The Wizard's Lens: Learn to Think Like AI

Edward W. Barnard

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction

AI Techniques Mastered

Becoming the Revolutionizer
The Ping Pong Effect
- Counterintuitive Behavior
- The Missing Piece
- The Underlying Pattern
- Specific Example: Naming the Effect
- How To Use Physical Analogies
- Summary
- Questions for Reflection
Same Skill Different Context
Familiar Techniques Applied Differently
Viewing Differently
Local Memory Refresh
Connecting the Dots
The Attention Mechanism

AI Techniques Discovered and Applied

The Conversation Begins: Discovering Systems Thinking
Refining a Mental Model Through Close Observation
- Two-Part Responses
- Summary
The Breakthrough: Mapping the Apprentice Journey

Accomplishing the Impossible

Take Joy in the Challenge (Part One)
Token Space Management (Part Two)
Doing It Because It Has Never Been Done Before (Part Three)
- Two Esoteric Chapters
- Too Esoteric to be Chapters
- The Pattern Revealed
- Have Fun With the Challenges
- Most Important Lesson
Close Observation Yields Breakthrough Insights

Mastery Independent of Technology

Jolene’s Story
The Mountain
College Spring Break
Planning, Preparation, and Practice
- Guiding Yourself
- Climbing Mount Rainier
- Planning and Preparation
- Visit the Park
- Physical Preparation
- Practice
- Keep Learning
- Transferring Perspective
- Summary
Mastering the Craft
- Deliberate Practice
- Nathaniel Bowditch
- Navigation
- John Harrison
- Extending the Craft
- Summary

Becoming the Revolutionizer

Choosing to Become

The Wizard’s Lens

It’s Not Rocket Science
Engaging With Complex Systems
- Provenance
- Trailing Indicators of Mastery
- Flow With the System
- Core Elements
- Cognitive Transitions
- Time Travel Patterns
- Mindset Elements
- Transforming Constraints to Revolutionary Devices
- Technical Implementation of Constraint Transformation
- The Temporal Dimension of Constraint Transformation
- Practical Application Becomes General Approach
- The Seven Lessons of Mastery
Patterns of Mastery Emerging From Both Humans and AI
- Both Human and AI
- Opposites In Tension With Each Other

Road Map

Appendix A. HPC Tradecraft Road Map
- The 1995 Barrier
- Two Series
- Book 1. HPC Tradecraft for Computer Scientists: What We Stopped Teaching
- Book 2. Nobody but Us: A History of Cray Research and the Building of the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
- Book 3. The Wizard’s Lens: Learn to Think Like AI
- Book 4. High-Stakes Ethics
- Book 5. Unexpected Histories: Spotting Patterns and Making Connections That Others Miss
- Book 6. Constraint-Based Design: A Gateway to AI

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Both Human and AI
Opposites In Tension With Each Other