Attention Budget

Tap a word to attend Enter to submit
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How Attention Budget Works

You have a finite attention span and a context window to match. Each round drops a short passage and a question. The catch: you may only highlight a handful of tokens — your attention budget. Spend it on the words that actually establish the answer, not the ones that merely sound important.

  1. Read the question, then the passage below it.
  2. Tap words to highlight the minimal set of tokens that answers it.
  3. The budget meter caps how many tokens you can attend to.
  4. Hit Submit Attention (or press Enter) to score the round.

How You're Scored

You earn points for covering the key tokens and lose them for wasting attention on distractors. Nail a round and your combo climbs, multiplying your gains. Miss key tokens or burn budget on filler and the combo resets — classic attention collapse. After each submit, the true answer-bearing tokens flash so you can calibrate.

Slop Fact: Real transformers spend quadratic compute attending to every token against every other token, which is why your phone gets warm summarizing a grocery list. You, by contrast, get a hard budget and zero KV-cache. Allocate wisely.

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