Episode 05 / Written companion

Customer recording track

Building the history encoder

Causal timestamps, held-out arms and the right observation channels matter as much as the network.

Read the companion now. The recording is forthcoming; “Customer” identifies its planned release track.

Put the idea to work

Answer B, built

Train one history encoder on four objectives and let a linear probe judge them. Objective B predicts how the real arm departs from the nominal model 0.1 s ahead, and its latent should reveal m/kₜ, the payload mass relative to the torque constant.

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