the map

How to use this site

Every page follows the same shape, so once you know the shape you never have to hunt. Nothing is hidden to be clever — things are folded because fifty papers unfolded at once is a wall.

The three levels

Scan → skim → read

1 · Scan

A lab hub is an annotated bibliography: every paper, one TLDR sentence each, newest first. Decide what to open without opening anything.

2 · Skim

A paper page opens with the TLDR, why it matters, and a link straight to the paper. Every deeper section is collapsed until you ask for it.

3 · Read

Open any + to get the paper’s own sentence and its locator. Every synthesis on this site can be traced back to a quote.

Reading the colours

Colour is information, not decoration

What you seeWhat it means
goldAnthropic. Also used site-wide for the gap — anywhere a claim reaches past its evidence.
magentaGoogle DeepMind. Also the colour of claims in the claim-versus-evidence panels, and of style moves worth stealing.
tealOpenAI. Also the colour of evidence in those panels.
full textThe complete paper was retrieved and read.
lab post onlyThe lab’s own write-up; no separate full paper exists behind it.
abstract onlyFull text was unreachable. Treat conclusions accordingly.
The panel that matters most

Claim ↔ evidence

On every paper page there is a two-column panel. It is the whole point of the site.

The claim

A one-sentence statement of what the authors assert.

“Underneath it, their own words, verbatim.”

The evidence

“The data they actually offer for it, also verbatim, with a locator so you can find it.”

Mind the gap: when the claim reaches past the evidence, a gold band names the distance. No gold band means no gap was found — not that nobody looked.
Choices, not confusion

Where you get two versions of the same thing

Some things appear twice, in two forms of equal authority. Neither is the “real” one. The rule is always the same:

The paper’s words

Verbatim. Use this when you need to quote it, or when you are judging how they write — which is most of the time, for your purposes.

Plain language

A paraphrase written for comprehension. Use this when you want the idea, fast, and do not need their phrasing.

Switching never loses anything — both versions stay one click apart, and the toggle never changes what is on the rest of the page.

The promise

What this site will never do

  • Invent a quote. Every quoted string was verified as an exact substring of the source text.
  • Fill a blank to look complete. If a paper never states its temperature, the cell says not reported. That absence is itself a finding about how the lab writes.
  • Hide what it was built from. Every paper page ends with a note saying what text it was built on.