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A modern paper (fedia.io)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It feels ridiculous to see a 5-page paper with a 150-page appendix. Makes you question what is the paper.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 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.