AI & technology research
Distill
distill.pub
AI & technology researchfree
Interactive, peer-reviewed explainers of machine learning concepts. Dormant since 2021, but the articles import well as Website sources for ML study notebooks.
Distill's articles explain machine learning concepts through interactive visualizations, which is a genuinely different format from a standard paper and often builds intuition faster than the equations do. It's a strong pick for a notebook meant to teach foundational ML ideas like attention or graph networks. The site stopped publishing in 2021, so it won't cover anything since then and should be treated as background rather than current research.
Import into Gemini Notebook
- 1Copy the link above (or a specific page from the site).
- 2In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
- 3Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.
Conference proceedings and lab blogs publish full papers as PDFs or Website pages — those import cleanly and keep citations intact.
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