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The importance of looking up words you’re unfamiliar with is mentioned in part 2, and unfamiliarity with advanced terminology seems like it’s usually the primar
by didericis 6y ago
The importance of looking up words you’re unfamiliar with is mentioned in part 2, and unfamiliarity with advanced terminology seems like it’s usually the primary blocker for understanding a paper. At least it usually is for me.
When I try to understand a paper with a lot of terminology I’m new to, I try to translate it into more colloquial, but still precise language.
It’d be cool of there was some sort of software/way authors could add citations for advanced terms that could then be used to “decompress” the paper into an easier to understand but longer version of it. Then they could still write efficiently/describe the paper in the terms they use when working, and people without that context could automatically translate it into something more understandable.
Would also be cool if you could use something like that to measure how many “external dependencies” your paper has so you can then try to minimize them/get rid of unessential ones more easily.