Gwern has one of the most amazing websites of the internet. The level of attention to detail, thought, customization, navigation, and overall information architecture is astonishing.

First, you can (almost) always add .md to the url and get its source code. Try it out: The End to End Principle and doc/cs/end-to-end-principle/index.md, its source code. I love this feature, and I wish a lot more pages would support this natively. For AI/LLM ingestion, it’s great. It’s honest, transparent. For saving bandwith, it’s amazing. If you’ve seen a previous page, this markdown is compressing exactly the information you would need to “reassemble” the new page.

Then, there are the subscripts and superscripts. Most links have a “little sign” suffixed to them that efficient and effectively hints where would that link take you to: another page, a wikipedia article, to a PDF file, a footnote, among others. But it also sponsors “clarifiers”, like for example, any price of something carries a tag that automatically corrects for inflation. This is a tool that I would like to have in many other contexts. Reminds me of Cambria by Ink & Switch.

And then, it is all explained and open source

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Gwern says: Why not both?