paper-bro

paper-bro turns any arXiv paper into an interactive course for a curious newcomer with no background in the field. Swap arxiv.org for aero.oops.wtf/paper-bro in a paper's address: the first visitor starts the build, and everyone after is sent to the finished course. Free, no login, one course per paper. A course has 6 to 10 lessons, each with a hands-on lab (sliders, simulations, a tiny version of the paper's method), then a quiz and a glossary. The build is a Rust pipeline: read the paper, plan the course, write the lessons in parallel, load every lab in headless Chromium to catch broken ones, have a separate reviewer pass check the lessons against the paper and the browser results, repair what failed (at most two rounds), then publish. The labs are model-written code, so each one runs in a sandboxed iframe with an opaque origin. Courses are published through AERO, my own hosting platform, which existed before the hackathon. The paper-bro code starts at the hackathon (first commit 27 Oct).