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Nerdy Stuff

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

Emergence

Live

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

EmergenceInteractive EssaySimulation

Game of Life

Live

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

Cellular AutomataVisualizationInteractive

Optimization

Live

One interactive lab for gradient descent, black-box search, and why high-dimensional optimization breaks the 2D cartoon.

OptimizationInteractive Essay3D

Embedding Explorer

Live

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

EmbeddingsUMAPTransformers.js

Temperature Playground

Live

Explore how temperature shapes LLM output. See token probabilities, branching paths, and the creativity dial in action.

LLMSamplingTemperatureInteractive

Rusenizer

Live

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

TokenizationNLPTurkish

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

Soon

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

N-GramClassic ML
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