News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on "To our surprise". Parent comment

Re:"To our surprise" by bonoboTP on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:42PM (#27089684)
I mean, you wouldn't emulate the average paper though, but the ones from the best labs in your field, the papers that get awards etc.

I think it's actually better to seek writing advice on the Internet (not from randos, but if you're cut out for a PhD you should be able to tell apart crap advice from good ones.) I'm pretty sure it's better than whatever my university could offer as a course.

And just as everywhere, 90% of everything is crap. Perhaps more than 90% of papers are crap and 90% of academics have nothing to say and write terribly to hide it.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:"To our surprise" by data_acquired on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:12PM (#27107618)
Fair enough. It does sound like you fall/fell on the more advanced side of the grad student curve though. +1 on 90% of papers having nothing much to say.
[ Parent | on HN ]