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🌟 Contributing to The Papers That Dream

Thanks for your interest in this project. Whether you're here to tune a sentence, suggest a soundtrack, or reimagine a memory in code—we're listening. This is a project about making foundational AI papers feel human. And haunting. And unforgettable.

🎯 What You Can Contribute

📝 Story Feedback

  • Typos, grammar, or pacing issues
  • Suggestions for narrative or emotional impact
  • Corrections to technical accuracy
  • Thoughts on tone, atmosphere, or rhythm

📋 Paper Suggestions

  • Alternative interpretations of a featured paper
  • Ideas for what to cover next
  • Real-world connections or researcher backstories
  • Links between different papers or eras

🎭 Creative Work

  • Alternative versions of stories or scenes
  • Voice, sound, or music interpretations
  • Art inspired by the stories
  • Reading/performance ideas
  • Video adaptation concepts

🔧 Technical Contributions

  • Website UX improvements
  • TTS/audio tooling and tuning
  • Reading experience enhancements (especially mobile)
  • Better search/discovery for story threads

🚀 How to Contribute

  1. 🐾 Small fixes → Open a pull request
  2. 💬 Story feedback → Use GitHub Discussions
  3. 🎯 Bigger ideas → Open an issue first to discuss
  4. 🎨 Creative work → Share in Discussions or link to it externally

✍️ Story Suggestions? Start Here.

If you're pitching new interpretations or alternatives:

  • 💝 Focus on emotional resonance over technical precision
  • 🌈 Make stories accessible to non-technical readers
  • 🙏 Respect the original researchers and the weight of their work
  • 🌊 Consider narrative flow, pacing, and atmosphere
  • 🎭 Think across emotional registers—wonder, dread, grief, awe

❌ What We're Not Looking For

  • Academic paper reviews
  • Technical tutorials
  • Marketing content
  • Stories unrelated to the foundational papers
  • Commercial promotions
  • Uncurated AI output (no raw dumps—curation is everything)

AI-generated content is welcome only if it's clearly shaped, edited, or emotionally curated by a human. This project is about resonance, not regurgitation.


🎁 Special Contribution Paths

🎵 Audio Experiments

  • Voice acting, narration, or soundscape concepts
  • Music compositions inspired by specific papers
  • TTS tuning or narration demos
  • Podcast collaboration ideas

🌐 Community Building

  • Sharing stories in relevant communities or classrooms
  • Organizing local readings or salons
  • Connecting with researchers who wrote the original papers
  • Writing thoughtful responses or inspired pieces

🔬 Research Connections

  • Helping track real-world impact of featured papers
  • Uncovering narrative threads between historical moments
  • Surfacing underrepresented voices in AI history

🧭 Questions?

Open an issue or start a Discussion. You don't need permission to care deeply about weird intersections.


💌 Recognition

Contributors will be acknowledged in:

  • 📋 Story credits (when applicable)
  • 🌟 README contributor section
  • 🎉 Audio or podcast versions
  • 💖 General gratitude and good vibes

If a story moved you, confused you, or left a shape in your head—follow that thread. Leave a mark. Add a voice. This is how the papers begin to dream in more than one direction. 🌙