less pretentiousness, more sincerity. papers have become the tool for claiming victory and fundings. The authors don't sincerely want you to understand them. They don't want you to understand how moon landing works, they only want you to see they lifted the flag on the moon.
I think papers should have more intuitions and visuals. Both data and programs should be included, in addition to static contents.
I once read a great article on paper being obsolete. I can't agree more.
"It was a shame that in mathematics it’s been a tradition for hundreds of years to make papers as formal and austere as possible, often suppressing the very visual aids that mathematicians use to make their discoveries."
I think papers should have more intuitions and visuals. Both data and programs should be included, in addition to static contents.
I once read a great article on paper being obsolete. I can't agree more.
"It was a shame that in mathematics it’s been a tradition for hundreds of years to make papers as formal and austere as possible, often suppressing the very visual aids that mathematicians use to make their discoveries."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scie...
The author showed the importance of research being interactive and reproducible.
I think a very good example of interactive journal is https://distill.pub/
That article helped spark my project too.
https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2...