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Nerdy Stuff

Under the hood explorations. See how AI actually works with interactive visualizations.

Emergence

Simple rules, complex behavior. An interactive essay on cellular automata, synchrony, segregation, highways, and critical cascades.

EmergenceInteractive EssaySimulation
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Game of Life

The interactive cellular automata world that used to run as the site background, now as a standalone playground.

Cellular AutomataVisualizationInteractive
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Embedding Explorer

Visualize how texts cluster in vector space using UMAP. See semantic similarity in action.

EmbeddingsUMAPTransformers.js
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Sentence Surgeon

Click any word to remove it. A small BERT predicts what should fill the gap, ranked with probabilities. Click a prediction to graft it in.

NLPBERTMasked LMInteractive
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Rusenizer

My Turkish-optimized tokenizer. Compare with GPT-4 and see ~45% token savings on Turkish text.

TokenizationNLPTurkish
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Attention Heatmap

SOON

Visualize where transformer models look when processing text. See attention patterns.

AttentionTransformersVisualization

Steering LLMs

SOON

Probe whether concepts can be induced, strengthened, or redirected inside a model with steering and interpretability tools.

LLMInterpretabilitySteering

RuseN-Gram

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My personal N-Gram model. Old school meets new school language modeling.

N-GramClassic ML

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