CURRICULUM180 lessons, generated
Every lesson is a program, not a corpus: the episodes below are produced by a unification grammar, so the same episode can be said in any language the engine has a grammar for. This page set carries 64 of them, ordered by the canonical curriculum — lessons are flat, and other curricula order the same lessons differently. The other 2 are a local server away — python scripts/serve_site.py.
lessons180languages here64samples each50languages in the engine66
graphsevery curriculum, drawn: canonical · core170 · supplementary · everything · progressive
canonicalsymbols
L001
symbol grounding
denotation: symbol -> entity
L002
symbol equivalence
many-to-one lexical semantics
L003
symbol discrimination
category boundaries
L004
sequence copy
sequence memory and indexing
L005
next symbol
local statistical regularity
L006
finite state language
stateful syntax / automata induction
L007
context free language
recursion and stack-like state
L008
parse depth
structural decomposition
L009
tree to sequence
realization from structure
L010
variable binding
variable identity vs token identity
L011
unification
structural symbolic matching
canonicalcompositional-semantics
L012
predicate logic
facts + rules -> derived bindings
L013
quantification
generalized quantifiers
L014
scope ambiguity
one string, two logical forms
L015
compositional reference
recursive denotation
L016
spatial language
egocentric and allocentric frames
L017
temporal language
before / after / while / until over a trace
L018
event semantics
participants and times of named events
L019
thematic roles
agent vs patient independent of word order
canonicalpragmatics
L020
instruction following micro
one command, one world update
L021
instruction composition
sequencing, branching, nested conditions
L022
pronoun coreference
resolving a pronoun to its one valid antecedent
L023
discourse state
salience as state across turns
L024
ellipsis
recovering elided structure
L025
presupposition
asserted vs presupposed content under negation
L026
implicature
scalar inference from an explicit speaker policy
L027
speaker listener game
inferring an invented communication code from its use
L028
lexicon induction
acquiring a new language in-episode
L029
grammar induction
inducing a fresh grammar from labelled strings
L030
few shot language learning
a new miniature language per episode
L031
translation
two generated languages, different words and order
L032
paraphrase
semantic equivalence under voice and synonymy
L033
entailment
entailed / contradicted / unknown from premises
L034
knowledge update
assert / correct / retract / hedge
L035
belief state
nested belief that can differ from the truth
L036
question answering
interrogative form -> reasoning operation
L037
question generation
identifying the one missing fact and the question that supplies it
L038
interactive reference
clarify or act: the value of a question
L039
definitions
a novel word defined compositionally, then applied
L040
concept invention
inventing the predicate that compresses examples
canonicalanalogy
L041
analogy
a:b::c:? over a relational structure
L042
causal language
causation vs correlation, decided by intervention
L043
counterfactuals
re-running a structural causal model under a different intervention
L044
planning language
goal to executable plan: the first action of a shortest plan
L045
procedural language
loops, branches and state: executing a described procedure
L046
program synthesis
specification by example to a program in a small DSL
L047
program explanation
the inverse direction: program to description
L048
dialogue game
multi-turn reference repair and shared state
L049
negotiation game
speech acts under private utilities
L050
deception detection
statement content vs truth vs incentive
L051
social convention learning
arbitrary conventions fixed in-episode
L052
document world
multi-passage entity and event reconciliation
L053
compressed language
codes, budgets and unique decodability
L054
noisy channel language
error correction from redundancy
L055
multimodal symbolization
perception symbols carrying uncertainty
L056
open world language
false vs unknown under a closed roster
L057
continual language
lexical drift tracked across generations
L058
language culture
iterated learning through a transmission bottleneck
L059
general language agent
a fresh lesson family and answer alphabet every episode
L060
natural language bridge
an English sentence to the symbolic structure it denotes
canonicalontology
L061
ontology construction
which type hierarchy is consistent with every observation
L062
ontology revision
the minimal revision that restores consistency after an anomaly
L063
ontology alignment
corresponding concepts across two independent ontologies
L064
representation selection
which encoding answers the query in fewest steps
L065
representation invention
which new predicate compresses the corpus most
L066
abstraction ladder
the most specific schema covering every example
L067
conceptual chunking
the macro that removes the most steps from a plan library
canonicalscience
L068
latent rule discovery
infer a hidden law from a trajectory and run it
L069
scientific model induction
select the model that fits, then predict
L070
experimental design
choose the experiment that separates hypotheses
L071
theory comparison
rival theories, identical fit, one held-out datum
L072
falsification
the observation that would refute the law
L073
anomaly resolution
noise, hidden variable, or boundary condition
L074
mechanism discovery
causal mechanism behind observationally equal laws
L075
multiscale modeling
micro dynamics, macro question
L076
emergence discovery
which macrostate is predictively closed
L077
invariance discovery
the transformation a property survives
L078
symmetry reasoning
infer an unseen state from a symmetry group
L079
conservation law discovery
the expression the dynamics leave invariant
L080
dimensional analysis
algebra over symbolic dimensions
canonicalmathematics
L081
mathematical definition learning
a predicate defined by axioms, then decided
L082
conjecture generation
a claim both true in the structure and not already implied
L083
theorem proving
the next rule of a shortest proof in a generated calculus
L084
lemma invention
the intermediate proposition that most shortens a proof
L085
proof compression
factoring a repeated subproof out of a long derivation
L086
proof translation
the same derivation across two renamed calculi
L087
counterexample generation
the small model that refutes a false universal
L088
logic discovery
inducing which inference rules a world licenses
L089
logic selection
choosing the calculus a domain actually obeys
L090
uncertain symbolic reasoning
exact bounds and comparisons over uncertain propositions
L091
default reasoning
defeasible rules, exceptions, and silence
L092
belief revision
the minimal retraction that restores consistency
L093
contradiction tolerance
what conflicting sources still support
canonicalepistemics
L094
source provenance
what is established vs what was merely reported
L095
source reliability learning
conditional, per-domain reliability
L096
argumentation
grounded status of a claim in an attack graph
L097
adversarial argumentation
which thesis survives valid criticism
L098
explanation
audience-relative sufficiency of an explanation
L099
explanation repair
naming the missing prerequisite from a failure report
L100
teaching
the example that most enlarges what a student can derive
L101
curriculum design
ordering learning experiences for another learner
L102
knowledge gap detection
known / inferable / unknown / malformed
canonicalproblem-formulation
L103
problem formulation
recovering objective and constraints from outcomes
L104
problem reformulation
the encoding whose search tree is smallest
L105
decomposition
a subgoal ordering that respects dependencies
L106
hierarchical planning
abstract methods expanded to executable primitives
L107
long horizon projects
the next required step of an interrupted project
L108
resource bounded reasoning
the best operator you can actually afford
L109
anytime reasoning
quality-vs-compute profiles read at a deadline
L110
metareasoning
choosing how to reason, fallbacks included
L111
strategy discovery
inducing the invariant behind a problem family
L112
strategy transfer
the same strategy under wholly renamed symbols
L113
algorithm discovery
identifying a procedure from I/O demonstrations
L114
algorithm analysis
comparing algorithms by exact executed cost
canonicalreflective-computation
L115
recursive self application
a program that transforms programs, applied to itself
L116
metalinguistic reasoning
questions about a grammar: grammaticality and ambiguity, by parsing
L117
language design
choose the language that expresses a task set in fewest symbols
L118
dsl invention
which invented DSL makes the recurring computations shortest
L119
compiler construction
expand nested macros to primitives, then execute
L120
interpreter learning
infer a new language's semantics from demonstrations, then run a held-
canonicalprotocols
L121
protocol discovery
which interaction discipline is consistent with every trace
L122
institution learning
infer a decision rule from roles, votes and outcomes
L123
institution design
which rule makes the target collective outcome an equilibrium
L124
norm reasoning
obligation, permission and prohibition under prioritized conflicting n
L125
contract reasoning
conditional obligations over an event timeline: active, fulfilled, bre
L126
mechanism design
which payment rule meets the objective once agents best-respond
L127
coalition formation
which grouping no subset of agents wants to break
L128
distributed knowledge
which single message makes the group able to answer
L129
collective theory building
merge partially conflicting hypotheses into their consensus
L130
cultural evolution
which symbolic variant survives transmission bottlenecks
canonicalhistory
L131
historical reconstruction
which history is consistent with the present state and all records
L132
narrative modeling
the causally pivotal event, verified by deletion and re-simulation
L133
multi perspective modeling
what an agent believes, given what it was there to see
L134
identity continuity
whether two descriptions denote the same entity under stated identity
canonicalself-modeling
L135
self model
predict a described agent's success from its record
L136
capability estimation
which task exceeds the described agent
L137
self error diagnosis
attribute a failure to the stage that caused it
L138
self repair
the patch that restores competence
L139
architecture selection
cheapest architecture that covers the task
L140
architecture composition
compose typed modules into the cheapest pipeline
L141
tool construction
build the tool that makes the workload cheapest
L142
external memory design
index a symbolic store for its retrieval workload
L143
knowledge refactoring
reorganize a memory without losing a derivable fact
L144
semantic compression
smallest theory that reproduces the observations
L145
minimum description learning
theory length traded against unexplained data
canonicalopen-ended-epistemology
L146
open ended concept discovery
invent the concept that carves the marked set
L147
open ended question generation
ask the question that eliminates the most
L148
research program
next action in a partially resolved question graph
L149
paradigm shift
the assumption a new regime falsifies
L150
world model synthesis
query a world model of containment and events
L151
cross domain unification
the element that corresponds across two domains
L152
theory transfer
apply a source-domain law in an unobserved target domain
L153
formalization
informal claim to formal structure
L154
deformalization
formal structure to the reading that says it
L155
ambiguity preservation
how many readings the evidence leaves open
L156
underspecification reasoning
count what the instruction actually fixes
canonicalvalues
L157
value learning
recover a preference order from observed choices
L158
multi objective reasoning
which option the Pareto front excludes
L159
goal inference
the goal that explains all of the behaviour
L160
goal revision
the goal new evidence makes infeasible
L161
goal generation
the intermediate objective the top goal now requires
L162
reflective goal reasoning
which goal to abandon given derived conflicts
canonicalcivilization-scale
L163
civilization simulator
multi-generation cultural transmission under a stated rule
L164
scientific civilization
cumulative consensus from partial, diffusing evidence
L165
symbolic world builder
which generated world actually demands a named capability
L166
curriculum invention
which curriculum's prerequisite closure reaches a target capability
canonicaltransfer
L167
universal interface transfer
bootstrap states, actions and reward semantics from a trace, then plan
L168
unknown game
infer what is relevant, what moves do, and what payoff means
L169
symbolic generalist
held-out mixture of other lessons, none appearing verbatim
L170
open world research agent
discover, theorize, experiment, revise and report over a long horizon
canonicalsyntax
L171
center embedding
verb of the outermost subject under nesting
L172
comparatives
orderings over numeric attributes
L173
counting quantifier
cardinal and proportional quantifiers
L174
expression eval
compositional evaluation of a nested expression
L175
long range agreement
agreement with the head across attractors
L176
negation
negation and its scope over scene properties
L177
nesting depth compare
comparing two recursive structures
L178
palindrome
mirror symmetry over a whole string
L179
set operations
boolean algebra over property sets
L180
string reversal
indexing into an implied reversed structure