2025-10-08
- Distill Hiatus - very interesting article about the challenges of running Distill.pub and what was great about it.
- Transformer Circuits Thread by Anthropic referncing Interactive Articles
Distill.pub was amazing
Loved the description here and the list of examples. Resonates with ideas going way back when to e.g. Weaving History and Open Literature and Why do we create PDFs in the age of the web
A modern medium for presenting research
The web is a powerful medium to share new ways of thinking. Over the last few years we’ve seen many imaginative examples of such work. But traditional academic publishing remains focused on the PDF, which prevents this sort of communication.