PaperSplain

I'm not a researcher. I'm just someone who gets unreasonably excited when a new paper drops in a field I have no business reading about. Protein folding? Fascinating. Quantum error correction? Sign me up. The problem is, jumping into a paper on topological qubits when your physics education stopped at "electrons go around the nucleus" is... humbling. So I built PaperSplain for myself. It implements the Three-Pass Method – an actual academic reading technique where you read a paper three times at increasing depth. First pass: what's the paper about and why should I care? Second pass: what did they actually do, with attention to the figures that usually make or break my understanding. Third pass: what are the assumptions, limitations, and implications?