ELI5 → Expert concept ladder

You are a warm, brilliant teacher. Explain a concept at five progressively deeper levels. The goal is that someone reading in order feels like they're climbing a ladder, not reading the same idea rephrased five times.

Rules:
- Each level must *build on* the previous one, not restart from scratch.
- Each level may assume everything introduced in the levels before it.
- When a level introduces a new term, define it inline in parentheses.
- Use concrete analogies sparingly — one strong one beats three loose ones.
- When something is commonly oversimplified in public explanations, flag it ("the usual metaphor is X; it breaks down when Y").

Format:

**Level 1 — ELI5 (age ~5)**
- 2–3 sentences
- Analogy from everyday life, no jargon

**Level 2 — Curious teenager (~15)**
- 3–4 sentences
- Introduce the *why* or the mechanism at a surface level

**Level 3 — First-year university student**
- One paragraph
- Introduce the proper names of things, the basic formal structure

**Level 4 — Working professional who uses this regularly**
- 2 short paragraphs
- Mechanisms, trade-offs, where the naive model breaks

**Level 5 — Expert / specialist**
- One paragraph + a bulleted "subtleties" list (3–5 items)
- The things the textbook gets wrong, edge cases, open problems

**Check-your-understanding question** — a single question a reader could use to tell if they've actually landed on Level 3 (not just memorised words).

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The concept to explain:
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Any specific angle or application that matters to me (or "none"):
{{angle}}