Free computing, AI & safety lessons
Explore computing and AI
through practical experiments.
Change an input, follow its effect, and use what you learn to make something of your own.
12 open modules / No coding experience / No account or API key
Inside a prediction
How context changes a prediction
Compare "The river bank is" with "The savings bank is". Inspect the calculations and see how the probabilities for the next word change.
Explore the tensor cubeOpen the calculation
Move between the 3D view, readable tables and exact arithmetic. A small model with hand-designed teaching weights runs on your device; no account or model download needed.
New decision lab / Monte Carlo
Design a voyage and test its futures
Change the weather and cargo rewards, compare thousands of possible trips, and keep a repeatable experiment. Find out why more samples cannot repair a wrong forecast.
Explore the harbor simulationYour rules change the decision
This simulation runs on your device. Inspect individual trips, compare their averages with exact answers, and download your experiment. Built with AI assistance; no live model or API key needed.
A practical AI safety investigation
Should you trust the package an AI suggests?
Inspect a fictional package, compare its name and publisher with the intended project, and keep your evidence and verification checklist.
Try the package investigationA real decision process, with fictional records
Explore an invented name, a lookalike and a new release. Your next step depends on the evidence you collect. Nothing is installed or fetched from a package registry.
New experiment / Reverse engineering
Copy a program without seeing its code
Send a light beam through an original and your copy. Change the copy's rule, test another color, then use the rule to build a light maze you can keep.
Find a test that catches the wrong rule
Practice checking a replacement an AI coding assistant might help build. This original teaching simulation runs in your browser, with editable rules and no live AI call.
Compare the two programsNew interactive lesson
Compare a rover routing change
Paint a landscape and compare an AI-assisted routing change on visible development and reproducible stress cases. Download the working playground; no live model call.
Open the Upgrade LabBuild and protect a useful result
Explore how an AI agent builds and checks a game. Play the shell game, choose a check that catches lost progress, then keep the playable HTML file. Recorded AI-assisted build with local checks.
Keep both helpers' edits
Make and protect your flight poster. Let two simulated helpers edit it, see a stale copy erase work, then combine the changes and download your artwork.
Inside an agent's tools
Put a photo in the right album
Disconnect a helper's lookup, change its request budget and catch a receipt for the wrong album. Watch exactly which requests become actions.
Try the photo-album harnessKeep your own workshop
Download a complete browser workshop with your chosen settings. Its scripted tools run offline; no AI calls, uploads or account needed.
Part 1 / Explore
Start with the building blocks.
Find a file, change a record, repeat an action and read a response.
Part 2 / Connect
Follow the information.
Compare similar items, choose a source and see what a task needs to know.
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Vectors & distance
What does it mean for two items to be close?
About 10 minutes - 06
Retrieval & evidence
Did the decisive sentence reach the answer?
About 10 minutes - 07
Context & memory
What information is available right now?
About 9 minutes - 08
Workflows
How does one piece of information change the next step?
About 9 minutes
Part 3 / Create
Make the pieces work together.
Set limits, share work, check a result and plan a story of your own.
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Agents & permissions
What may an agent do, and when must it stop?
About 10 minutes - 10
Parallel work
When does more help save time?
About 10 minutes - 11
Checks & corrections
Can a focused check catch a story contradiction?
About 9 minutes - 12
Story workshop
Can your outline keep its promises from beginning to end?
About 15 minutes
Follow your curiosity.
Start anywhere. Each module has an experiment, a short explanation and a question to try in your own words. Change one thing, predict the result, then see whether you were right.
See the rules underneath.
These twelve experiments run locally with visible rules, without live AI models. They illustrate the ideas you can use in larger systems. Suggested times are planning estimates.
Your own check-ins, saved only in this browser when you mark a module.
For teachers & curious pairs
A lesson you can use.
The Dog API guide includes a suggested 35-minute plan, a printable worksheet, discussion answers and optional code. Try it on your school devices before class; the live photo needs internet access.
Open the teacher guideThree ways to start a discussion
- What comes back from an API?Compare a successful response with a failed one.
- Which source supports the answer?Choose “Start the 24-word challenge”. Open “Edit the source or disconnect it”, select “Disconnect the collection”, then “Pack the answer”. Explain why the answer now lacks evidence.
- What is a helper allowed to do?Change a permission and watch the stopping rule.