Operator card
The compressed protocol. Not the neural glossary.
Educational and cognitive experiments, not clinical trials. The twenty-minute block installs a candidate schema. Spacing decides whether it survives. Form is not parameters.
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Start from structure
Never from shared vocabulary. Map relations and systematicity, not attributes.
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Compare two sources
A single favorite analog is the weak condition. Two sources that share R and not surface leave the invariant.
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Kill extraneous load
No dual jargon streams in the first five minutes. Strip nouns; keep predicates.
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One diagram, one equation
Do not narrate the diagram in on-screen prose. Dual coding adds routes; it does not raise Cowan’s four chunks.
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Force why, then the break list
At least three places M is not an isomorphism — units, feedback sign, agency, timescale, conservation. If you cannot name a break, you are still surface-matching.
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Worked → faded → unaided
In that order. Means-ends solving as the first move in a new domain is the load error.
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Closed-note retrieval in target language
Stage 4 is immediate retrieval, not spacing. Hide the source. Sixty to ninety seconds, notes closed.
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Put spacing on the calendar
+1 day, +3 days, +7 days, always in target-native terms. The twenty minutes only install a candidate schema.
It will compress orientation when you already own a dense graph. It will not create expertise, substitute for target-domain feedback, or transfer quantitative constants. Ohm does not give you the coefficient on capital controls. Poiseuille’s r⁴ does not give you order-book depth elasticity.