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137.l-body-outset,
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356  dt-article.centered > h4,
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404    margin-right: auto;
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406

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415  /* page and screen are already centered */
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417  /* Side */
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426    width: calc(4 * 60px + 3 * 24px);
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456    float: right;
457    width: 480px;
458    margin-right: calc((100vw - 984px) / 2);
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463    float: right;
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465    margin-right: calc((100vw - 984px) / 2);
466  }
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471    float: right;
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473    margin-left: 24px;
474    margin-right: calc((100vw - 984px) / 2);
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477
478}
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481
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484}
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510
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523    margin-top: 48px;
524    margin-bottom: 12px;
525  }
526}
527
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530    text-align: center;
531  }
532
533  dt-article h1 {
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535    letter-spacing: -0.02em;
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542}
543
544
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548  }
549
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552  }
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554
555/* H2 */
556
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559  font-weight: 400;
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561  line-height: 1.25em;
562  margin-top: 36px;
563  margin-bottom: 24px;
564}
565
566@media(min-width: 1024px) {
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569    font-size: 30px;
570  }
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572
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574  font-weight: 300;
575  font-size: 20px;
576  line-height: 1.4em;
577  margin-top: 8px;
578  font-style: normal;
579}
580
581
582@media(min-width: 1080px) {
583  .centered h1 + h2 {
584    text-align: center;
585  }
586  dt-article h1 + h2 {
587    margin-top: 12px;
588    font-size: 24px;
589  }
590}
591
592/* H3 */
593
594dt-article h3 {
595  font-family: HoeflerText-Regular, Georgia, serif;
596  font-weight: 400;
597  font-size: 20px;
598  line-height: 1.4em;
599  margin-top: 36px;
600  margin-bottom: 18px;
601  font-style: italic;
602}
603
604dt-article h1 + h3 {
605  margin-top: 48px;
606}
607
608@media(min-width: 1024px) {
609  dt-article h3 {
610    font-size: 26px;
611  }
612}
613
614/* H4 */
615
616dt-article h4 {
617  font-weight: 600;
618  text-transform: uppercase;
619  font-size: 14px;
620  line-height: 1.4em;
621}
622
623dt-article a {
624  color: inherit;
625}
626
627dt-article p,
628dt-article ul,
629dt-article ol {
630  margin-bottom: 24px;
631  font-family: Georgia, serif;
632}
633
634dt-article p b,
635dt-article ul b,
636dt-article ol b {
637  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
638}
639
640dt-article a {
641  border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
642  text-decoration: none;
643}
644
645dt-article a:hover {
646  border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
647}
648
649dt-article .link {
650  text-decoration: underline;
651  cursor: pointer;
652}
653
654dt-article ul,
655dt-article ol {
656  padding-left: 24px;
657}
658
659dt-article li {
660  margin-bottom: 24px;
661  margin-left: 0;
662  padding-left: 0;
663}
664
665dt-article pre {
666  font-size: 14px;
667  margin-bottom: 20px;
668}
669
670
671dt-article hr {
672  border: none;
673  border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
674  margin-top: 60px;
675  margin-bottom: 60px;
676}
677
678dt-article section {
679  margin-top: 60px;
680  margin-bottom: 60px;
681}
682
683/* Tables */
684
685dt-article table {
686  border-collapse: collapse;
687}
688
689dt-article table th {
690  border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
691}
692
693dt-article table td {
694  border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
695}
696
697dt-article table th,
698dt-article table td {
699  font-size: 15px;
700  padding: 2px 0;
701}
702
703/* Figure */
704
705dt-article figure {

706  position: relative;
707  margin-top: 30px;
708  margin-bottom: 30px;
709}
710
711@media(min-width: 1024px) {
712  dt-article figure {
713    margin-top: 48px;
714    margin-bottom: 48px;
715  }
716}
717
718dt-article figure img {
719  width: 100%;
720}
721
722dt-article figure svg text,
723dt-article figure svg tspan {
724}
725
726dt-article figure figcaption {
727  color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
728  font-size: 12px;
729  line-height: 1.5em;
730}
731@media(min-width: 1024px) {
732  dt-article figure figcaption {
733    font-size: 13px;
734  }
735}
736
737dt-article figure.external img {
738  background: white;
739  border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
740  box-shadow: 0 1px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
741  padding: 18px;
742  box-sizing: border-box;
743}
744
745dt-article figure figcaption a {
746  color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
747}
748
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750  font-family: georgia;
751  font-size: 115%;
752  font-style: italic;
753}
754
755dt-article figure figcaption b {
756  font-weight: 600;
757  color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);
758}
759
760dt-article > dt-code,
761dt-article section > dt-code  {
762  display: block;
763}
764
765dt-article .citation {
766  color: #668;
767  cursor: pointer;
768}
769
770dt-include {
771  width: auto;
772  display: block;
773}
774/**
775 * prism.js default theme for JavaScript, CSS and HTML
776 * Based on dabblet (http://dabblet.com)
777 * @author Lea Verou
778 */
779
780code {
781  white-space: nowrap;
782  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);
783  border-radius: 2px;
784  padding: 4px 7px;
785  font-size: 15px;
786  color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
787}
788
789pre code {
790  display: block;
791  background: white;
792  border-left: 3px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
793  padding: 0 0 0 24px;
794}
795
796
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800  font-family: Consolas, Monaco, 'Andale Mono', 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace;
801  text-align: left;
802  white-space: pre;
803  word-spacing: normal;
804  word-break: normal;
805  word-wrap: normal;
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1053  <h1>Publishing in the Distill Research Journal</h1>
1054
1055<br>
1056
1057  <div style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 40px; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid hsla(40, 70%, 70%); background: hsla(40, 70%, 95%); border-radius: 4px;">
1058    Distill is <a href="https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/">on an indefinite hiatus</a> and no longer accepting
1059    submissions.</div>
1060
1061  <h2 id="why">Why Publish in Distill?</h2>
1062
1063  <div>
1064    <table class="distill-table">
1065      <tbody><tr class="normal-row">
1066        <td class="property">Flexibilityâ</td>
1067        <td class="reason"> Distill encourages you to go beyond traditional academic forms. The goal is to best communicate science and serve the reader.</td>
1068      </tr>
1069      <tr class="normal-row">
1070        <td class="property">Scholarly<br>Recognition</td>
1071        <td class="reason">Distill articles are peer reviewed and appear in Google Scholar.  Distill is also registered with the Library of Congress and CrossRef. &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="doi">ISSN: <a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2017201669">2476-0757</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DOI: <a href="http://doi.org/10.23915/distill">http://doi.org/10.23915/distill</a></span></td>
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1074        <td class="property">Neutrality</td>
1075        <td class="reason">Distill provides a neutral platform for multiple authors to jointly publish. This is in contrast to a personal website, where outside contributors may get less credit.</td>
1076      </tr>
1077      <tr class="normal-row">
1078        <td class="property">Impact</td>
1079        <td class="reason">Distill articles are read by tens of thousands of people.</td>
1080      </tr>
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1083  
1084  <hr>
1085
1086
1087  <h2 id="scope">Journal Scope</h2>
1088
1089  <p>Distill is an academic journal in the area of Machine Learning. The distinguishing trait of a Distill article is outstanding communication and a dedication to human understanding. Distill articles often, but not always, use interactive media.</p>
1090
1091  <p>One good test for whether your article is a fit for Distill is whether your collaborators and you are willing to put in whatever time is necessary to write and illustrate an outstanding article. In our experience, this often takes 100+ hours. Typically, this means that there is at least one collaborator who is very enthusiastic about explaining things well.</p>
1092
1093  <hr>
1094
1095  <h2 id="article-types">Article Types</h2>
1096
1097  <p>

1097Distill is open to publishing a wide range of academic artifacts, provided they meet our editorial standards:</p>
1098
1099  <div>
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1102        <td class="property">Researchâ</td>
1103        <td class="reason"> Distill publishes novel research results of significant interest to the community. </td>
1104      </tr>
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1106        <td class="property">Exposition</td>
1107        <td class="reason">Distill publishes articles explaining, synthesizing and reviewing existing research. This includes Reviews, Tutorials, Primers, and Perspective articles.
1108        <p class="minor-details">The editorial team is especially interested in <a href="http://explorableexplanations.com/">explorable explanations</a>.</p>
1109        <p class="minor-details"><b>Examples:</b> <a href="http://distill.pub/2017/momentum/">Why Momentum Really Works</a>, <a href="http://distill.pub/2016/augmented-rnns/">Attention and Augmented Recurrent Neural Networks</a></p> </td>
1110      </tr>
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1112        <td class="property">Commentary</td>
1113        <td class="reason">Distill occasionally publishes non-technical essays on topics ranging from public policy to meta-discussion of science.
1114        <p class="minor-details">Please discuss intentions with <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> prior to submission.</p>
1115        <p class="minor-details"><b>Examples:</b> <a href="http://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/">Research Debt</a></p></td>
1116      </tr>
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1118        <td class="property">Resources <br>&amp; Artifacts</td>
1119        <td class="reason">Distill is willing to publish non-traditional academic artifacts. This includes resources such as datasets and tools, but also more unusual artifacts.
1120        <p class="minor-details">Please discuss intentions with <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> prior to submission.</p></td>
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1124
1125  <p>There are no word count limits for any article type. Articles should be whatever length best serves the readerâââjust be aware that rambling is an easy failure mode.</p>
1126
1127
1128  <hr>
1129
1130  <h2 id="review-criteria">What Distill Reviews For</h2>
1131
1132  <p>Distill primarily reviews for three things:</p><p>
1133
1134  </p><div>
1135    <table class="distill-table">
1136      <tbody><tr class="normal-row">
1137        <td class="property">Advancing <br> Dialogue</td>
1138        <td class="reason">All Distill articles must significantly advance the research communityâs dialogue.
1139          <p class="minor-details">This could mean presenting significant novel results, giving a new perspective on known results, or even commentary on public policy.</p></td>
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1141      <tr class="normal-row">
1142        <td class="property">Outstanding<br>Communication</td>
1143        <td class="reason">Distill holds itself to an extremely high standard for communication.
1144          <p class="minor-details">This often, but not always, means that articles will use interactive media.</p></td>
1145      </tr>
1146      <tr class="normal-row">
1147        <td class="property">Scientific<br>Integrity </td>
1148        <td class="reason">Articles should not only accurately report results, but also make sure high-level description of work matches the results, and be transparent about any weaknesses.</td>
1149      </tr>
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1151  </div>
1152  
1153  <p>Distill provides the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16BNLdSmoUc1zqydECJ8trYkVNDnKVlxT57EEXhCxWSc/edit#">Distill Reviewer Worksheet</a> to help evaluate articles. Reviewers and authors alike are encouraged to refer to this worksheet, be it for self-evaluation or during the review process. </p>
1154
1155  <p>In order for Distill to best serve the community, and to create a respected space for non-traditional contributions, itâs critical for Distill to hold high publication standards. Unfortunately, this means many articles have to be rejected, including good articles that may be publishable elsewhere.</p>
1156
1157  <hr>
1158
1159  <h2 id="writing">Writing a Distill Article</h2>
1160
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1162    Distill is <a href="https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/">on an indefinite hiatus</a> and no longer accepting
1163    submissions.</div>
1164
1165  <p>Distill articles are prepared in HTML using the Distill infrastru

1165ctureâââsee the  <a href="http://distill.pub/guide/">getting started guide</a> for details. The infrastructure provides nice default styling and standard academic features while preserving the flexibility of the web.</p>
1166
1167  <p>Distill articles must be released under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution license</a>. Distill is a primary publication and will not publish content which is identical or substantially similar to content published elsewhere.</p>
1168
1169  <p>To submit an article, first create a GitHub repository for your article.<dt-fn><sup><span id="fn-1" data-hover-ref="dt-fn-hover-box-0" style="cursor:pointer">1</span></sup></dt-fn> You can keep it private during the review process if you would likeâââjust share your repository with <a href="https://github.com/distillpub-reviewers">@distillpub-reviewers</a>. Then email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> to begin the process.</p>
1170
1171  <p>Distill handles all reviews and editing through GitHub issues. Upon publication, the repository is made public and transferred to the <a href="https://github.com/distillpub">@distillpub</a> organization for preservation. This means that reviews of published work are always public. It is at the authorâs discretion whether they share reviews of unpublished work.</p>
1172
1173
1174  <hr>
1175
1176  <h2 id="review">The Distill Review Process</h2>
1177  
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1179    Distill is <a href="https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/">on an indefinite hiatus</a> and no longer accepting
1180    submissions.</div>
1181  <p>Distill only considers complete article submissions and evaluates them as is.</p>
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1289
1290  <hr>
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1292  <h2 id="conflicts-of-interest">Conflicts of Interest</h2>
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1294  <p>Distill editors cannot be involved in the review process for a paper on which they are an author or where they are unable to be objective. In the event of a conflict of interest, Distill editors will select a member of the research community to serve as a temporary âacting editorâ for an article. The acting editor should be a member of the relevant research community, and at armâs length to the authors. The use and identity of an acting editor will be noted in the review process log, and made public if the article is published.</p>
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1298  <hr>
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1300  <h2 id="dual-submissions">Dual Submission Policy</h2>
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1309    <li id="dual-submissions--preprints"><strong>ArXiv Paper:</strong> Researchers sometimes need to get results out quickly, and arXiv is a great vehicle for doing so. Distill is happy to publish a paper on research that has previously been published on arXiv, as long as thereâs a clear understanding that Distill is the formal publication.</li>
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1325  <h2 id="expand-team">Growing Distillâs Team</h2>
1326
1327  <p>Distill uses the following evaluation process for potential editors:</p>
1328
1329  <ul>
1330    <li>Write an outstanding Distill paper, demonstrating to us that they deeply understand Distillâs mission and have the technical skills needed to evaluate othersâ work.</li>
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1332    <li>Interviews with existing editors discussing Distillâs mission and the role of editors.</li>
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1335  <p>Being a Distill editor means taking on ownership and responsibility for the success of Distill and for publication decisions within your subject matter portfolio. Distill editors are volunteer positions with no compensationâââexcept playing a critical role in advancing a new kind of scientific publishing.</p>
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1337  
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1340  <h2 id="expand-scope">Growing Distillâs Scope</h2>
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