Kat the Poet Engineer animates Hopfield network with bird flock
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Kat the Poet Engineer created an 8-second visualization of a Hopfield network trained on the alphabet. Each neuron appears as a bird whose collective murmuration patterns demonstrate distributed memory storage and retrieval. The animation adjusts a temperature parameter to show real-time associative recall as scattered silhouettes reform into complete shapes while red and blue particles expand or contract on a wireframe grid to reflect the underlying weight matrix.
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#150David Pfau@PFAU
#150David Pfau@PFAUNeural network visualization has come a long way since Hinton diagrams.
Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer@poetengineer__making each neuron in the hopfield network a bird: store a memory and the flock splits/coalesces based on their weight matrix. memory = murmury.
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