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I know this comment doesn't add much to the discussion, but why, god, why does the author feel the need to write completely in lowercase? It seems completely un
by hollownobody 2y ago
I know this comment doesn't add much to the discussion, but why, god, why does the author feel the need to write completely in lowercase? It seems completely unnecessary. Impress with your words, not with a weird formatting.
- keyle 2y agoI felt the same. Especially someone who claims to have and, some of these PhD students and postdocs are my own under my supervision How can you supervise students and write this way? This doesn't make any sense to me.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoAt least we know it was not written by an LLM. Maybe that's why they chose to do it.
- PKop 2y agoI agree, it's a very annoying trend recently. Just use proper capitalization, stop calling attention to your writing style.
- layer8 2y agoCompletely agree, it made it hard to continue reading, and to take the author seriously. I wonder if they write their papers the same way.
- sinuhe69 2y agoOh, I haven’t even realized that because I let ElevenLab read for me!
- sinuhe69 2y agoPeople are really not nice today! :( I have a problem with my eyesight and I tried to avoid reading as much as I can. So I use an app to read aloud most things. I’m not trying to endorse it or anything.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 2y agoDownvotes are often capricious, including on HN. At the end of the day it's just numbers in a database somewhere. It's actually kind of surprising how seriously people take it. I can easily imagine someone saying to the inventor of downvotes: "Yeah but what happens if people just... ignore the number? Why would anyone actually give a crap?"
- sinuhe69 2y agoYes, normally, I just ignore it, too. But today I feel a bit different. Sorry for the sentimental note.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoMerry christmas total stranger on the internets <3
- sinuhe69 2y agoThank you for your time. A very Merry Christmas to you.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 2y agoMerry Christmas -- hope you feel better!
- sinuhe69 2y agoMuch appreciated! Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoSome of the best conversations I've seen on HN were when someone was being downvoted to light gray and still making their point carefully and at length, not at all inhibited by the dogpiling. And so where, inevitably, some of the worst.
- waltbosz 2y agoThe lowercase formatting reminded me of my uncle who used to write exclusively in uppercase. His reasoning was that lower case letters were superfluous. Also something about how uppercase letters were invented to distinguish between royals and commoners in writing (I'm not sure how true that was). Funnily enough, he has started publishing academic papers in which he uses proper casing.
- tlhunter 2y agoI hand write in full caps as it helps with legibility
- cobertos 2y agoThe effort it takes most people to write, publish, and share their ideas is already steep. Id much rather this than them not sharing it at all for trivialities such as capitalization.
- IshKebab 2y agoThey aren't avoiding proper capitalisation due to the effort it takes - they have no issue with PhD, AI, NeurIPS. It's a conscious "look at my weird formatting, aren't I smart?" decision. Definitely grates.
- mulmboy 2y agoit's a stylistic choice, youthful & casual,,
- motoxpro 2y agoAlso doesn't add much, but I was waiting for this comment. It makes me laugh that non-capitalization (or non-conformative structure) is the bane of HN's existence.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoMost likely the author is a vim user and did an accidental guG:w