You can read any graduate-level textbook in another domain by asking a coding agent to make you an interactive one Here's me learning neuroimaging using nested tooltips to recursively explain concepts and interactive widgets for "gears-level understanding"

Prompt: (edit with a list of courses/concepts you already know, then paste it w the pdf into codex/claude code)

Actually im building this tool as chrome extension. you can do this by just one click. no prompt, no claude

I built the same thing for a hackathon recently but went above and beyond by making it an actual long term learning app usable optimized for Gemma models for privacy and not spending a buck on API inferences.

this is what I've always wanted. having to stop and look up new terms adds so much friction but is necessary for learning. I would love to pair this with adding terms to a spaced repetition system that quizzes me every day so i don't forget.

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it’s really beautiful design

this is mostly claude actually, i had it do a couple of versions and this one looked best

we have @gwern at home

high level larp, how do you bridge underlying prerequisite concepts?

that is great but how are you certain the context is correct, if you don't have the pre-requisite knowledge

love that people are hand-rolling their own custom Encarta Encyclopedia experiences

This is a really nice way to turn passive reading into active exploration. The nested tooltips seem especially useful when a field has lots of hidden prerequisites.

This is how we should be using automation. Instead of passive reading, you build a custom interface to parse complex systems. It is the same principle as building a local observability dashboard to understand a massive legacy codebase. Interactive feedback loops always beat static ingestion.

nested tooltips are cool until the recursion hits your sanity limit then you realize you built a maze not a textbook

this is very cool

That's kind of a way better version of my that I vibecoded a while ago. I love learning that way.

It’s more of a getting sucked into a rabbit hole.

Turning textbooks into interactive lessons, that's such a smart use of coding agents.

this is very good!

How do you ensure accuracy of the content?

isn't this just wikipedia with extra steps

And forget People learn only in survival mode. People research in abundance mode. AI agent will make learning fun but worthless

so cool!

This looks amazing. How long did it take to generate a full book?

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could make a chrome extension that does this on the fly

where do you buy textbooks from?

Cool. Like the idea of an interactive textbook!

Thanks for sharing! I honestly don't want to go back to learning without this type of interaction with Agent and it's honestly fun

looks amazing thanks for sharing

I’ve been trying to vibecode something like this! How did u prompt codex for this

I do this but I focus it on generating problems and critiquing answers through a built in chat interface.

doing this now for graphchinese dot com :)