Start with a closed-book baseline
Do not read the full path first.
Attempt the first scored question now. Use the result to decide which later steps need repair. Start first practice- 01
Confirm the research loop
Separate research discussion, coding, math, brainstorm, paper defense, and job-talk expectations.
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Defend a research claim
Separate the central claim from evidence, assumptions, limitations, and the strongest alternative explanation.
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Derive under pressure
Use moments and distributions, state assumptions, check dimensions, and handle one changed condition.
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Keep experiments executable
Implement a core mechanism with correct tensor contracts, tests, and complexity.
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Design discriminating evidence
Control compute and tuning, preserve paired comparisons, and report resampled uncertainty.
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Investigate unknown behavior
Generate competing hypotheses and the smallest probes that separate them.
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Prepare the job talk
Organize the talk around claims, decisions, failed paths, evidence, and future work.
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Show research collaboration
Use a real disagreement and show how evidence changed the decision or your own view.
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Simulate the loop
Run the RS packet with unfamiliar prompts and reduce results to three bounded repairs.
After the core path
Add only the format and subject that recruiting confirmed. Do not add every frontier lab or specialist topic.
Choose one domain supplement · Add the upper-IC level overlay · Check current lab formats · Run the role simulation