# paper-bro

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Aero Windwalker](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/aeroxy)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/aeroxy/paper-bro
- **Demo video:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7egZZNXmRTQ
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/36

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).

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