[notmcrowley]

Author here. First year CS student at Trinity College Dublin. I Built this because when I was getting into reading research papers I ended up burning a ton of my Claude usage asking questions other people have probably already asked. The website is just a side project and definitely a WIP. Happy to answer questions or take PRs on GitHub.

[gowld]

An option to disable animation and show the paper links in a simple list would be helpful.

[anomaloustho]

The problem is the background is often times doing a wave motion across the screen.

Then the foreground content is doing an in/out undulation on top. So you’re seeing an undulating in/out in every possible direction + the background. And the foreground animations are all at the same time. So it’s not that we’re emphasizing any one thing. We’re emphasizing all of it.

The key with animations is in what they’re trying to draw attention to, the character of the movement, and the timing of it. You usually don’t want everything to equally animate at once.

I would: • Use background movement that also isn’t a “wave” • Stagger the timing of foreground animations so the main content is emphasized, followed by a pause, followed by the sidebars • Change the nature of the animations so they’re not doing the same essentially thing “zoom and pan” - so have the center zoom and pan, but do something different for the sides.

[jodacola]

Agree on the animation.

As an aside, I've seen folks mention respecting reduced animation hints and such in the past and was always curious about this because I've never had any negative experiences with animations... until now!

Something about the animations on this site did my brain in while scrolling through the papers, and now I "get it."

[groby_b]

I think it'd be interesting to hear what you think the goal of the site is.

Is it just rehosting the list, plus a reformatted copy of the papers? I was hoping you'd have at least annotated them with what you'd learned?

[notmcrowley]

Hey thanks for checking out the website. I did not expect this to get as much attention as it did. I was honestly just planning on having it as a small side project for my friends and some others who would like to get into this kind of stuff. I will definitely annotate them in the future if that is something that people would appreciate. I currently have something like this done for a few papers on my X account.

[fuzzythinker]

Yes, I expected annotations, so please add. I know you named the site 30 papers, but I don't think anyone will hold you to it if you add more papers to it as you read and annotate more, or allow others to do so.

[groby_b]

I mean, you don't have to annotate them :) Would I love to read annotations? Sure - but it's a boatload of work for you, and if it's just meant as a repo for you and your friends, no need to do a ton of work just because an Internet rando asked.

But given the sudden wide audience, a quick "here's what this is for" at the top might be helpful.

[gjvc]

> I think it'd be interesting to hear what you think the goal of the site is.

why do you care? this is a disingenuous question.

[phtrivier]

Hi ! The "artistic direction" is a bit original, but that's your thing, and you're free to present it anyway you want, of course !

I think the biggest problem people / I had when reading the list was the "based on a rumoured list of papers that Ilya Sutskever gave to John Carmack."

Where did you get the "rumoured list" from ? Why should a reader trust the rumours ? That seems to be a pretty big appeal to authority, and it's okay if it's only "word of mouth" (as most papers seems legit), but it's really weird not to give a source, or a backstory, or references, etc...

Especially since you claim to only have 27 ;)

[notmcrowley]

The list came from a post on X by ex-OpenAI employee Andrew Carr. There are multiple lists floating around which is why I said rumoured. I found this to be a more credible source than others though given Sutskever's connection to OpenAI so I used it.

[mjg2]

Thanks for sharing this. It appears your README.md's first paragraph is truncated. It ends with "Carmack which reportedly contains..." What were you intending to say next?

[fl0id]

What is the easily accessible part? Just that they are on one website? At first I thought there would be more explanation or other addons.

[notmcrowley]

There are summaries for each paper on the landing page. Also as you read the papers, key/difficult words are highlighted and you can click on them to get a simple definition quickly. A few people have asked for write ups on what my takeaways from each paper were so I am currently working on that.

If there are any suggestions that anyone has for things that would help them with the papers I will definitely add them. My main goal is to make this as easy as possible for people to use