwalker-m.github.io/articles/2026/06/21/how-i-think-about-agents-thinking</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://voidwalker-m.github.io/articles/2026/06/21/how-i-think-about-agents-thinking/"><![CDATA[<p>This is an example article so you can see how a post looks. To publish your own,
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push it to GitHub — the site rebuilds automatically.</p>

<h2 id="the-front-matter">The front matter</h2>

<p>Every article starts with a small block of metadata between <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">---</code> lines:</p>

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show up as small labels.</p>

<h2 id="writing-the-body">Writing the body</h2>

<p>Below the front matter, just write <strong>Markdown</strong>. You get headings, lists, links,
quotes, and code for free.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>An agent that can explain <em>why</em> it chose an action is worth more than one that
simply chose well.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>A few things Markdown gives you:</p>

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  <li><strong>Bold</strong> and <em>italic</em> text</li>
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  <li>Ordered and unordered lists</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="what-goes-here">What goes here</h2>

<p>This is the place for my notes and essays on how agents reason — planning, tool
use, reflection, and the gap between what an agent does and what it can explain.
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