Netviz

This is a work in progress.

The goal of this project is to build a tool for understanding how neural networks work without having to do any kind of symbol manipulation. I feel that I’m able to much more deeply understand the way something works if I have access to a visual isomorphism that I can play with. Inspired a little bit by Bret Victor.

This project is a direct descendant of a demo in Karpathy’s ConvnetJS library.

TODO

• come up with a good way to visualize the gradient/training steps
• so much refactor
• flesh out the explanation/tutorial
  • combine symbolic and graphical representations?
  • talk about biological motivation?
  • talk about philosophical motivation?