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Proofreading is enormously expensive in time and, as a spouse, goodwill. More so if you have to proofread their colleagues papers as well, where the level of En

Proofreading is enormously expensive in time and, as a spouse, goodwill. More so if you have to proofread their colleagues papers as well, where the level of English can vary enormously. Perhaps it's time to reimagine the scientific paper in a more terse format with more declarative statements and data rather than the mini-novel. That would make machine translation more tractable and may even lead to better tools to check assertions and search related work.

tetris11 3y ago
Nature is really good at giving you a spec with examples and guidelines you need to adhere to
- JadeNB 3y ago
  For a moment I didn't parse that as the name of a journal, but as a statement about the natural world, and it sounded wise but I couldn't figure out what it meant.
  - xxs 3y ago
    It should have an article (the) in such a case.
    - JadeNB 3y ago
      > It should have an article (the) in such a case. I'm not quite sure what you mean. tetris11's meaning is clear, and I was just making a whimsical observation, but I think it is possible (though clearly wrong in context) to parse: > Nature is really good at giving you a spec with examples and guidelines you need to adhere to as telling you something about the behavior of nature, analogous to "nature does nothing in vain" (Google's first auto-complete suggestion when I asked it for a sample sentence).
    - TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
      Nature is really good at giving you a spec with examples and guidelines you need to adhere to. The italics matter. But neither case, the magazine or actual nature, should have the definite article.
- hospitalJail 3y ago
  Journal worship is a problem IMO. Not sure why they are the gatekeepers of science. It seems like something out of the 1970s before the era of internet. Its good to see that people are able to write a paper and just post it on a website.
  - kaba0 3y ago
    We need some form of authority even more than ever before. We have way too many anti-intellectual voices already, and people will believe a flashy facebook page and memes more than a peer-reviewed article.

tetris11 3y ago

Nature is really good at giving you a spec with examples and guidelines you need to adhere to

JadeNB 3y ago
For a moment I didn't parse that as the name of a journal, but as a statement about the natural world, and it sounded wise but I couldn't figure out what it meant.
- xxs 3y ago
  It should have an article (the) in such a case.
  - JadeNB 3y ago
    > It should have an article (the) in such a case. I'm not quite sure what you mean. tetris11's meaning is clear, and I was just making a whimsical observation, but I think it is possible (though clearly wrong in context) to parse: > Nature is really good at giving you a spec with examples and guidelines you need to adhere to as telling you something about the behavior of nature, analogous to "nature does nothing in vain" (Google's first auto-complete suggestion when I asked it for a sample sentence).
  - TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
    Nature is really good at giving you a spec with examples and guidelines you need to adhere to. The italics matter. But neither case, the magazine or actual nature, should have the definite article.
hospitalJail 3y ago
Journal worship is a problem IMO. Not sure why they are the gatekeepers of science. It seems like something out of the 1970s before the era of internet. Its good to see that people are able to write a paper and just post it on a website.
- kaba0 3y ago
  We need some form of authority even more than ever before. We have way too many anti-intellectual voices already, and people will believe a flashy facebook page and memes more than a peer-reviewed article.