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UMAP Explainer Animation for ML Students

Riley Goodside

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Sep 25, 2026

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A fully animated 5-minute video explaining UMAP — the dimensionality reduction algorithm — pitched at undergrad ML students. Claude Opus 5.5 conceived every visual metaphor, wrote the narration, and generated the animation code, all prompted via Claude Code on a phone. You see handwritten digits drifting and clustering in dark space, exactly the kind of MNIST visualization that makes UMAP click. No external assets, no human-written script — pure model output from prompt to finished explainer.

Claude authored the entire script, visual concepts, and animation — prompted entirely from a phone via Claude Code
Uses MNIST digit clustering visuals to make UMAP's neighborhood-preserving logic tangible for beginners
5 minutes of narrated, animated content generated end-to-end with no human-written copy

“Claude Opus 5.5 writes and animates a 5 minute explanation of UMAP for an undergraduate ML audience All of this—the concepts for the visuals, the narration, etc.—is from Claude. Prompted in Claude Code on my phone.”
— @goodside

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