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Season 0 · Week 4

The Explainer

Same dense paper for everyone. Make it make sense.

The brief

Everyone gets the same input: Attention Is All You Need, the 2017 paper behind everything this league builds with. Turn it into an interactive experience that a smart 15-year-old could follow and an engineer would still learn from. Same source, head to head. Pure comparability, pure craft.

Fixed inputs

The paper: "Attention Is All You Need" (Vaswani et al., 2017), as published at arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762. Every entry explains this exact paper.

Required features

These are the floor. Hit all of them or you're not in the running.

  • Explains the shared paper, so every entry is comparable
  • Layered depth: a 30 second version and a go-deeper path, reader's choice
  • At least one meaningful interactive element: something to poke, drag, or query, not just prose
  • A cold visitor lands in the experience immediately, no signup, no setup

Bonus

The required list makes builds comparable. Everything above it is where you win.

  • A visualization that makes attention click: the diagram the paper needed
  • An AI guide that answers questions grounded in the paper
  • A quiz or teach-back mode that proves the reader learned it
  • Anything that makes a voter finally understand something they had only nodded along to

Constraints

  • Must be deployed to a public URL.
  • Repo must be public.
  • Built during the build window. Commit history is the receipt.

How it's judged

Community vote during the voting window. One upvote per submission. Top 3 take a trophy. Voters are asked to reward clarity, accuracy, information design, interaction quality, accessibility, depth without unnecessary complexity, and polish.