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Keep every paper for your project in one place. Get a clear summary of each, ask questions and see exactly which page the answer came from, then write your thesis or article with your sources right beside you.

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A Distari project library with folders, a paper list, and the original PDF open alongside it

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From reading list to finished draft.

No more juggling a folder of PDFs, a reference manager, a notes app and a word processor. Everything stays in one project, from the first paper you save to the last citation you add.

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Answers you can trust

Every answer shows where it came from.

Ask a question in plain language and get an answer drawn only from the papers you’ve added. Each citation opens the exact passage, so you can check it yourself before you quote it.

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Q Why did residual connections make very deep networks trainable?

Stacking more layers made plain networks harder to optimize, not just prone to overfitting. Learning a residual — the change on top of an identity mapping — gave each block an easy default , and normalizing layer inputs kept the signal stable as depth grew .

[1] Deep Residual Learning for Image RecognitionPage 2

“We explicitly let these layers fit a residual mapping… it is easier to optimize the residual mapping than to optimize the original, unreferenced mapping.”

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