Very long illustrated essays on artificial intelligence, procrastination and the Fermi paradox, drawn in deliberately bad stick figures.
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Wait But Why sits in Interactive Explainers under Learn, and we have it filed as rabbit hole — clear your evening. we warned you. It reads as brainy and funny.
Explainers that use motion, interaction and scrolling to teach what a paragraph never could. The clearest teaching on the internet lives here.
Grant Sanderson's maths lessons, plus the written versions of the animations that made linear algebra look like geometry.
Engineering essays with live diagrams you drag — gears, lenses, GPS, sound — each the clearest thing ever written on its subject.
Maths explained by intuition first and formulas second, by someone who clearly resented how he was taught it.
Machine learning journal where every paper is an interactive diagram; publication has stopped, the back catalogue has not aged.
The hub for playable posts — effectively the index for the entire genre of learn-by-fiddling essays.
Every part of a wristwatch exploded and animated in sequence, until the escapement finally makes sense.
Drag mildly biased shapes around a grid and watch a segregated neighbourhood assemble itself without anyone intending it.
A quantum computing textbook with spaced repetition built into the page, so what you read has a chance of staying.