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Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when reading scientific papers?
- MilnerRoute 2y agoBesides paywalls? I wish the "Conclusion" section were easier to get to. It's sometimes re-stated in the first/summary paragraph - but I feel like every single time, I have to hunt for the meat of what was found by scrolling down to the conclusion.
- elviejo79 2y agoIn this regard I find medical papers much better than CS ones. The ones in medicine in the abstract write the methodology, the results the CI (confidence interval) and the conclusions. Very good abstracts.
- fragmede 2y agohonestly? the formatting. I know we all love LaTeX and pdfs but reading them on a smartphone is an exercise in frustration. Printing them out isn't great for the planet and my Kindle is the regular size one.
- elviejo79 2y ago1000 upvotes. I wish papers were written in html or markdown... and the beautiful typography applied later with latex.
- retrocryptid 2y agoI would love it if authors would put the date the paper was written in the paper itself. I think that's standard for the iacr eprint archive, but sadly missing for many other disciplines.