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models of mind · rebuilt from the paper · running in this tab

Cognitive science publishes a great many models and very few you can actually poke. The code, when there is code, is a notebook in a footnote that stopped running three library versions ago. This wing takes models worth playing with, reimplements them from the paper in Rust, compiles them to WebAssembly, and puts them behind a URL — with the replication against the published result shown on the page, so you can see for yourself whether the rebuild earns the citation.

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How a model gets in here

  1. Rebuilt from the paper, not the repo. The equations and the described procedure are the source. Where a reference implementation exists it is read for disambiguation and credited, never copied — which also keeps the licensing clean when the original ships without a licence file, as most do.
  2. It has to replicate. Every model here is run against a published number from its own paper — a table, a figure, a reported range — and the comparison is on the page, including where it disagrees.
  3. It has to run in the browser. Rust compiled to WebAssembly, no server, no upload, no account. Everything you see is computed on your machine, so the model is as fast to poke as it is to read about.
  4. Credit goes upstream. The science belongs to the authors. Cite the paper.

Suggestions for models that deserve this treatment are welcome at tips@minomobi.com.