Use fewer sentences and clauses Use simpler words Get to the point Structure your arguments
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A lot of papers on arxiv read like they were generated by a Transformer Technical writing is about conveying precise information as efficiently as possible, not about stitching words together in a plausible fashion while saying as little as possible
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Go Warren!
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True while writing a microwave manual, but not so much in case of a research paper. Good article should also try to engage the reader. We are human beings, we get tired and bored after longer interactions with dry, precise texts. And that kills their supposed efficiency.
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I have a nasty suspicion that maybe they are written by bots.
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Yeah, but why?
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It’s because they’re written by software engineers who have minimal experience writing plain English.
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A lot of people are writing with English as their 2nd language too.
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It's not just in ML. It cuts across many fields.
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