Anatomy

Diagrams of boxes and arrows describe an idea. These build it. Each piece is the real thing, running: a transformer you can type into, laid out in 3D from its own numbers; a web stack you can overload. The 3D dissections walk through a landmark paper or system component by component, trace every figure to its source, and end with experiments of their own.

6 models 3 AI & ML3 Architecture 635 parts and components 134 links into the libraries

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Any Language models 2 Neural network foundations 1 Performance & capacity 1 Web & API systems 1 Distributed systems 1

Any Working model 3 Simulation 3

A live simulation of the system, checked against its closed-form model.

1 model for “state machine replication”.

Simulation · 3D Architecture · Distributed systems

Anatomy of Lamport Clocks

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events, dissected: an execution laid out in 3D with its logical clocks, vector clocks, every pair of events, the mutual exclusion algorithm and a physical-clock synchroniser, all computed live and checked against what really happened before what.

Lamport's 1978 paper built from its own definitions: the paper's Figure 1 or a seeded execution in 3D, logical and vector clocks on every event, the mutual exclusion algorithm, physical clock skew ag…

45 components · Intermediate 16 Oct 2026