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+# Draft: Lecture Conversion (Weeks 6, 7, 9, 10)
+
+## Requirements (confirmed)
+- Convert 10 lectures (L18-L27) from old Marp style to "box-first" gold standard matching L17
+- Old style uses: `paginate: true`, `header:`, `footer:`, `<!-- _class: lead -->`, `<div class="columns">`, `<div class="callout info/tip/warning">`, emojis in titles, Title Case
+- New style uses: exact frontmatter (no paginate/header/footer), box divs (definition-box, note-box, tip-box, example-box, warning-box, important-box), sentence case, no emojis in titles, no multi-column layouts
+- Every lecture: title slide + learning objectives + ... content ... + Questions? slide (exact format)
+- L24 is SPECIAL: currently has RAG content but should be "Agents and Tool Use" — needs NEW CONTENT, not just restyling
+- Batch in waves of 3-4 for quality verification between waves
+- Final step: compile all + commit
+
+## Technical Decisions
+- Compile command: `../template_deck/compile.sh lectureN.md` from week directory
+- Output format: both HTML and PDF (default)
+- No test infrastructure needed — verification is visual (compile success + slide review)
+
+## Lecture Inventory
+
+| Lecture | File | Lines | Week | Topic | Special Notes |
+|---------|------|-------|------|-------|---------------|
+| L18 | slides/week6/lecture18.md | 729 | 6 | BERT Deep Dive | Standard conversion |
+| L19 | slides/week6/lecture19.md | 699 | 6 | BERT Variants | Standard conversion |
+| L20 | slides/week6/lecture20.md | 815 | 6 | Applications of Encoder Models | Standard conversion |
+| L21 | slides/week7/lecture21.md | 776 | 7 | GPT Architecture | Standard conversion |
+| L22 | slides/week7/lecture22.md | 954 | 7 | Scaling Up to GPT-3+ | Standard conversion |
+| L23 | slides/week7/lecture23.md | 996 | 7 | Implementing GPT from Scratch | Heavy code, all in example-boxes |
+| L24 | slides/week9/lecture24.md | 903 | 9 | Agents and Tool Use (currently RAG!) | CONTENT REWRITE needed |
+| L25 | slides/week9/lecture25.md | 836 | 9 | MoE & Efficiency | Standard conversion |
+| L26 | slides/week9/lecture26.md | 921 | 9 | Ethics, Bias, Safety | Standard conversion |
+| L27 | slides/week10/lecture27.md | 432 | 10 | Final Project Work Session | Short, simpler |
+
+## "Up next..." Teasers (confirmed from course schedule)
+
+| Lecture | Teaser for "Up next..." |
+|---------|------------------------|
+| L18 | "BERT variants — RoBERTa, DistilBERT, ALBERT, and how to make BERT better!" |
+| L19 | "Applications of encoder models — real-world NLP with BERT and friends!" |
+| L20 | "GPT architecture — autoregressive generation and the decoder-only transformer!" |
+| L21 | "Scaling up — from GPT-2 to GPT-3, scaling laws, and the rise of ChatGPT!" |
+| L22 | "Implementing GPT from scratch — building a language model step by step!" |
+| L23 | "Week 8 is off — use it to work on your final project! See you in Week 9." |
+| L24 | "Mixture of Experts and efficiency — how to make giant models practical!" |
+| L25 | "Ethics, bias, and safety — the responsible side of language models!" |
+| L26 | "Final project presentations — get ready to show off your work!" |
+| L27 | N/A (last lecture — teaser: "Good luck with your presentations!") |
+
+## Wave Structure (user preference: batches of 3-4)
+- Wave 1: L18, L19, L20 (Week 6 — all BERT, straightforward conversions)
+- Wave 2: L21, L22, L23 (Week 7 — GPT, L23 is code-heavy)
+- Wave 3: L24, L25, L26 (Week 9 — L24 needs new content)
+- Wave 4: L27 + compile all + commit (Week 10 + finalization)
+
+## Final Decisions (from user answers)
+
+### L24 Content Strategy: WRITE FROM SCRATCH
+- Create entirely new content on agents/tool use
+- Topics: function calling, ReAct framework (Yao et al. 2023), Toolformer (Schick et al. 2023), autonomous agents
+- Discard existing RAG content (redundant with L17)
+
+### L27 Teaser: REFLECTIVE CLOSING
+- "That's a wrap! From ELIZA to autonomous agents — what a journey. Good luck on your final projects!"
+
+### Announcements: INCLUDE WHERE APPLICABLE
+- L21: Assignment 4 Due (Feb 16), Final Project Released (Due Mar 9), Assignment 5 Available (Optional/Extra Credit)
+- L23: Week 8 off (no classes Feb 23-27)
+- L27: Final Project Due (Mar 9, 11:59 PM EST)
+
+### Manim Animations
+- Use same approach as L15: generate GIF with manim, process with `gifsicle --no-loopcount`, embed as `![height:500](animations/gifs/filename.gif)`
+- Infrastructure exists in `slides/week5/animations/`
+- Use for complex equation visualizations where appropriate
+
+## Open Questions
+- None remaining — all decisions confirmed
+
+## Scope Boundaries
+- INCLUDE: Convert all 10 lectures to box-first style, compile, commit
+- EXCLUDE: Modifying any already-converted lectures (L1-L17), slides/README.md updates, CI changes