Animated AI

(animatedai.github.io)

57 points | by frozenseven 4 days ago

8 comments

  • jaredwilber 16 minutes ago
    Years back I worked on some animated ML articles, my favorites being: https://mlu-explain.github.io/neural-networks/ and https://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/
  • jerpint 1 hour ago
    Nice! I made my own version of this many years ago, with a very basic manim animation

    https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2021-03-18-cnn-cheatsheet/

  • sujayk_33 12 minutes ago
    I worked on something similar but specifically for transformer architecture: https://transformer.sujayk.me/
  • mnkv 1 hour ago
    Nice work. A while back, I learned convolutions using similar animations by Vincent Dumoulin and Francesco Visin's gifs

    https://github.com/vdumoulin/conv_arithmetic

  • amkharg26 1 hour ago
    This is a fantastic educational resource! Visual animations like these make understanding complex ML concepts so much more intuitive than just reading equations.

    The neural network visualization is particularly well done - seeing the forward and backward passes in action helps build the right mental model. Would be great to see more visualizations covering transformer architectures and attention mechanisms, which are often harder to grasp.

    For anyone building educational tools or internal documentation for ML teams, this approach of animated explanations is really effective for knowledge transfer.

  • throwaway2027 48 minutes ago
    I don't think these are useful at all. If you implement a simple network that approximates 1D functions like sin or learn how image blurring works with kernels and then move into ML/AI that gave me a much better understanding.
    • barrenko 18 minutes ago
      Yup, I'd say you learn more by doing math by hand (shouldn't be that surprising).
  • wwarner 1 hour ago
    I feel like these are helpful, and I think the calculus oriented visualizations of convex surfaces and gradient descent help a lot as well.
  • sapphirebreeze 23 minutes ago
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