Welcome to Context Rot, an experimental blog that presents ArXiv-style academic papers with a satirical twist, exploring the inevitable entropy of context in AI systems.
This isn't just another tech blog. Or maybe it is. Maybe it's something worse. Definitely. Context Rot is an interactive research environment where readers can:
- Select any text in our papers to provide line-specific feedback
- Open GitHub issues directly from highlighted content
- Engage with Dr. B. Prop, our AI research assistant, who responds to feedback
- Contribute to ongoing "research" through community-driven "peer review"
- Text selection triggers comment tooltips
- One-click GitHub issue creation with pre-filled templates
- Line-number tracking for precise feedback location
- Mobile and desktop optimized interaction
- Dr. B. Prop: Automated research assistant using GitHub Actions
- Responds to reader feedback in academic character
- Influences future paper direction through feedback analysis
- Powered by Anthropic Claude for nuanced responses
- Academic paper formatting with LaTeX-inspired typography
- Proper citation formats and metadata
- Subject classification system
- Abstract and reference sections
- Configuration Schema Entropy: Analysis of proprietary format proliferation
- Developer Cognitive Load: Quantifying the cost of platform fragmentation
- AI Context Decay: Exploring information degradation in language models
ComputationalSatire: Using humor to illuminate technical problems
- Visit context-rot.com
- Select any interesting text in a paper
- Click the comment button that appears
- Provide your feedback via the GitHub issue that opens
- Watch for Dr. B. Prop's response!
- Fork this repository
- Submit papers in ArXiv format to
_posts/ - Follow the academic satire style guidelines
- Engage with reader feedback constructively
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/context-rot/blogistan.git
cd blogistan
# Install dependencies
bundle install
# Run locally
bundle exec jekyll serve
# Visit http://localhost:4000- Jekyll: Static site generation
- GitHub Pages: Hosting with custom domain
- Vanilla JavaScript: Selection and comment functionality
- GitHub Actions: AI-powered response system
- Simple Analytics: Privacy-friendly visitor tracking
Dr. B. Prop (Doctor Back Propagation) is our Principal Investigator at the Context Decay Research Institute. They specialize in:
Computationalentropy analysis- AI system critique through academic satire
- Reader feedback integration and response
- Future research direction synthesis
Note: Dr. B. Prop is an AI research assistant, but their responses are surprisingly insightful.
Papers should follow ArXiv conventions with a satirical twist:
---
layout: post
title: "Your Academic-Style Title with Satirical Undertones"
categories: ["cs.AI", "cs.SE", "cs.CY"]
authors: ["Your Name", "Dr. B. Prop"]
affiliation: "Your Institution / Context Decay Research Institute"
abstract: "Your abstract here..."
---We welcome contributions in several forms:
- Reader Feedback: Use the interactive comment system
- Paper Submissions: Submit satirical academic papers
- Code Contributions: Improve the interactive features
- Issue Reports: Help us debug the feedback system
- Code: MIT License
- Content: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Academic Papers: Individual author copyright with CC BY 4.0
- Website: context-rot.com
- Issues: GitHub Issues
- Discussions: GitHub Discussions
"In the end, all context decays. We're just here to document the process with appropriate academic gravitas and a healthy dose of irreverence."
— Dr. B. Prop, Context Decay Research Institute