• Flying Squid
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    37 months ago

    Successful writers generally don’t just make stuff up. They do plenty of research.

      • Flying Squid
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        -47 months ago

        True, but you can compare writing 4000 novels a year with being able to write 80 papers a few pages long in 2.5 and say that both are possible.

        • @refalo@programming.dev
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          7 months ago

          He didn’t write all those papers. He put his name on them. He also finds it worth his time to publicly argue with a pig in shit, so there’s that.

        • @candybrie@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          The writing of the paper is generally a trivial part of the work. Each technical paper is supposed to be a succinct summary of months or years of technical work.