Mike Bertin

Cryptography

Hermes

Bitcoin built from nothing: the curve, signatures, hashing, mining and wallets, each one a live demo.

open → Language models

Prometheus

A small language model in about 600 lines of C, trained on Shakespeare and writing live in your browser.

open → Operating systems

Kernel

An x86 operating system from the boot sector up, with isolated processes, booting live in your browser.

open → Computer vision

Aegis

A camera-guided turret: detection, tracking and fire control written by hand, with a safety gate enforced in code.

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Astronomy

Orrery

The solar system in real 3D from JPL orbital data. Scrub a century and watch everything move.

open → Astronomy

Proxima

Every star within 5 parsecs of the Sun in 3D. Scrub 80,000 years and watch the neighbours change places.

open → Astronomy and ML

Lynceus

Machine learning on real James Webb galaxies, from a shape classifier to a hunt for Little Red Dots.

open → Physics

Chiron

Three classic simulations: crystals that grow by random walk, magnets that flip and a box of bouncing molecules.

open → Quantum physics

Symbole

Young's double slit, from light plus light making darkness to the quantum puzzle and what it means.

open → Physics and fiction

Talaria

A hundred and five ways to beat light, real and invented, each scored against 29 results from physics that say you can't.

open → Chaos

Eris

Deterministic chaos in three demos, ending with the tumbling of Saturn's moon Hyperion.

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