Academic papers are pretty great actually.

You know they'll tell you:
- what the problem is
- a high-level description of their solution
- how it compares to other solutions

…and usually in the first 2-3 pages.

95% of blog posts / landing pages can't manage to do this.

I got more out of these two paragraphs on the *first page* of the QuickCheck paper than I did from a dozen blog posts on property-based testing. cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/arch…