PRODUCT HISTORY

Release notes

A concise record of how NOESIS is evolving.

v0.9.1

Polish pass

  • Theme is back to two states — ink-night and washi — the system-following mode is gone.
  • Fixed the tutor's suggested-question chips having uneven top/bottom padding.
  • Fixed the signed-in header wrapping into vertical single characters on narrow phones, and a small overflow at 320px width.
v0.9.0

Four new lessons

  • Regularization & normalization: what dropout, weight decay, and batch/layer norm actually do.
  • Generative models: the intuition behind GANs and diffusion — how today's image generators work.
  • Fine-tuning & LoRA: how it differs from RAG and prompting, and why LoRA makes local fine-tuning practical.
  • AI safety & alignment: why hallucination happens, how bias gets learned, and what alignment (RLHF) does.
  • The path now runs 21 lessons across the same four stages — deep learning and LLM systems each gained ground.
v0.8.0

Guided, not graded

  • Every exercise is now a guided single-choice question that checks whether you grasp the principle — no more free-text answers or AI grading per exercise.
  • Pick an option and see immediately whether it's right, with a short explanation either way.
  • The study journal and its Markdown export now show your choice and the explanation instead of raw answer text.
  • The AI tutor still knows what you got right or wrong, just without quoting your old free-text answers.
v0.7.0

Know yourself, find it faster

  • Account now opens with a learning overview: streak, lessons and exercises done, and lifetime active days.
  • Command palette search now also matches lesson objectives, not just titles.
  • The study journal gained a keyword search across notes, answers, and tutor feedback.
v0.6.2

Roadmap clarity

  • The learning path gained a status legend and a done-count next to every stage.
  • The public path page now spells out what each stage lets you do, plus its lesson list.
v0.6.1

Path window

  • A new identity mark: one continuous golden path crossing an ink-framed window, breaking free of the frame.
  • The favicon follows the same mark, and every count on the portal now matches the real curriculum.
v0.6.0

Jump anywhere

  • Command palette (⌘K / Ctrl+K): search every lesson and page, arrow keys to navigate, Enter to go.
  • Export your entire study journal — notes, answers, and tutor feedback — as a Markdown file.
  • Arrow keys page between lessons; a footer hint keeps the shortcuts discoverable.
  • Theme gains a third mode that follows your system, cycling ink-night → washi → auto.
  • The public path page now computes lesson counts and durations live from the curriculum.
  • A branded 404 gently points lost visitors back to the lit path.
v0.5.0

Trace, journal & flow

  • A twelve-week activity heatmap now traces your learning footprint in shades of gold.
  • New study journal collects every note and exercise answer in one place, linked back to its lesson.
  • Roadmap rows show exercise progress per lesson, so you can see what is left at a glance.
  • Lesson pages gain a floating chapter outline with scroll tracking and a golden reading-progress line.
  • Completing a lesson lights up with a kintsugi sweep and hands you straight to the next one.
  • The tutor suggests opening questions from the lesson goals; Enter sends, Shift+Enter breaks a line.
  • Unified signed-in navigation — path, journal, account — with the current page underlined in gold.
v0.4.0

Ink night & kintsugi

  • New ink-night default theme, with the original washi paper kept as a switchable light theme.
  • Completed lessons now trace the path in gold — kintsugi for the road you have walked.
  • Lessons unlock in sequence, guided by a continue-learning dashboard with streaks and weekly stats.
  • The AI tutor now streams replies, renders markdown, reads your notes and answers, and can clear a conversation.
  • A new seal-shaped identity mark carries the golden path across the whole site.
v0.3.0

The path comes alive

  • Rebuilt the portal as a full-screen, pointer-responsive learning-path experience.
  • Moved the curriculum overview into a dedicated public path page.
  • Added motion-safe static behavior for people who prefer reduced motion.
  • Connected every primary portal action to a focused destination page.
v0.2.0

A quieter, more complete NOESIS

  • Introduced a softer editorial type system and a new path-inspired identity.
  • Added a session-aware welcome sequence with reduced-motion support.
  • Replaced Japanese decorative labels with clear English wayfinding.
  • Added release notes, author information, and site-wide copyright navigation.
v0.1.0

The first path

  • Launched the four-stage AI learning roadmap.
  • Added lesson progress, exercises, notes, account recovery, and passkeys.