Papyros

Paper Club.

A small group that reads one canonical paper together, every week — the original, not the summary.

Tashkent · weekly

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Why a room, why one paper

Reading is not skimming

A canonical paper takes an evening to read properly. A room where everyone finishes it is rarer than it should be.

Arguments make it stick

You understand a paper when someone across the table disagrees with your reading of it.

One a week compounds

Fifty-two papers a year is a different intellectual life. The archive here is the trail we leave.

From the group chat

the crispr paper is from 2012. my aunt's cancer treatment uses crispr.

i had to stop reading the attention paper after every paragraph because i needed to think

just realized bitcoin was described completely in 8 pages in 2008 and it's been 16 years of people arguing about it

the turing paper reads like a story. i didn't expect to feel something.

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