Experiments & cultural artefacts
Lab
Before the Institute, there was the Random Research Lab — a quieter name for the same instinct: that the goddess Τύχη, fortune and chance, sits at the root of cryptography and that the work most worth doing sometimes starts in a corner with a notebook rather than on the front page. The Lab is where that instinct still lives.
For peer-reviewable working papers and formal research output, see Research. This page collects the lab side: experiments, essays, and publications adjacent to the Institute's technical mission.
EN / RU / ET · interactive 3D tutorial · how GPT works
microGPT 3D Tutorial
A trilingual, browser-side 3D walkthrough of Karpathy's ~150-line microGPT — a complete GPT small enough that nothing is hand-waved: live attention beams, gradients flowing backward through a draggable graph, and a temperature slider on real generation. Adapted for junior AI researchers, with a foundations primer and glossary. Based on microgpt-3d-tutorial by lxb12123 (MIT).
RU / EN / ET · interactive study guide · adaptive education
Bayesian Knowledge Tracing Study Guide
A trilingual, interactive guide to Bayesian Knowledge Tracing, adaptive task selection, explainability, and classroom heatmaps — a safer flagship case for attestable educational AI where teachers remain in control and recommendations can leave replayable evidence.
RU / EN / ET · literary publication · public-key infrastructure
PKI-ZEN
A trilingual sūtra about certificates, YAML, and almost-enlightenment — a cultural companion to Tyche's technical work on trust infrastructure.
EN · open-data ML · water-quality risk
H2O Atlas
A probabilistic risk estimator for Estonian water-quality compliance, built on Terviseamet open data. It originated as a TalTech Masinõpe (spring 2026) coursework project and continues as a Tyche-side testbed for EATF — a transparency tool, not a health advisory.
Simulations
Public model sandboxes
These are exploratory synthetic simulations for asking better questions, not prediction engines or policy advice. They expose assumptions, scenario branches, and country-level sensitivity so a reader can see how conclusions change when parameters move.
synthetic wellbeing simulation · country replay · AI futures
Happy Scenario Atlas
An interactive explorer for Tyche's synthetic wellbeing simulations. It lets readers replay country, regional, and world-level scenarios for human flourishing and agentic-AI futures, using filters for harm risk, fragility, and modeled suffering effects.
The public build is refreshed from the institute's long-running simulation experiments, so the atlas can absorb new scenario evidence as the work continues.
Emerging research labs
New lines under formation
These labs are early-stage research programmes rather than finished publications. They name the questions Tyche is beginning to organize into source maps, datasets, and future papers.
public lab · X-Road · carrier-bound AI evidence
X-Road AI Evidence Lab
A reproducible lab on carrier-bound AI evidence: whether governed data-exchange infrastructure such as X-Road can carry and witness independently verifiable evidence about AI-agent actions.
The first public bundle is deposited on Zenodo. The next phase follows X-Road 8's shift toward dataspaces, verifiable credentials, cloud deployment, monitoring, and metrics.
emerging lab · literature maps · dataset provenance
Literature + Dataset Evidence Lab
A curation line for turning thesis-scale crawling into publication-grade source packs: literature, datasets, proceedings, standards, regulatory material, source quality, reuse constraints, and citation readiness.
The first internal milestone is a source-family taxonomy and a dataset inventory with license, provenance, update cadence, and paper relevance.
emerging lab · AI governance readiness · Estonia-first
PALLAS — Country AI-Readiness Lab
A country-comparison line for AI-readiness as evidence infrastructure: legal basis, competent authorities, sandboxes, standards participation, algorithm registers, digital identity, PKI, cybersecurity, procurement, and auditability.
The first worked case is Estonia, followed by a Europe-first and then global comparison.