This report documents the results of the "No Reading" Experiment Exam.
Grading was conducted by two independent personas to provide a balanced perspective on the student's
mastery.
Lenient Mentor: A
"Fantastic intuitive grasp."
Strict Professor: B-
"Sloppy terminology, but understands the
mechanism."
Detailed Breakdown
Q1: The Foundation (Hairy Green Ball)
Answer: Humans think better with realistic images... math symbols are for convenience.
🟢 Lenient Mentor (A+):
"Beautifully put. You captured the core philosophy: We need cognitive bridges because our brains are
parallel."
🔴 Strict Professor (B-):
"Missed the technical distinction between Serial and Parallel processing. Focused only on the 'visual'."
Q2: Backpropagation (Sensitivity)
Answer: High sensitivity. Turn it less, or not at all.
🟢 Lenient Mentor (A):
"Spot on. High sensitivity = High Gradient = Be careful."
🔴 Strict Professor (A-):
"'Turn it less' is correct. 'Not at all' is dangerous—that causes Vanishing Gradient."
Q3: Tokens (Hamburger)
Answer: Statistical frequency. Hamburger is frequent... misspelling is infrequent.
🟢 Lenient Mentor (A+):
"Perfect. Correctly identified Frequency and Efficiency as drivers."
🔴 Strict Professor (A):
"Correct."
Q4: Non-Linearity (Hedgehog)
Answer: If X > 0, log x... straight or left... encircle the data.
🟢 Lenient Mentor (A):
"Intuitively grasped the hardest concept! 'Encircle the data' is exactly the right visual."
🔴 Strict Professor (C):
"Sloppy notation. It is ReLU (x), not log x. `log 0` is undefined. You butchered the math."
Q5: Attention (Butler)
Answer: Model learns multiple different contextual connections...
🟢 Lenient Mentor (B):
"Got the gist—it looks for different contexts. Directionally correct."
🔴 Strict Professor (C-):
"Too vague. Failed to distinguish Semantic vs Episodic memory."
Q6: Loss & Overfitting
Answer: Overfitting. It hasn't learned, it has memorized.
🟢 Lenient Mentor (A+):
"Textbook definition."
🔴 Strict Professor (A):
"Correct."
Q7: Tool Use (The Invisible Pen)
Answer: Model assesses query... checks tools... pauses...