Machine Learning Research Should Be Clear, Dynamic and Vivid.
Distill Is Here to Help. 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.
WHY IT MATTERS: AI researcher often struggle to explain concepts in their research. They have created a new publication platform to help make papers easier to understand and reduce what they call "research debt". I think the same applies to many other fields...