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Hive Diagnosis 2D: Bayesian Belief Map

Diagnose a failing beehive by choosing which diagnostic test to run: watch a real naive-Bayes posterior update reshape a 2D belief map over five candidate causes, with a live Shannon-entropy readout, pan and zoom.

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A struggling colony rarely announces its own cause. This 2D companion to the 3D hive-diagnosis simulator strips the same structured troubleshooting process — identify, think critically, develop a solution, implement, evaluate — down to a flat, pannable belief map. Five candidate causes (Varroa mites, Nosema, queen failure, pesticide exposure, and starvation/weather stress) start equally likely; each diagnostic test you choose to run returns a real simulated result and reshapes the posterior probability map live, with glowing particles carrying the update from the test node to every cause disk and a running Shannon-entropy readout showing how much uncertainty is actually left. Jump to a diagnosis too early and you'll often be wrong — exactly the shortcut the underlying article warns beekeepers against.

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Diagnose a failing beehive by choosing which diagnostic tests to run and watch a real naive-Bayes update reshape a flat, pannable 2D probability map over five candidate causes, tracked live by Shannon entropy.

beekeepingbayesian-inferenceprobabilityentropydiagnosticsdecision-making

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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