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What a strange attitude! There's plenty of zero-cost bits available to allow for articles of all sorts of lengths. For example, the "Foundations and Trends" journals (e.g. Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, or Foundations and Trends in Optimization) publish articles that are usually at least 100 pages long. These articles tend to be well-respected and highly cited. Longer articles have many advantages in all…
> There's plenty of zero-cost bits available to allow for articles of all sorts of lengths. Straw man - i wasn't talking about cost, hard drive space, or any relation near what you're referring to. > ...articles that are usually at least 100 pages long. These articles tend to be well-respected and highly cited. Another straw man - why does length (short or long) correlate with quality again? > Longer articles have ma…
Re: A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning
#21Academic writing is dense. When you shorten the page limit, you force authors to make it denser, to explain less and rely more on the readers' previous knowledge. As a writer, I'm often surprised how easy it is fill pages and pages, and as a reader, I'd rather read clear expository prose than wizardly hand-waving.