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."
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.
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?
But given the sudden wide audience, a quick "here's what this is for" at the top might be helpful.
why do you care? this is a disingenuous question.
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 ;)
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