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Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?

4•shriy-singh•5h ago
Which are the most memorable abstracts you have read? I know I am a jackass who usually vibecodes my way through assignments but even I don't want to write a cookie-cutter intro for my paper. I wanna write something that stays with the reader. What paper has stuck with you, what made it memorable?

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Rotundo•5h ago
Most memorable to me: https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1966-72-06/S0002-9904-1966...

Short, succinct and no AI in sight.

shriy-singh•3h ago
Oooh, thanks!
dekhn•5h ago
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf

"Abstract The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is very simple."

shriy-singh•3h ago
Appreciate it, thanks!
mac3n•4h ago
see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-968X.12...

include a SUMMARIUM in Latin and ΣΥΝΟΨΙΣ in Greek, for that real Scholar effect.

shriy-singh•3h ago
Haha, that oughta do the trick :D
JonChesterfield•4h ago
I'm well into the thousands of research papers read. Understood a fair fraction of them. Couldn't tell you what the abstract was for any. The memorable parts are the ideas and the results within the paper.

Some titles stick. "Attention is all you need". "SSA is functional programming". Plus more people see the title than read the abstract. Only one I got to name myself was "Shared Memory Remote Procedure Calls" which I now realise is in exactly the same theme of given the title, you don't need the abstract or the contents.

shriy-singh•3h ago
Gotta have a look at yours! And I remember the name "Attention is all you need" too!
XTXinverseXTY•2h ago
Hard to separate the memorability of the abstract from the underlying material.

IMO the most memorable papers contain some unexpected simplification: a complicated problem turns out to reduce to something much simpler [0], perhaps for a counterintuitive reason [1].

So a memorable abstract should advertise that the paper contains some cute little trick. This may not help you actually publish though

[0]: Attack the RLHF problem with a simple classification loss: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290

[1]: Frustratingly Easy Meta-Embeddings: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05262

NishanStepak•1h ago
The ones with a memorable idea from the paper. People like to read about ideas that are interesting. If you can summarize an interesting idea and put it in the abstract, it will make it better.

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