Adjacent ideas worth recognizing
A broad map has room for ideas outside the main serving path. Go deeper when the workload makes them relevant.
Causality and uncertainty
Learn why predicting an outcome is different from predicting an intervention.
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Search and control
Recognize symbolic planning, black-box optimization, and physical decision-making.
New sequence and generation families
Ask what information the model stores and how many steps it needs to produce a result.
Interpretability and scientific judgment
An explanation is a hypothesis to test, not automatic proof of a causal mechanism.