There is one increasingly common kind of paper out there, the 'obfuscapaper'. It's a paper which pretends to outline all the steps, but really doesn't -- key in

There is one increasingly common kind of paper out there, the 'obfuscapaper'. It's a paper which pretends to outline all the steps, but really doesn't -- key information is either missing or obfuscated. You often see that with papers published by people working at companies, or by people who are about to leave academia to work at a company. Problem is, this kind of obfuscation is really difficult to spot unless you actually understand the paper and see all the steps necessary to implement the algorithm.