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This is the repository for the distill web framework

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Observed mentions: 2017-03-20 20:08:29 UTC to 2025-08-18 09:08:22 UTC.

0123452017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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What a stunning interactive visualization. I wonder what tool was used here? Edit: Here's their template https://github.com/distillpub/template/tree/master As I feared, they seem to be using D3.js "by hand", which is the only way to achieve such high quality but needs IMO an enormous amount of work and dedication. No wonder they are offline, that's hard to sustain. I hope a technology comes that makes it significantly easier to make such interactive charts. I know there are many out there, but there's always a "but".
In A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes (2019)
You're right: we are taking the mean of the activations of a given channel `z` over all its `x,y` coordinates. (We could sum, but we use mean so that step sizes are comparable between channel and neuron objectives.) Thanks for the feedback that this notation is not super clear, we will consider rewriting those expressions. When we do feature visualization we do start from a random point/noise. For the diagram showing steepest descent directions, however, the gradient is evaluated on an input image from the dataset, shown as the leftmost image. There's no real step size either as we're showing the direction. You can think of the scale as arbitrary and chosen for appearance. Section numbers are on their way—and figure numbers also sound helpful! I've added a ticket. (https://github.com/distillpub/template/issues/63) For now you can alread
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In Feature Visualization: How neural nets build up their understanding of images
We were frustrated by the experience of reading machine learning papers on screens (particularly phones/tablets). There are lots of good tools for authoring HTML papers (Distill, Authorea, etc) but nothing that deals with the vast number of PDF papers that already exist. So, we built Arxiv Vanity: a site that renders Arxiv papers as web pages. It’s still pretty janky, but for the papers that do render correctly, the experience is so much better than reading a PDF. For example: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1705.04085v3/ https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1708.00884/ https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1705.06031v2/ The source for the LaTeX to HTML renderer is on GitHub[0]. It’s built on Pandoc[1] and Distill.pub’s template[2]. [0] https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo [1] https://pandoc.org [2] https://github.com/distillpub/templ
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In Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages

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