IMO it's much easier for you to answer your specific question with an easy search than it is for article authors to anticipate every question and keep answering it in every article.
There's already tons of expert written and reviewed content designed to teach science. Go buy any textbook on the subject. You can usually get them very cheaply if you don't mind older editions. Libraries will also have these types of books you can checkout for free. Once you've exhausted information found in textbooks you can start actually reading the scholarly journals these pop-sci articles are written about. Once you've read enough scholarly journals, you might have your own questions that aren't answered yet. Then, you can conduct your own science......
Books are great for looking up quick tidbits of information too. Chapter titles and indexes are great for jumping to relevant information.
Google is way lower friction, but even that requires some manual sorting through.
Seems like exactly the thing a good language model would be great at. If they can't do that, where the stakes are low and the task is exactly the domain of LLMs, then I don't see how they'd be useful for anything.
I think I'm optimizing for the correct variables.
For the qubit example, they're not asking for the article to always describe what a qubit is, just if you're going to only write it as "α|0⟩ + β|1⟩" it would be helpful to put (qubit quantum state) the first time you do so in the article.
Such content doesn't need to be right in the beginning of an article, it could be linked to or at the bottom of the page.
ψ – psi – pronounced "psaai" (as in "top side") or "saai" (as in "side").
from "Pronunciation of the Greek alphabet in English":
https://jakubmarian.com/pronunciation-of-the-greek-alphabet-...
And I wonder how useful symbols like æ ə ʌ are to people asking how to pronounce Greek.
So...why don't we spell all languages with that alphabet? Think of the increase in efficiency!
My doctor has signs and other notices that you should arrive 15 minutes before your appointment. I asked "why don't you just make all the appointments 15 minutes earlier?"
Generally speaking, the Great Vowel Shift did quite a number on anything originally Latin or Greek.
It will drive them crazy.
I agree. Scientific research should be for everyone, including people who would like reliable text-to-speech versions of definitions.
I invite you (and the author of the comment you replied to) to take up any of the four suggestions at the bottom of https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility.html