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Re:A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning on Sunday March 15, 2026 @03:14PM (#47390834)
2015 was about the last year you could get away with publishing an interactive graphic with a fixed width — this made it harder do really creative/original work.
Re:A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:50PM (#47389872)
https://visxai.io/ has a bunch more too — see the Hall of Fame section at the bottom for some of the highlights.

I also made a dozen of these a couple years ago, my two favorites:

- https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/fill-in-the-blank/

- https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/grokking/

Re:Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:10PM (#44130430)
It can be! Here's a circuit showing how the model processes "PCB tracing stands for" to output "printed":

https://www.neuronpedia.org/gemma-2-2b/graph?slug=pcb-tracin...

Re:.localhost Domains on Thursday April 10, 2025 @11:56AM (#43645208)
Browsers won't use http2 unless https is on — chrome only allows six concurrent requests to the same domain if you're not using https!
Re:Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time on Monday August 14, 2023 @03:21PM (#37125589)
There's also https://lmql.ai/
Re:Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize? on Thursday August 10, 2023 @11:24AM (#37077358)
Basically just a bunch of d3 — could be cleaned up significantly, but that's hard to do while iterating and polishing the charts.

I also have a couple of little libraries for things like annotations, interleaving svg/canvas and making d3 a bit less verbose.

- https://github.com/PAIR-code/ai-explorables/tree/master/sour...

- https://1wheel.github.io/swoopy-drag/

- https://github.com/gka/d3-jetpack

- https://roadtolarissa.com/hot-reload/

Re:AI Homework on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:38PM (#33871566)
Here's an example of that with a smaller BERT model: https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/fill-in-the-blank/
Re:Show HN: Static blog generator in about 1 KLOC on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:15PM (#24812392)
Mine is 60 lines of js; the markdown library does most of the work.

https://roadtolarissa.com/literate-blogging/

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