<story><title>Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVtqmejL/view</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlthoughts2018</author><text>An underappreciated aspect of this is finding an academic department that would allow you to submit something this concise as a senior thesis.&lt;p&gt;My experience, mostly in grad school, was that anyone editing my work wanted more verbiage. If you only needed a short, one-sentence paragraph to say something, it just wasn’t accepted. There had to be more.&lt;p&gt;Jeff Dean is an uncommonly good communicator. But he also benefited from being allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to prioritize effective and concise communication.&lt;p&gt;Most people aren’t so lucky, and end up learning that this type of concision will not go over well. People presume you’re writing like a know-it-all, or that you didn’t do due diligence on prior work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>busyant</author><text>&amp;gt; anyone editing my work wanted more verbiage&lt;p&gt;I _never_ got that feedback. My mentors all emphasized economy of language and nobody cared how &amp;quot;thick&amp;quot; my thesis was.&lt;p&gt;This is a pretty amusing story about verbiage.&lt;p&gt;Back in the old days, you would send a manuscript&amp;#x2F;research article to colleagues&amp;#x2F;friends by _snail-mail_ to get their feedback. You&amp;#x27;d wait a month, and maybe they would mail a &amp;#x27;red-inked&amp;#x27; copy of your manuscript back to you.&lt;p&gt;My Ph.D. advisor sent out a draft to a colleague who was famous for being harsh with the red-ink.&lt;p&gt;After a month, my advisor receives the manuscript in the mail.&lt;p&gt;* He turns to page 1. No red ink!&lt;p&gt;* He turns to page 2. STILL no red ink! [He must looove the paper]&lt;p&gt;* Keeps turning pages (no red ink!!).&lt;p&gt;* On page 10--in red ink--is written, &amp;quot;Start here.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVtqmejL/view</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlthoughts2018</author><text>An underappreciated aspect of this is finding an academic department that would allow you to submit something this concise as a senior thesis.&lt;p&gt;My experience, mostly in grad school, was that anyone editing my work wanted more verbiage. If you only needed a short, one-sentence paragraph to say something, it just wasn’t accepted. There had to be more.&lt;p&gt;Jeff Dean is an uncommonly good communicator. But he also benefited from being allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to prioritize effective and concise communication.&lt;p&gt;Most people aren’t so lucky, and end up learning that this type of concision will not go over well. People presume you’re writing like a know-it-all, or that you didn’t do due diligence on prior work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Certhas</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kind of remarkable. There really is no literature review in this paper. As a supervisor I would have no problem with a content part of this length, but I would also insist on doing the scholarly work that is not demonstrated here. Don&amp;#x27;t just throw out some code and describe it but put it into the context of what exists. Give credit to where ideas originate.&lt;p&gt;That shouldn&amp;#x27;t add too much. No more than a few pages. It would still concise but then also a scientific work.</text></comment>