Technique notes, paper highlights, and shipping log. Written when we have something specific to say.
A paper-highlight deep-read on Mixtral, the open-weights Sparse Mixture of Experts model from Mistral. What the routing buys, what it costs, when you'd use it.
Jun 5, 2026
Shipping log for the v1 launch. The pivots that didn't make it, the constraints we kept, and what's next.
Jun 5, 2026
The same Mixtral abstract, summarised five different ways. What changes between profiles, and why we picked those five.
Jun 5, 2026
What the senior PhDs we talked to do differently from year 1. Nine habits that survive the workload shift between coursework and dissertation, plus the ones that look productive but break by year 3.
May 28, 2026
Honest comparison of 8 newsletters by what each is best for, written by the team building one of them. Where each shines, where each falls short, and which pick survives past month 3.
May 6, 2026
Concrete workflow that survives past 6 months. Seven steps, ninety minutes, one weekly batch. The triage rules that decide what you actually read.
Apr 15, 2026
Decision framework for whether a per-reader-profile arXiv digest fits your workflow, written by the team building DIGEST. Where it pays off, where it does not, and the seven questions that surface the answer.
Mar 24, 2026
What the workflow looks like for people who actually maintain it past 6 months. Nine approaches, who each fits, and the tradeoffs we have seen burn researchers we have talked to.
Mar 2, 2026
