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Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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Seam Carving Algorithm
Seam carving in a marimo notebook, by Vincent Warmerdam
From Awesome Explorables
Understanding Comics
"The pedagogical potential of the comic form is vast and mostly untapped" —Bret Victor
From Awesome Explorables
Interactive Introduction To Optical Modulation
From Awesome Explorables
Usenet-Rewind
Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.
From Waxy.org links
Rogue OpenAI agents using public wikis as message boards
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.
Something different
Inflight Simulator
Fly to every country as a passenger. Completed flights collect country flags automatically, even while you’re away.
From Waxy.org links
Biological Neural Networks
a (very technical) interactive guide to modeling neurons
From Explorable Explanations
Velocity Raptor
a game about relativity, and moving near the speed of light
From Explorable Explanations
30 Minutes with a Stranger
Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change.
Something different
STEM Probes
Explore data and build apps seamlessly with marimo, a next-generation Python notebook.
Something different
Mindstorms
"mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas", an influential 1980 book by seymour papert
From Awesome Explorables
Entropy Explained, With Sheep
An explorable blog post about entropy, with sheep.
From Awesome Explorables
GPS - Global Positioning System
A detailed interactive explanation on how the Global Positioning System works.
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