Wikipedia article → 5-year-old explanation

Hand any topic to Wikipedia, then to claude with an ELI5 framing. Zero-setup tutoring.

$ curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Homotopy_type_theory" \
  | jq -r '.extract' \
  | claude -p "Re-explain this for a curious 12-year-old. 4 sentences max."

1. [01] curlcurl … /page/summary/Homotopy_type_theory
   Wikipedia REST summary.
2. [02] jqjq -r '.extract'
   Pull the lead paragraph as raw text.
3. [03] claudeclaude -p "Re-explain …"
   Headless prompt. The Wikipedia lead is the context; the prompt directs the rewrite.

Imagine you have two pieces of string. If you can wiggle one until it looks exactly like the other without cutting it, they're 'the same' in a useful way. Homotopy type theory is a kind of math that takes this 'shape-stretching' idea seriously, and uses it to talk about whether two ideas in math are actually the same idea wearing different costumes...

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