no.114
On the half-life of citations.
A 2024 study finds the median paper is cited zero times after year three. We re-examine the dataset.
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A corkboard for the research-curious. Pinned, annotated, sometimes contradicting.
no.114
A 2024 study finds the median paper is cited zero times after year three. We re-examine the dataset.
no.087
Caffeine improves recall by 7% — but only in well-rested subjects, not the under-slept ones it is usually given to.
no.203
Productivity variance correlates with codebase familiarity, not innate skill. Implications for hiring.
no.041
Why publishing datasets does not, by itself, increase reproducibility — and what does.
no.156
Six categories of forecast error, and the surprising one that dominates economic models.
no.078
Why your most cited insight comes between hours 5 and 7 of REM, not at the desk.
/ thesis 01
For half a century the white paper has been the unit of "serious" institutional thinking — fifty pages bound in a PDF, downloaded once and read by no one. The format outlived its medium. Print logic on a screen is a museum exhibit, not a reading experience. We argue the right unit is the fragment: a 200-word claim, a citation, a counter-argument, all networked on a page that admits its own assembly.
This site is the experiment. Read it sideways.
"sideways" = code for nonlinear?/ citation
Beautiful Evidence.
"To clarify, add detail."
/ data
73%
of cited PDFs are never re-opened by the citing author.
— Internal sample, n=412
/ thesis 02
A footnote is not a defensive wall. It is an invitation to argue with someone who is not in the room. We model citations as connection lines, not numbered ornaments. Hover a fragment; the related papers light up. A bibliography is a graph, drawn flat.
If a paper has no enemies in its citation graph, it is probably not saying anything.
graph view = killer feature?/ definition
Marginalia n.
Notes written in the margin of a text, often more revealing than the text itself.
/ thesis 03
Linear documents pretend ideas arrive in order. They do not. The mind triangulates: a claim, a counter-example, a definition, a piece of data, all weighed at once. Layout is not decoration; it is the argument's shape. The broken grid you are reading is itself the thesis.
If you got here by scrolling top-to-bottom, you have already disagreed with us once. Good.
spicy ↑/ citation
The grid is a freedom.
"Constraints reveal intent."
/ note
We are publishing fragments, not finished papers. Each fragment has a version, a date, and a dispute history. Read changes, not conclusions.