An underappreciated aspect of this is finding an academic department that would allow you to submit something this concise as a senior thesis. My experience, mostly in grad school, was that anyone editing my work wanted more verbiage. If you only needed a short, one-sentence paragraph to say something, it just wasn’t accepted. There had to be more. Jeff Dean is an uncommonly good communicator. But he also benefited f…
I value conciseness dearly, and prefer quality over quantity in scientific writing, i.e. I would accept incredibly short theses, if the content is sufficiently presented (reproducible and comprehensive), and most of all, contains a valuable contribution.
The reason I typically have to request "more verbiage" and an own section on the state of the art, is because I need to force my students to confront their sitcom ideas with the history of "what has been done before, and what the actual current problems are".
Unfortunately, the approaches of most students are neither new nor particularly interesting in this regard.