flagship storyEchoTime

AI attention breakout analogs

A showcase story for asking which historical attention breakout DeepSeek looked most like over its first breakout window.

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Use caseExplainable similarity demo

Why this demo travels

Series overlay
EchoTime series previewSeries previewDeepSeekThreads

The closest analog stays shape-aligned enough that the story is visible before you read the verdict.

Similarity radar
Similarity radarSimilarity radarRadar over the time-series metrics. Read it together with Pearson, Spearman, and mutual info.ShapeDTWTrendDerivativeSpectral

The radar shows which time-series metrics keep supporting the analog and which ones stay weaker.

Rolling component mean
Rolling component meanRolling component meanmean=0.51, min=0.20, max=0.93 across per-window metric means

Windowed component means show whether the analog survives beyond the first surge of attention.

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Data note

This story uses a frozen local CSV snapshot plus the upstream Wikimedia pageviews endpoint so the result stays reproducible.