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FM synthesis

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In FM synthesis, one oscillator modulates another to change its spectrum. The connection to explore-exploit in the post is an analogy, not the same algorithm: a bandit learns from rewards, while an oscillator does not evaluate whether a sound is better. Keep the shared intuition and the boundary together.

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