I am about to have an academic paper published about an algorithm I invented. I can explain this algorithm roughly to non technical people fairly easily. The

I am about to have an academic paper published about an algorithm I invented. I can explain this algorithm roughly to non technical people fairly easily. The paper itself is quite math heavy and some bits hardly make sense even to me, but that is what is expected in that world. So yes, reading academic papers can be helpful, but they are not written to be comprehensible, they are written to show off that you are part of the clever club. I often look for presentations or other explanations to make sense of the academic papers I have to read.