> I largely agree that posters have a lot of unnecessary detail, but I think it's a different flavour to the LLM stuff - more like they're so excited to tell yo

> I largely agree that posters have a lot of unnecessary detail, but I think it's a different flavour to the LLM stuff - more like they're so excited to tell you everything in their paper. Having been through so many, I get what you mean but broadly disagree. They have not actually considered or understood the audience. > Can I ask, if you use LLMs often in your work, have you never run into this experience? I have, but I also have with people and to a greater extent. And this isn't some gotcha I'm throwing out it's so incredibly common and a well thought out piece really working with the audience is so rare that this is the standard for talks/posters/etc. Far beyond blog posts about an e reader I'm talking about people giving the most important presentations of their lives. And far from not appreciating the mental state of the audience they'll not even consider whether what is put on the screen can even be viewed by them! "You can't see this but..." is something I've heard too many times. This isn't however a case of that, it's adding in a duplicate bit of information about something that is genuinely important. It's not an odd detail, it's absolutely central to the plot. It's the point of the plot that one shows a repeating 8 (specifically 8 not 7) pixel pattern and the other does not. > Pretty much yep - it struck me as odd It's repeating a point about a visualisation that is not obvious at first glance. Frankly given most people would scan through this (one of the other comments complaining in parallel didn't seem to even get why it was 8) calling it out in the viz itself I'm not certain is a bad idea. This is a fun blog post about hardware issues, an ereader and power. And the top comment is about one axis label on a plot, not even whether it's correct just why it adds what is seen as a correct and relevant but repeated bit of information.