I prefer Yvain’s writing style to Eliezer’s, but Yvain also has the problem of being too verbose for my taste. In terms of information-to-words ratio, my opinion is that lukeprog’s writings outperform Eliezer’s and Yvain’s.
That’s not a good metric to maximize… There is probably some broad optimum preferred by maybe 80% of readers, and too dense or too watery writing is definitely inferior. There ought to be some relevant research out there.
I agree, I think a good writer has a sense when a particular part of his argument is tricky or more difficult to grasp so he may add additional explanations or examples even though he has already made the point.
I prefer Yvain’s writing style to Eliezer’s, but Yvain also has the problem of being too verbose for my taste. In terms of information-to-words ratio, my opinion is that lukeprog’s writings outperform Eliezer’s and Yvain’s.
That’s not a good metric to maximize… There is probably some broad optimum preferred by maybe 80% of readers, and too dense or too watery writing is definitely inferior. There ought to be some relevant research out there.
I agree, I think a good writer has a sense when a particular part of his argument is tricky or more difficult to grasp so he may add additional explanations or examples even though he has already made the point.