{"id":589812,"date":"2024-01-18T05:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T10:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=589812"},"modified":"2024-01-18T05:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T10:58:17","slug":"simple-short-elegant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/18\/simple-short-elegant\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple, Short, Elegant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original Bitcoin paper from Satoshi\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 only 8 pages long???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bitcoin.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of bitcoin.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-edf1dd2d-9307-4044-a27d-449a3d4f28af\" href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bitcoin.pdf\">bitcoin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bitcoin.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-edf1dd2d-9307-4044-a27d-449a3d4f28af\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust long papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this is the simple heuristic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a paper is too long and convoluted, it is no good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typically when a paper is too long, it is a signal that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153something didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t distill right!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Taleb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or for me \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a paper is too long, it is a signal that the author doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really know what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about, or the idea is too convoluted and requires *MORE* text and *MORE* fake graphs and statistics and fake math to support their feeble point(s).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Bitcoin paper from Satoshi\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 only 8 pages long??? Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust long papers I think this is the simple heuristic: If a paper is too long and convoluted, it is no good. Why? Typically when a paper is too long, it is a signal that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153something didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t distill right!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Taleb Or for me \u00e2\u20ac\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589827,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589812\/revisions\/589827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}