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by tinalumfoil 2017 days ago
I enjoyed it but if you're 20 paragraphs in and bored I doubt you'd find the rest interesting.
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I've read plenty of technical papers that have interesting ideas buried in tons of bad prose. Holding the interestingness of the central idea fixed, there is no limit to how boring a writer can make things.

In general, I don't understand why blogs (and HN) are allergic to abstracts.