Perplexity

AI

model visualization

SHOW HN2023

153points
11comments
#406of 3,109 in 2023
Top 14%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.

Idea: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Helpful for building intuition about how LMs predict text

    From 2 comments
    • There's a video of a previous version of this tool here which I found really helped me understand what it was demonstrating:…
      simonw on HN
    • This is beautiful. Needs to be a standard tool for all models. Great work!
      thomasfromcdnjs on HN
  • Runs entirely in the browser

    From 1 comment
    • There's a video of a previous version of this tool here which I found really helped me understand what it was demonstrating:…
      simonw on HN

Objections

  • Red and green highlights are hard to distinguish for colour-blind users

    From 1 comment
    • The highlights being very similar in red and green is a complete nightmare for me because I have deuteranopia. You should probably fix that.
      netipulk on HN
  • Runs on page load, which is bad for mobile users

    From 1 comment
    • I’m sure it’s neat but it shouldn’t start running on load, because some people are browsing on mobile.
      skybrian on HN

Requests

  • Llama 2 support

    From 1 comment
  • Attention visualization

    From 1 comment
    • It would be interesting to have attention visualized as well, similar to how it's done in BertViz: https://github.com/jessevig/bertviz
      atgctg on HN
  • Analysis of user's own text

    From 1 comment
    • Can you analyse your own text since the model has been downloaded to client?
      davotoula on HN

Questions

  • Whether predictability matches human sense of information density

    From 1 comment
    • Really interesting! I wonder how well this syncs up with human intuition and general “information density”. If it’s a close match, maybe you could use this as a tool to help with…
      didgeoridoo on HN

Alternatives named

  • BertViz

    From 2 comments
    • It would be interesting to have attention visualized as well, similar to how it's done in BertViz: https://github.com/jessevig/bertviz
      atgctg on HN
    • I really enjoyed playing with BertViz. Another similar visual exploration tool I found recently is in Edwin Chen's blog. I am pretty sure this is the best explanation of LSTM. I…
      isaacfung on HN
  • TensorFlow Playground

    From 1 comment
    • I really enjoyed playing with BertViz. Another similar visual exploration tool I found recently is in Edwin Chen's blog. I am pretty sure this is the best explanation of LSTM. I…
      isaacfung on HN

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