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Is the styling of the paper really a barrier to understanding? Like, sure, this _could_ benefit outsiders, but I don't think most technical papers are written w
by zero-sharp 2y ago
Is the styling of the paper really a barrier to understanding? Like, sure, this _could_ benefit outsiders, but I don't think most technical papers are written with the purpose of being accessible or aesthetic. And that's absolutely not a fault of academia.
- lupire 2y agoWhy should academics torture each other with poorly formatted papers? We don't like reading these newspaper-column style papers any more than lay people do.
- somethingsome 2y agoYou don't like it.. I know many academics, and I'm one of them that like very much 2 column information dense papers..