Adding a "Behind the Scenes" appendix to papers to preserve research intuition
benno_krojer · x · 2026-10-28
Responding to concerns that journal versions and LLM-written papers lose a paper's original intuition, researcher bennokrojer shares his practice: a fixed "Behind the Scenes" appendix section documenting the messy, human side of the research process, including a first-time researcher's experience and lessons from end-to-end supervision (see Appendix F of his paper).
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