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I recently requested the slides for a talk I unfortunately missed at a recent conference. There were plenty of areas that didn't make sense without hearing and seeing the actual talk, but overall I was able to get enough information out of it using common logic to make it useful.

Who cares if some guy requests your slides. If he is unable to figure out the gist of the talk, or at least the gist of snippets of the talk, then that is his problem for missing the lecture and not taking personal notes. If he's able to get some information out of it, then great, we all win and the presenter doesn't have to do much more work except provide a link.



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