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How to read a paper - depth
¡Approach
with scientific skepticism
¡Examine
the assumptions. Are they:
lRely
on any uncertain trends?
lReasonable?
¡e.g., “Let’s assume that there are billions of powerful computers, connected by a high speed network, spread across the world, our system will …”
¡e.g., “Our system
functions in real-time on a 33Mhz
Intel 386 with 640K main memory running
Windows 98”