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Summary

Closes #792 — the svd_intro lecture's "The Setting" section (section 5.2) overuses bold formatting, with 11 bold phrases across ~13 sentences and "singular value decomposition" bolded 3 times repeatedly.

This PR reduces the bold count in that section from 11 to 6 by:

  • Removing bold from "data" (line 37): A common term that doesn't need typographic emphasis.
  • Removing bold from "patterns" (line 55): A common term that doesn't need emphasis in context.
  • Removing bold from "singular value decomposition" (lines 55, 59): Already bolded on first use in the section (line 51); repeating the bold on subsequent mentions adds visual noise without aiding comprehension.
  • Removing bold from "principal components analysis" (line 55): Already introduced with bold in the Overview section (line 25).

Bold is preserved for:

  • First-use introductions of key terms: individual, random variable, short and fat, tall and skinny, singular value decomposition (first occurrence)
  • dynamic mode decomposition — its first appearance in the body text

Principle applied

Bold only on first introduction of a term; avoid re-bolding terms the reader has already encountered.

Test plan

  • Verify the rendered lecture reads naturally without excessive emphasis
  • Confirm key terms are still bolded on first use for discoverability

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Closes #792

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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