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Ideas – Sam Enright

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Inspired by: Patrick Collison’s Questions, Y Combinator’s Requests for Startups, Gwern’s Open Questions, Tyler Cowen’s Work on These Things, Luke Muehlhauser’s Projects I Wish I had Time For, and Alexey Guzey’s Research Ideas. This is a list of ideas for projects I’d like to look into at some point. Some of these I just don’t have time for and others I don’t feel qualified to work on. Many of these are half-baked or are actually bad ideas. Feel free to steal any of them. Improving explorable explanations. The main problem with reading is that it’s far too passive. Explorable or interactive explanations are ones that you can play around with while you’re reading. Some of the best examples are Kevin Simler’s interactive essays, and Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielson’s Quantum Country, which incorporates spaced repetition into the text. There would be many more of these experiments in new ways of learning if they weren’t so hard to make. It would be great to see a Medium for explorable ar

Ideas – Sam Enright Ideas Inspired by: Patrick Collison’s Questions , Y Combinator’s Requests for Startups , Gwern’s Open Questions , Tyler Cowen’s Work on These Things, Luke Muehlhauser’s Projects I Wish I had Time For , and Alexey Guzey’s Research Ideas . This is a list of ideas for projects I’d like to look into at some point. Some of these I just don’t have time for and others I don’t feel qualified to work on. Please steal any of them, and email me if you make any progress. Improving explorable explanations. The main problem with reading is that it’s far too passive. Explorabl

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