Meaning Machine — A Visual Explorer for How LLMs Simulate Understanding

Hey everyone — I just finished building Meaning Machine, a visual tool that lets you see what happens when you input a sentence into a language model.

  • Tokenization with BERT (via Hugging Face :hugs:)
  • POS tagging and dependency parsing with spaCy
  • Embedding space visualized with PCA + Plotly
  • SVO extraction for structure and meaning

It’s meant to show how models “understand” text statistically — not with real-world grounding, but through structure, frequency, and co-occurrence.

Would love feedback on the concept, UX, or how useful this might be for teaching/explainability.

Live: https://meaning-machine.streamlit.app
Context: Parsing Perception - by Joshua Hathcock
GitHub: GitHub - jdspiral/tokenizer

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