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		jorleif on March 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused I think the process of peer review often causes papers to be optimized for being hard to critique rather than easy to understand. I have myself participated in writing papers where we decided to leave out some non-crucial but very useful detail just because it opens up too many questions and opportunities for critique.

nly on March 5, 2014 | [–]

So "let's keep the source code closed so nobody can see how awful we are and just show off our wonderful working program"

pseut on March 6, 2014 | | [–]

The process of peer review also optimizes papers to be shorter than intended.

j2kun on March 5, 2014 | [–]

Is this in mathematics or another field?

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