Ask HN: How do you read Academic Papers?

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11 years ago

I have never really consciously taken the time to learn how to read academic papers, because it never occurred to me it's something I needed.

I replied to a tweet today suggesting people ought to take a course how to read them, and got a great reply from Glenn Vanderberg on a starting point:

https://twitter.com/glv/status/579411305347489792

Does anyone else have any thoughts or opinions about this? I have a hard time learning things. Maybe this insight is part of the reason why.

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