[Bloat] academic papers and dates (Re: a cheer-up paper on the state of online courses)

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Dave Taht wrote:

> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.06910.pdf

I have something I've been curious about for a long time. Why do these 
kinds of papers never have a date on them? I typically have to look at the 
citations to figure out an approximate posting date, there is no other way 
to tell how old a paper is?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se