Interactive companions to the blog
Interactive Artifacts
Visualizations and explorable explainers about attention, language models, perception and the way minds work. Each one pairs with an essay on The Curious Intersection.
- Explainer
Understanding Neural Attention Mechanisms
This visualization demonstrates how neural networks distribute attention differently depending on context, showing how the same word can have different connections based on surrounding terms.
- Explainer
Understanding Tensor Dimensions: From Scalars to 5D and Beyond
An interactive explorer that helps visualize the concept of tensor dimensionality through different metaphors, showing how each added dimension exponentially increases information capacity.
- Explainer
The Three-Ring Cognitive System: How Our Minds Reconfigure Across Contexts
This interactive visualization demonstrates how analytical thinking, emotional intelligence, and body wisdom dynamically reconfigure across different mental contexts.
- Data visualization
Words as Math: The Shape of Meaning
Transform invisible word relationships into a 3D galaxy of meaning you can explore with your hands, showing how computers understand language by positioning similar words closer together and demonstrating that words can be added and subtracted like numbers to reveal surprising semantic connections.
- Explainer
Assisted Reflection: Mind Mirrors and Digital Echoes
An interactive decision tree guide to help individuals determine when AI-assisted reflection is appropriate for mental health support versus when other resources are needed.
- Simulator
Why Can't We Find Addresses With The Radio On?
This interactive visualization demonstrates how music affects cognitive load and visual processing while driving.
- Explainer
What's a Token? The Building Blocks of AI Language
This interactive visualization demonstrates how AI language models process text through tokens, showing tokenization patterns, prediction narrowing, and multilingual differences in a hands-on explorable interface.
- Data visualization
The Social Skin of Everyday Objects
Explore how we create invisible boundaries between our work and personal lives with this interactive visualization.
- Simulator
Time Warp Visualizer
Explore how time perception changes under different conditions with this interactive visualization.
What are Curious Artifacts?
Small interactive tools for thinking with. Instead of reading about an idea, you adjust it, break it and watch what changes — making abstract concepts concrete.
Explainers
Step-by-step demonstrations that break a complex concept into parts you can inspect.
Simulators
Models of a process you can run under different conditions to see how it behaves.
Data visualizations
Interactive charts and spaces for exploring patterns and relationships.