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Right - if the paper is really good, it might take a few years to understand. Most papers can be read in < 10 seconds ("not interesting, next"). Most pretty g
by michael_nielsen 5y ago
Right - if the paper is really good, it might take a few years to understand.
Most papers can be read in < 10 seconds ("not interesting, next"). Most pretty good papers can be read in 5-10 minutes. Very good papers might take a few hours. And so on.
I'm caricaturing, but only a tiny bit, this is how I read. And for good stuff, that I want to understand, a page an hour is (often) pretty typical for my first fairly thorough read.
I've written two textbooks, and in both cases I thought of the book as the distilled outcome from reading about a dozen very important papers really thoroughly
- LaserPineapple 5y agoCan you say more about this? What accounts for the difference in time spent on a pretty good vs a very good paper? Is it that you find the material in a very good paper more worthwhile, and thus are willing to expend more effort to understand it?
- obua 5y agoI know you don't believe in formal logic, but maybe give this paper a chance: https://obua.com/publications/philosophy-of-abstraction-logic/2 https://obua.com/publications/philosophy-of-abstraction-logi...