It feels ridiculous to see a 5-page paper with a 150-page appendix. Makes you question what is the paper.

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    I dunno, I kinda like the “breadth first” approach: abstract should basically tell you most of what you need, at a 30,000’ level, but maybe not convice you. Main text should convince you. Appendix should tell you how to perform the experiment yourself.

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      8 months ago

      I’m with you on that. My comment was more like sometimes the appendices seem to get out of hand. They probably contain entire papers there.