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jules on Nov 25, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Matt Blaze: No, You Can't Have My Slides

OTOH I have found slide decks from academic presentations of papers tremendously useful. You get the gist of a paper in a couple of minutes. Even reading the slides + reading the paper is quicker than just reading the paper if the slides are good, because you don't have to reread as much to understand the content.

rbonvall on Nov 25, 2010 [–]

If the slides are good to be read instead of the paper, they were probably awful as a support for the actual talk.

jules on Nov 25, 2010 | [–]

True, the best slide decks are slides decks that were intended exactly for this purpose and not for a talk.

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