Tinker“ safety boots and high-visibility” and 16 blanks.
Chapter 3 of 7
Sure words first
One pass guesses every blank. The decoder must choose which guesses to keep; the rest wait for the next pass.
This chapter: Which blanks should a pass stamp first?
About this chapter
You will learn
- What remasking chooses on each pass
- Why keeping the surest guesses works better than random
- Why the frame fills in any order
Words you’ll meet
- Remasking
- Choosing which guesses a pass keeps; the rest go back to blanks for the next pass.
- Surest first
- Keep the guesses with the highest confidence. Papers call it low-confidence remasking.
- Careful fill
- One slot a pass, surest first: the slowest way the toy writes, used here as the yardstick.
Step 1 of 4
Each pass stamps 4 of the 16 blanks, so the reply takes 4 passes. decides which 4 to keep.
Predict first.