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Does anyone have an abstract or equivalent of this?
by renewiltord 3y ago
Does anyone have an abstract or equivalent of this?
- tptacek 3y agoThe title captures it well.
- renewiltord 3y agoWas curious what the answer was.
- tptacek 3y agoIt's long-form writing. The point of this story is to read it. If it's too long to read, you're probably not going to be interested in the details. They're sprinkled all across the story, anyways. Once upon a time, the mafia was big in Milwaukee. They killed this reporter's cousin. I think that's a fine summary.
- renewiltord 3y agoIt's fine. An LLM did a pretty good job. Thanks for your help.
- tptacek 3y agoSure. On a long-form journalism story, "can anybody summarize this" comes across as just a longer way of saying "tl;dr".
- renewiltord 3y agoI sometimes do it when I've read something and usually find it easy to do so for others. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35434603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35434603 is an example I was able to find in 10 s using algolia. Easier to see if payoff is worth it or if you're reading a recipe-like essay. Honestly, this is pretty normal stuff. No reason to be offended. It's not a personal request to you specifically.
- tptacek 3y agoIt can come across as a superficial complaint about the article. But I'm not sniping at you; I'm saying: if you're not interested in reading this article, the summary probably isn't that much more interesting to you. "There was a big Mafia presence in MKE" is pretty much the whole takeaway, to the extent you don't enjoy reading true crime stuff. It's more a reading-for-enjoyment kind of story than a trying-to-educate-you kind of story. The only thing you really missed was some potential enjoyment.