Links

Deep learning researcher; blog plus the 'Zero to Hero' neural nets course, built from scratch.

Visual, intuition-first essays on neural nets; founder of Distill and Anthropic interpretability.

Neural networks book, quantum computing, and essays on memory and explanation.

Interactive ML research journal; on hiatus since 2021, but a worthwhile archive.

Clear, practical writing on LLMs and ML; 'Ahead of AI' and build-from-scratch books.

Prolific notes on LLM tooling and prompt engineering; creator of Datasette and llm.

The Illustrated Transformer and friends; gold standard for visual NLP/LLM explainers.

Rigorous long-form technical surveys (RL, diffusion, agents, hallucination).

AlphaGo/MuZero co-author, now at Anthropic; sharp posts on RL and AI progress.

ML engineering from the trenches; 'What are embeddings' and candid notes on the field.

Applied ML and recsys patterns, MLOps, and how to operate as a practitioner in industry.

ML systems design and production; author of 'Designing ML Systems' and 'AI Engineering'.

Mathematical physics, category theory, and the long-running Azimuth notes.

Grant Sanderson's animated math (linear algebra, calculus, neural nets); peak visual intuition.

Amit Patel's interactive explanations of game-dev algorithms (A*, hex grids, noise).

Approachable, often hand-drawn explanations of systems, networking, and debugging.

Beautifully written reverse-engineering deep dives into classic game engines.

The classic CS text in a beautifully typeset, readable HTML edition.

Playful explorable games-as-essays on social systems, trust, and mental health.

Research and interactive charts on global development, health, and the environment.

Explained Visually; short interactive explainers (PCA, Markov chains, probability).

Interactive masterclasses on how things work (gears, GPS, the eye, light).

The essays that defined explorable explanations and dynamic media.

Visual essays that argue ideas through data journalism and rich interaction.

Interactive, design-led data explorations across sports, economics, and society.

D3's creator; 'Visualizing Algorithms' and canonical interactive viz essays.

Interactive essays on data, design, and tools for thought.

Gorgeous, hand-crafted data art and D3 work.

Steven Halim's animated walkthroughs of data structures and algorithms; still maintained.

Daniel Shiffman's interactive book on simulating natural systems in code.

WebGL portfolio you drive around in a toy car; creator of Three.js Journey.

Deep, beautiful frontend articles on shaders, React Three Fiber, and WebGL.

Ricardo Cabello, creator of Three.js; creative-coding experiments.

Raymarching, SDFs, and the math behind Shadertoy, explained generously.

A personal site redesigned yearly as ambitious pure-CSS art.

Delightful, interactive frontend tutorials on a beautifully built site.

Cutting-edge web animation and UI technique tutorials with live demos.

Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe's interactive, gentle guide to fragment shaders.

Tim Urban's long, stick-figure-illustrated deep dives on big questions.

Piero Scaruffi's vast, opinionated archive on music, film, science, and history.

Randall Munroe's webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Illustrated essays on digital gardens, tools for thought, and anthropology.

Sprawling, rigorous long-form research with a famously distinctive site design.

Public working notes on memory, spaced repetition, and effective learning.

A Nobel laureate's eccentric, self-hosted physics curriculum, with opinions to match.

A blunt manifesto and a serious, no-nonsense reading list for learning to code.

An indie search engine built to surface the small, non-commercial, text-heavy web.

Kicks Condor's hand-curated directory of wonderful, weird corners of the web.