explorable-explanation

An explorable, zoomable picture of how the internet works: from Wi‑Fi to the fibre under the sea, today and in 1995.

The paper that remembers itself — Hopfield 1982, running live: rub out any part of the paper and watch it rebuild itself.

A map of the places gradient descent gets stuck, and the ways it gets out. Interactive loss surfaces from the optimization literature, each citing its sources.

La Alegría 🇦🇷 — a bilingual (EN/ES) interactive explorable explanation of Argentina's 2026 World Cup run: refereeing & FBI-probe gossip examined honestly, with three sims, an LLM chat over the compiled research, and a self-grading re-run loop. Astro + TypeScript.

Interactive explanations of backend systems. Kafka, by behaviour: dual writes, partitions, rebalances, offsets and dead letters — simulated in the browser.

Interactive primer on coupled thermo–hydro–mechanical processes in porous media — nine chapters, every figure solved live in the browser.

An interactive acoustics plate: build a note out of sixteen sine waves and hear why a clarinet isn't a violin. No runtime dependencies.

There's never the same wave twice — an interactive field guide to ocean waves and tides.

Where You Are — an explorable explanation of how GPS actually finds you. Hand-written WebGL2, zero dependencies, no build step.

Why the London Millennium Bridge wobbled. Open it in a browser: a crowd walking out of step makes the deck run away anyway, because people leaning against a moving floor are a shock absorber wired backwards. Toggle to the storybook synchrony mechanism and watch it need a different crowd.

Why VPN appliances are the main way ransomware gets into Japanese organizations (61 of 92 known entry routes in 2025, NPA): statistics, real cases, 31 exploited VPN flaws. EN / 日本語.

Compose two concurrent transactions, step through them, and watch the anomaly your isolation level allows.

Interactive explainers for React: step-through players, guided tours, scroll lessons and glossary tooltips, all on one cursor.

An interactive essay on what happens when an apex predator is removed from an ecosystem — through alpha-gal, lone star ticks, and Lotka–Volterra dynamics.

An interactive essay: how a language model thinks, how a brain remembers, and why the honest comparison flatters neither.

See exactly how LLMs work: an interactive guide with a tiny transformer in your browser where every number can be checked.

Sixteen interfaces that only exist above a million tokens per second. Nothing here runs a model: the text is hand-written, and every duration is arithmetic on a rate you drag yourself.