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Algorithm

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timeless2 connectionsdraft

try possibilities in a smart order instead of all of them

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell issearch × L0. 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 pointSearchPlanning

Unlocks: Planning

How it goes wrong — and what answers that

known failure modes
Combinatorial explosionoptions multiply so fast that brute force stops being possible

Where to read it

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

16Rules All the Way Downact 4 · The First Attempts

Where it comes from

bookArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th ed.)Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig · 2020

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.

Order · 1
must come beforePlanningMechanism
Failure · 1
fails byCombinatorial explosionFailureMode

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