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          "title": "What This Course Separates"
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      "source": "## META | difficulty 1 | What This Course Separates\n\nThis course keeps three stories separate on purpose:\n\n- the algebraic purpose of the transform\n- the local in-place butterfly dataflow\n- the Kyber-specific implementation conventions\n\nThe point is to stop those three from collapsing into one blurry \u201cFFT-like thing\u201d.\n"
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          "title": "The Learning Staircase"
        }
      },
      "source": "## MANDATORY | difficulty 2 | The Learning Staircase\n\nThe supported staircase is:\n\n1. schoolbook multiplication and diagonals\n2. cyclic and negacyclic wraparound\n3. direct negative-wrapped NTT and iNTT\n4. fast forward CT butterflies\n5. fast inverse GS butterflies\n6. bit-reversal and ordering\n7. Kyber parameter reality and base multiplication\n8. debugging wrong sign / wrong zeta / wrong order / wrong scale failures\n"
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          "title": "Bundles"
        }
      },
      "source": "## MANDATORY | difficulty 2 | Bundles\n\nEach serious module uses the same rhythm:\n\n- `lecture.ipynb` = slow explanation plus visual demos\n- `lab.ipynb` = prediction before execution\n- `problems.ipynb` = retrieval and reflection\n- `studio.ipynb` = comparison, debugging, and implementation reading\n"
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          "difficulty": 2,
          "kind": "expectation",
          "title": "What \u201cBlunt And Graphical\u201d Means Here"
        }
      },
      "source": "## MANDATORY | difficulty 2 | What \u201cBlunt And Graphical\u201d Means Here\n\nThe notebooks should not ask the learner to imagine too much in their head.\n\nExpect:\n\n- schoolbook product grids\n- wraparound arrows\n- explicit stage arrays\n- stage sliders\n- bit-reversal wire maps\n- side-by-side wrong vs right traces\n"
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          "title": "Next Notebook"
        }
      },
      "source": "## META | difficulty 1 | Next Notebook\n\nNext notebook: `foundations/01_convolution_to_toy_ntt/lecture.ipynb`\n"
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