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Theory is great, but have you ever poked a neural network with a stick? New lab every Sunday.

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LAB #1intermediate

Understanding Backpropagation

Step through forward & backward passes interactively — watch gradients flow through every node.

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LAB #2beginner

Gradient Descent Visualized

Watch a ball roll downhill on a loss surface — drag the starting point to see how optimization really works.

5 minPlay
intermediate

Backpropagation Playground

Step through forward pass, backward pass, and weight updates in a neural network or CNN — watching the math unfold at every step.

10–15 minPlay
intermediate

Interactive CNN Builder

Upload custom images and snap together CNN blocks dynamically to build your own feature extraction pipeline.

10–15 minPlay
beginner

CNN Layer Explorer

See what a CNN sees at every layer. Pass an image through a convolutional neural network and visualize feature maps, activations, and pooling.

5–10 minPlay

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