Interactive Explainers

Generating interactive explainers on interesting topics using AI, inspired by the beautiful explainers.blog. Because you don't really understand something until you can play with it.

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Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

Your language model is secretly a reward model. Explore how DPO eliminates reinforcement learning from alignment with a single elegant equation.

Feb 23, 2026

Attention Is All You Need

A visual, interactive guide to the Transformer paper that replaced recurrence with attention and changed modern AI.

2017

BERT: The Bidirectional Revolution

See how masked language modeling and bidirectional context reshaped NLP benchmarks overnight.

2018

Scaling Laws for Language Models

Explore the power laws that predict performance from model size, data, and compute.

2020

RoPE: Rotary Position Embeddings

Understand how rotary embeddings encode position through elegant geometric rotations.

2021

Chinchilla: Compute-Optimal Training

Learn why training smaller models on more tokens can beat larger under-trained models.

2022

LLaMA: Open Foundation Models

Dive into the design decisions that made LLaMA efficient, open, and highly influential.

2023

GPT-3: Few-Shot Learners

Explore how scale unlocked in-context learning and changed the direction of language models.

2020