Deepseek and the Strawberry

As the world has been impressed with the engineering that enabled Deepseek-R1, it&rsquo;s also interesting to see the raw thinking process. Unlike OpenAI&rsquo;s O1 where the thinking is hidden behind obfuscation, we can marvel at Deepseek-R1 trying to figure out how many times the letter r appears in the word Strawberry: Alright, so I got this question: &ldquo;How often does the letter r appear…