Python
Python vs C++ Procedural Programming Compared
Compare Python vs C++ procedural programming with an interactive simulator. See execution flow, memory handling, and performance differences step-by-step.
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System DesignDatabases
Strong vs Eventual Consistency: Pick Your Trade-off
See the real difference between strong and eventual consistency. Interactive simulator shows how banks and social media make different choices.
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System Design
Distributed Systems Fundamentals: Why, What Breaks, and How
Master distributed systems fundamentals. Learn why we distribute, what breaks, core vocabulary, and trade-offs with interactive visualizations.
12 min read
System DesignDatabases
Replication Topologies: Single-Leader, Multi-Leader, Leaderless
Master database replication patterns. Compare single-leader, multi-leader, and leaderless topologies with interactive visualizations and real-world examples.
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System DesignDatabases
Cascade Failures: How One Service Takes Down Your Entire System
See how one failing service crashes your entire system. Learn the mechanics behind AWS and Facebook outages.
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LeetcodeTwo Pointers
3Sum: Fix One Element, Reduce to Two Sum with Two Pointers
Learn why 3Sum reduces to sorted Two Sum. Interactive visualizer shows how fixing one element and using two pointers drops O(n³) to O(n²).
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LeetcodeTwo Pointers
Trapping Rain Water: Why the Shorter Wall Controls Everything
Learn why water at each bar depends on its tallest neighbors. Interactive visualizer shows how two pointers find trapped water in one pass.
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LeetcodeTwo Pointers
Container With Most Water: The Two-Pointer Pattern That Shrinks O(n²) to O(n)
Learn why the shorter wall limits everything. Interactive visualizer shows how two pointers eliminate entire rows of possibilities in one pass.
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LeetcodeArrays
Next Permutation: Visualizing the Lexicographical Step
See why Next Permutation is about finding the rightmost ascent. Interactive visualizer shows how one scan from the right transforms O(n!) brute force into O(n).
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System DesignScalability
How Instagram Explore Recommends Content to 2B Users
Learn how Instagram Explore uses ML to recommend content. Understand two-tower models, candidate generation, and real-time ranking.
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AIComputer Vision
Hough Transform: Visualizing Line Detection Step by Step
Learn the Hough Transform with our interactive simulator. Understand how edge points vote in parameter space to detect lines in images.
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AIComputer Vision
Image Pyramids: Multi-Scale Processing Visualized
Learn image pyramids with our interactive simulator. Understand Gaussian and Laplacian pyramids for multi-scale image processing and seamless blending.
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AIComputer Vision
Visualizing Optical Flow: How Computers Track Motion
Learn optical flow with our interactive simulator. Understand Lucas-Kanade and Horn-Schunck methods for motion estimation in computer vision.
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AIMath
Gaussian Distribution: Visual Guide & Interactive Calculator
Master the Gaussian distribution with our interactive calculator. Learn the formula, understand the bell curve, and calculate probabilities step by step.
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AIMath
Binomial Distribution: Visual Guide & Interactive Calculator
Master the binomial distribution with our interactive calculator. Learn the formula, explore probability tables, and calculate variance step by step.
9 min read
AIMath
Poisson Distribution: Visual Guide & Interactive Calculator
Learn the Poisson distribution with our interactive calculator. Understand the formula, explore real examples, and master probability calculations step by step.
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AIMath
How to Calculate Probability: Visual Guide & Interactive Calculator
Learn how to calculate probability with our interactive calculator. Master the conditional probability formula and law of total probability step by step.
12 min read
System DesignScalability
How Netflix Deploys to 200M Users Without Downtime
Learn how Netflix deploys code to 200+ million users with zero downtime using blue-green deployment. A deep-dive case study into their deployment architecture.
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System DesignScalability
How Google Tests Changes on 8.5 Billion Daily Searches
Learn how Google safely deploys to billions of users using canary releases. A deep-dive case study into their progressive rollout strategy.
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System DesignDatabases
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
Learn how Discord stores trillions of messages and why they migrated from MongoDB to Cassandra to ScyllaDB. A deep-dive into their database evolution.
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System DesignCaching
How Meta Scaled Memcached to 1 Billion Users
Learn how Facebook scaled Memcached to handle 1 billion users with billions of requests per second. A deep-dive into their distributed caching architecture.
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LeetcodeArrays
Two Sum: The Hash Map Trick That Drops O(n²) to O(n)
See why Two Sum is just an existence check. Interactive visualizer shows how one equation turns O(n²) brute force into O(n) with hash maps.
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System DesignDatabases
How MongoDB Works: A Visual Guide to Document Databases
Learn how MongoDB works from first principles. Interactive simulators for document storage, BSON structure, indexing, and the aggregation pipeline.
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System DesignDatabases
How PostgreSQL Works: Pages, Indexes, MVCC & WAL Explained
See PostgreSQL internals: 8KB pages, B-tree indexes, MVCC concurrency, and WAL durability. Interactive visual guide.
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System DesignDatabases
Database Sharding: Why Single Databases Fail at Scale
See why single databases fail at scale. Interactive guide to sharding strategies with Python implementation.
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System DesignDatabases
Database Replication: How Primary-Replica Keeps Data Safe
See why single databases fail. Interactive guide to primary-replica replication with Python implementation.
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System DesignDatabases
System Design Simulator: Build, Break, and Fix Databases
Interactive SimCity-style simulator where you build and break infrastructure. Add shards, replicas, and watch cascade failures teach you system design.
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PythonQuantum
Quantum vs Classical Computing: See the Difference in a Maze
Visualize how quantum computing differs from classical computing. Interactive maze simulator shows superposition, interference, and wave function collapse.
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AIMath
Matrix Determinant: It's Just the Area of a Parallelogram
The determinant is just the area of the parallelogram formed by the column vectors. Interactive calculator shows how columns create parallelograms.
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AIMath
Eigenvectors Explained: The Axis That Doesn't Move
Understand eigenvectors through the spinning globe analogy. Interactive calculator to find eigenvectors and eigenvalues of any 2x2 or 3x3 matrix.
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AIMath
The $50 Billion Operation: Matrix Multiplication Visualized
Interactive matrix multiplication calculator. Change dimensions, enter values, see step-by-step how each result is computed.
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AIMath
Tensors Explained: From Scalars to High-Dimensional Data
Understand tensors visually: scalar vs vector vs matrix vs tensor. Learn NumPy shape intuition with interactive examples and visualizations.
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PythonOOP
Python's self Keyword: The Invisible Hand Behind Methods
Finally understand Python's self keyword through an interactive puppet theater. Watch the invisible hand connect methods to objects in real-time.
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PythonOOP
Stop Writing Getters and Setters: The @property Magic Trick
See why @property eliminates getters and setters. Interactive vending machine shows Pythonic encapsulation.
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PythonOOP
Python Magic Methods: The Secret Handshakes of Objects
Master Python dunder methods through an interactive social club simulator. Learn __init__, __str__, __repr__, operator overloading, and protocol-oriented programming.
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PythonOOP
Composition Over Inheritance: Build Like Lego, Not Glue
Learn why composition beats inheritance in Python through an interactive robot workshop. Build modular code like Lego bricks, not glued-together messes.
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PythonPandas
Pandas GroupBy: Split-Apply-Combine Finally Makes Sense
See how Pandas groupby works with Split-Apply-Combine. Interactive simulator shows why transform beats apply.
5 min read
PythonPandas
Pandas Memory: Why Your DataFrame is 10x Larger Than Needed
Your DataFrame is 10x larger than needed. See how object vs category and int64 vs int8 waste memory.
9 min read
PythonPandas
Pandas Merge Trap: Why Many-to-Many Joins Explode Your Data
See why Pandas merge creates duplicate rows. Interactive dating app shows the Cartesian product explosion.
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LeetcodeBinary Search
Binary Search: Visualizing Why O(log n) Feels Like Magic
Visualize why O(log n) feels like magic. Watch binary search rip through a phonebook while linear search flips page by page.
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LeetcodeTrees
Level Order Traversal: See BFS Spread Like a Sound Wave
Watch BFS spread like a sound wave while DFS dives like a snake. Interactive visual included.
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LeetcodeRecursion
Why Recursion Burns Your CPU (And How Memoization Fixes It)
Visualize why naive recursion explodes exponentially. Watch memoization turn chaos into order with an interactive Fibonacci simulator.
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LeetcodeArrays
Sliding Window Algorithm: Why O(n²) is Just Bad Memory
Visualize why O(n²) is inefficient through a heat map simulator. Watch brute force burn CPU cycles while sliding window glides smoothly.
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LeetcodeRecursion
Backtracking Explained: Watch the Algorithm Pick a Lock
Visualize backtracking through an interactive lock picker simulator. Watch how state reversibility saves memory while brute force creates infinite universes.
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AIDeep Learning
Attention Mechanism: Why Transformers Remember, RNNs Forget
Visualize why RNNs forget and Transformers remember. Watch attention beams bypass the vanishing gradient problem in real-time.
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AIDeep Learning
Backpropagation: The Blame Game That Trains Neural Networks
Finally understand backpropagation through an interactive blame game simulator. Wiggle weights and watch error change in real-time.
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AIDeep Learning
CNN Explained: Why 9 Parameters Beat 10,000 Connections
See why dense neural networks fail at images. Watch 10,000 connections explode into spaghetti while a 9-parameter CNN filter wins.
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AIDeep Learning
Dropout: Why Killing Neurons Makes Networks Smarter
Visualize why randomly killing neurons makes neural networks smarter. Interactive simulator shows how dropout prevents overfitting.
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NumPyPython
NumPy Reshape vs Transpose: Why One Can't Rotate Images
Finally understand the difference between NumPy reshape and transpose. Interactive ribbon simulator shows why reshape(-1) works but can't rotate images.
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NumPyPython
NumPy Axis: Watch a Hydraulic Press Crush a 3D Array
Finally understand NumPy axis with an interactive hydraulic press simulator. Watch axis=0, axis=1, and axis=2 crush a 3D array in real-time.
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NumPyPython
NumPy Broadcasting: Why 'Cannot Broadcast Together' Happens
See why 'operands could not be broadcast together' happens. Interactive shape-matching simulator shows NumPy broadcasting rules.
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NumPyPython
NumPy vs Python: Why NumPy is 100x Faster (SIMD Explained)
Visualize why NumPy is 100x faster than Python loops. Watch a robot arm vs bulldozer race to finally understand SIMD and vectorization.
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AINLP
Why GPT Can't Count: Visualizing the BPE Tokenization Trap
Interactive visualization of Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization. Discover why GPT thinks 9.11 > 9.9 and watch the tokenizer chop your text in real-time.
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AINLP
Why RNNs Forget: The Telephone Game Problem Explained
Interactive visualization of RNN vs Transformer architecture. See why RNNs forget and how Transformers solve the vanishing gradient problem.
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AINLP
Self-Attention Explained: The Cocktail Party Effect in LLMs
See how LLMs decide which words matter. Interactive Query, Key, Value simulator shows self-attention in action.
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AINLP
Word2Vec Explained: Why 'Good' and 'Great' Became Neighbors
Interactive visualization of Word2Vec and word embeddings. See why good and great were strangers in one-hot encoding but neighbors in vector space.
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AIMachine Learning
Gini Impurity: Why Decision Trees Split Where They Do
Drag points between classes and watch split quality update live. Interactive calculator shows why decision trees split where they do.
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AIMachine Learning
SVM Kernel Trick: Lifting Data Into Higher Dimensions
Interactive SVM kernel trick visualization. Draw non-linear data and watch it get lifted into higher dimensions where a simple line can separate it.
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AIMachine Learning
K-Means Clustering: Why Bad Initialization Traps You
See why K-Means fails with bad initialization. Place centroids and watch the algorithm get trapped in local optima.
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AIMachine Learning
Precision vs Recall: The F1 Score Tradeoff Explained
Drag the threshold slider and watch the confusion matrix update live. See the precision-recall tradeoff in action.
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