I mean, I get that it’s easy to burn out on all the goofy titles. For example, in machine learning there’s a model architecture called BERT so there’s hundreds of papers with wordplay referencing a character from an old US children’s educational TV show Sesamie Street. Similarly a bunch of NEuroMOrphic computing models are named Nemo with titles referencing the Pixar movie Finding Nemo. Of course, any joke can be tiring with repetition.
But good papers are accessible to a variety of audiences, including visitors in the space, and the point of that technique is to offer a “hook” (to borrow a term from music) that makes the material more approachable and fun to the uninitiated.
Call me a downer if you want, but I think scientific papers should be above using clickbait titles. Scientific papers should be dry, boring and technical so that there’s no doubt that a paper is popular because of its content and not the personality of its writer.
I mean, I get that it’s easy to burn out on all the goofy titles. For example, in machine learning there’s a model architecture called BERT so there’s hundreds of papers with wordplay referencing a character from an old US children’s educational TV show Sesamie Street. Similarly a bunch of NEuroMOrphic computing models are named Nemo with titles referencing the Pixar movie Finding Nemo. Of course, any joke can be tiring with repetition.
But good papers are accessible to a variety of audiences, including visitors in the space, and the point of that technique is to offer a “hook” (to borrow a term from music) that makes the material more approachable and fun to the uninitiated.
TLDR: I empathize but yeah dude’s wrong
Call me a downer if you want, but I think scientific papers should be above using clickbait titles. Scientific papers should be dry, boring and technical so that there’s no doubt that a paper is popular because of its content and not the personality of its writer.