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Summary

  • Add ch-07 (符号与联结 / Symbols & Connectionism) to the mental-models series — 6 articles + index, bilingual (ZH + EN independently written)
  • Core thesis: symbolic and connectionist representations are irreducible; the harness is the translation layer between them; translation has structural costs distributed along a tension axis (constraint strictness vs. generative freedom)
  • Ingest ~20 new wiki pages (Kautz, Fodor & Pylyshyn, Newell & Simon, Park et al., Gurnee & Tegmark, Othello-GPT cluster, RANLP trajectory bias, OpenAI/Anthropic structured outputs)
  • Generate 50 new/refreshed wiki infograph cards (28 missing concepts + 12 missing entities + 10 stale)

Articles

# ZH EN Core
01 两条路 Two Roads Irreducible capabilities of symbols vs neural nets
02 奇怪的中间物 The Strange Hybrid LLM's representational duality
03 翻译层 The Translation Layer Naming the harness as neuro-symbolic bridge
04 翻译的代价 The Cost of Translation Five structural impedance mismatches
05 张力轴 The Tension Axis Constraint strictness vs generative freedom
06 符号与联结之道 The Dao Resonance with cybernetics, entropy, fractals, causality

Review & verification

  • Opus editorial review (writing rules, claim verification, cross-document consistency)
  • 6 independent fact-check agents (one per article, web-search verified)
  • All critical/important issues fixed (Deep Blue, CFG vs FSM, author attributions, source separation, OWASP reframing)
  • ZH + EN strict build: 0 warnings

Test plan

  • uv run mkdocs build --strict -f mkdocs.zh.yml — passes
  • uv run mkdocs build --strict -f mkdocs.en.yml — passes
  • Visual review of article cards in browser
  • Cross-chapter link verification in rendered site

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Six-article chapter revealing the structural relationship between
symbolic and connectionist representations in harness engineering:

- 01 Two Roads: irreducible capabilities of symbols vs neural nets
- 02 The Strange Hybrid: LLM's representational duality
- 03 The Translation Layer: naming the harness as neuro-symbolic bridge
- 04 The Cost of Translation: five structural impedance mismatches
- 05 The Tension Axis: constraint strictness vs generative freedom
- 06 The Dao: structural resonance with cybernetics, entropy, fractals, causality

Also includes:
- Wiki ingestion of ~20 new source/concept/entity pages (Kautz, Fodor,
  Newell & Simon, Park et al., Gurnee & Tegmark, Othello-GPT cluster,
  RANLP trajectory bias, OpenAI/Anthropic structured outputs)
- 50 new/regenerated wiki infograph cards (28 concepts + 12 entities + 10 stale)
- Fact-checked by 6 independent verification agents; all issues resolved

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@PanQiWei PanQiWei merged commit 44bc827 into main Apr 19, 2026
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