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The Thinking Machine

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An interactive essay tracing artificial intelligence from symbolic systems in 1972 to the agent era, while explaining neural networks, transformers, training, labs, and compute infrastructure.

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This is unusually ambitious educational material: its explanations are paired with working browser demonstrations, including a neural network that trains through real backpropagation and a gradient-descent visualisation. It also offers the full experience in French.

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Lunch Through the Bee Veil

August 11’s newborn domains include a bee veil with a lockable lunch flap, a book designed to unfold over ten years, a Colombian missing-person and aid board, and a brick studio made by a dad and his 10-year-old co-founder.

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