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you must be way smarter than me. it can take me months / years to understand papers that are not in my field.
by andrewcooke 13y ago
you must be way smarter than me. it can take me months / years to understand papers that are not in my field.
- petercooper 13y agoI think there are different levels of understanding. I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm an extremely pragmatic sort of reader and will move on from material once I "feel" I have a grasp of the concepts involved and can "see where the author(s) are coming from". Others might not be comfortable with saying they understand a paper until they reach a similar level of insight as the authors and perhaps even the level to reproduce the results.