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Objective

Reward

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a single number saying how well things just went

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isact × L4. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointRewardReinforcement learning

Unlocks: Reinforcement learning

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

01What Is Intelligence, Really?act 0 · The Core Question

Where it comes from

bookReinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2nd ed.)Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto · 2018

Every connection

All 2 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

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Contrast · 1
trades off withExplorationMechanism

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