Episode 06 / Written companion

Customer recording track

RMA in my own JAX sim, and a throw

A privileged teacher, a history-only student and a new reward that throws a ping-pong ball, all in the sim you wrote.

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

Put the idea to work

Adaptation without knowing the physics

Train a privileged policy with PPO across thousands of randomized arms, then distill what it knew into an adaptation module that reads only the 50-step history. Compare it with Variant B and the Module 3 EKF, and reuse the same trainer to throw a ball into a cup.

Build module 05