[HN Gopher] The Elements of Scientific Style
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       The Elements of Scientific Style
        
       Author : gglitch
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-02-27 18:25 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | kurthr wrote:
       | It does seem like one could use an LLM to summarize and explain
       | harder to read abstracts and even content for those not in the
       | field. This would be especially so if it were trained on the
       | scientific library to start with.
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       | This could be automated on a user by user basis avoiding what
       | happened (FTFA) to Distill.
        
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       | JorgeGT wrote:
       | This is so painfully true, please, do yourself a favor and read
       | the old papers of your field!
       | 
       | But, it takes courage to imitate our witty ancestors! I've been
       | sneered at by many reviewers for my attempts ("unscientific
       | style"?!). The best I've managed to pass through so far is
       | starting a paper with a quotation from an old Agatha Christie
       | novel: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.05.015 (free copy here:
       | https://core.ac.uk/reader/237464116 or at your local Sci-hub
       | domain).
        
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