Fermat's Library

“You always benefit if you can make it as clear and accessible as possible because you never know, like the audience that is going to be, end up reading your paper. You can, you, of course you can expect that the people in your field are going to read it, but s…”

“Fermat is a platform for annotating papers. And so if you want to think about it, you imagine a PDF view in your browser, and then you have annotations on the side that support LaTeX, And markdown, and so you can add annotations in parts of papers that you thi…”

“Our idea was initially we wanted really to convince people to install the Chrome extension. And so let's solve the hair on fire problems that they are describing here. And then once we have people using the Chrome extension and then we can expand into like ope…”

“And sometimes that content does exist, but the, being able to find it easily, having, having that, like, in your fingertips, Fingertips can make the whole difference, right? Where even if you, yeah, maybe you could do, spend like a minute, like searching on Go…”

“If you look at the graph of submissions for Archive, it's completely almost linear. It's, there's no startup exponential, artistic growth. It's like, completely linear, but it's arguably one of the things that has had the most or that has impacted the making o…”

“The more you annotate a paper, there are more people there are that are at the edge of starting to understand what the paper is about. So you start getting more and more questions because the circle expands, and then you just have more people that are, like, s…”

“We start, our first paper was the Bitcoin paper.”

“It would make sense for books to be annotated and also be open source so that in that sense you would just you know, commit a new chapter a new explanation for that and keep all the other chapters and then just change that bit. Instead of having to write a new…”

“Every time we talk with an author, I think it's easier for them to answer questions about their papers than to annotate the paper.”

“We've thought of doing something with Fermat there, either via some API where you could, like, send us the DOI of a paper, and we would send you, like, some information regarding the p-value or something, or with the Chrome extension where where you'd see that…”

“One of the things that we noticed, or at least I noticed from reading papers is that sometimes it's not like the discovery paper that is the most impactful paper.”

“We thought there was a lot of content that, that you end up producing while you're trying to read a paper, which can be the most, like, the most dense piece of content that a human can read sometimes, right? The language can be incredibly spartan, and sometime…”