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Comment by simonw | Hacker News Reader

I wish more people would publish this kind of content.

Academic papers aren't really designed for casual reading - I always find them to be a bit of a slog. It would be great if it was much more common for people to share their notes like this.

I'm going to try and remember to write more of these in the future.

I should add that I found this particular paper to be a whole lot more readable than most!

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I try to do paper reviews (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31379383) because it is a great way for me to learn more and _hopefully_ share in a way that is useful for others . My writing abilities are still a work in progress :)

That one is great, thank you!

Simon's writing has always been crisp and insightful. If I remember correctly, Simon comes out of a newspaper background. I wonder how that's influenced his approach on these sorts of technical topics.

You realise you're replying to Simon about Simon, right?

Now you made me wonder if Simon realize that he's talking about Simon's paper.

I've spent a bunch of time working at newspapers and surrounded by journalists but I've never done any actual writing as part of that. My writing experience almost all comes from having a bluf for twenty years!

for anyone interested in a blog with a bunch of similar types of summaries of papers, here's a good one:

https://blog.acolyer.org/

Great suggestion and thank you for leading with a nice example!

I enjoyed reading your notes and benefited immensely from them.

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