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Lovely visualization. I like the very concrete depiction of middle layers "recognizing features", that make the whole machine feel more plausible. I'm also a fan of visualizing things, but I think its important to appreciate that some things (like 10,000 dimension vector as the input, or even a 100 dimension vector as an output) can't be concretely visualized, and you have to develop intuitions in more roundabout ways.

I hope make more of these, I'd love to see a transformer presented more clearly.

For the visual learners, here's a classic intro to how LLMs work: https://bbycroft.net/llm

- while impressive, it still doesnt tell me why a neural network is architected the way it is and that my bois is where this guy comes in https://threads.championswimmer.in/p/why-are-neural-networks...

- make a visualization of the article above and it would be the biggest aha moment in tech

The original Show HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44633725

Super cool visualization Found this vid by 3Blue1Brown super helpful for visualizing transformers as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M&t=1198s

This Welch Labs video is very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7hirqgfuU

This is just scratching the surface -- where neural networks were thirty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST_database

If you want to understand neural networks, keep going.

I like the style of the site it has a "vintage" look

Don't think it's moire effect but yeah looking at the pattern

Nice work

I love this visual article as well:

https://mlu-explain.github.io/neural-networks/

Oh wow, this looks like a 3d render of a perceptron when I started reading about neural networks. I guess essentially neural networks are built based on that idea? Inputs > weight function to to adjust the final output to desired values?

Spent 10 minutes on the site and I think this is where I'll start my day from next week! I just love visual based learning.

Great explanation, but the last question is quite simple. You determine the weights via brute force. Simply running a large amount of data where you have the input as well as the correct output (handwriting to text in this case).

This visualizations reminds me of the 3blue1brown videos.

Nice visuals, but misses the mark. Neural networks transform vector spaces, and collect points into bins. This visualization shows the structure of the computation. This is akin to displaying a Matrix vector multiplication in Wx + b notation, except W,x,and b have more exciting displays.

It completely misses the mark on what it means to 'weight' (linearly transform), bias (affine transform) and then non-linearly transform (i.e, 'collect') points into bins

I get 3fps on my chrome, most likely due to disabled HW acceleration

As someone who does not use Twitter, I suggest adding RSS to your site.

Great visualization!

very cool stuff