Hmm. I see your points. I’ll try to structure future articles so that an above-the-fold abstract structure will work better, but I’m not convinced that my present post is long enough or self-evident enough to support it—at least not without an extensive rewrite. What I think I’ll do this weekend is add an Exercises section at the bottom with the techniques in concise form. Thanks!
Here’s an article that has an abstract in the first paragraph (although it’d be nice if it were called out as such), and a table of contents.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/md2/the_brain_as_a_universal_learning_machine/
[Added the Exercises section. I think the article is definitely better for it. Thanks for the advice.]
Hmm. I see your points. I’ll try to structure future articles so that an above-the-fold abstract structure will work better, but I’m not convinced that my present post is long enough or self-evident enough to support it—at least not without an extensive rewrite. What I think I’ll do this weekend is add an Exercises section at the bottom with the techniques in concise form. Thanks!