[gromneer]

> Also when this person says the subscript "denotes the order of the measurement" I'm trying to figure out what kind of order he's talking about.

I hate that the most when reading papers. Authors trying to sound abstract and academic, but only accomplishing being frustratingly vague. AUTHORS YOU STILL HAVE TO INSERT THE SUBJECT INTO YOUR SENTENCES FOR THEM TO MAKE SENSE.

I'm so frustrated at this aspect in research papers more than anything else. You must disambiguate. Use absolute descriptors and do not use relative descriptors. Don't tell me to look right, because I'll look left. Use absolute descriptors! "then after spinning the prism the light cone blah blah blah" SPIN!? SPIN IN WHAT DIRECTION????? LEFT?RIGHT?! LATERAL? UP? DOWN???? How fast? How slow? You imagine all of these CRITICAL ASPECTS in your head when writing such ambiguous sentences, but the reader cannot read your mind.

[saulrh]

Having written papers like this before, a large part of the problem is that almost all CS research is published in conferences, rather than journals, and conferences frequently have extremely strict length limits, on the order of three or five pages. If you have an even slightly complicated procedure it can be nightmarishly difficult to get even the core information into your paper, and you can forget about details or tangents.