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Sometimes it feels like papers authors consider their audience as children.
by The_rationalist 5y ago
Sometimes it feels like papers authors consider their audience as children.
- toxik 5y agoIt's such a cheap trick too, basically clickbait.
- bonoboTP 5y agoBut it works, for example it got to the top of HN.
- ausbah 5y agoto be fair many of the tasks of machine learning are things children do like telling if something is a dog, coloring in a a picture, solving a maze, etc.
- edmundsauto 5y agoCommunication is based on the lowest common denominator. The best communication can be understood by a wide range of audiences. Have you considered that you weren't the intended audience?
- jgalt212 5y agoI don't know about that. It's probably driven by the need to for a short attention* gathering title. * I see what I did there.
- bonoboTP 5y agoThe field is certainly moving in a direction of infantilization due to the social media attention economy. Your paper competes with cute flashy cat gifs etc. on Twitter. And Twitter is ridiculously important in AI/ML, except perhaps above 50-60 years of age.
- touisteur 5y agoA little whimsy doesn't hurt... Nobody said science and research had to be dry and witless.