I've read a lot of scientific papers in the comp sci / machine learning space and they are rarely precise. It's been over a decade since I've ready many papers so maybe this has changed, but I remember reading a paper out of Microsoft about how to make spell correcting auto-completion for search, and it was nearly impossible to figure out precisely how it was implemented. Precision would have been achieved easily by providing code and a sample data set. instead of was a mix of prose and math equations with many gaps where you had to guess how to fill.
Ah yes, my old supervisor was very fond of that strategy.
"Make it sound like we do cool stuff; but don't make it so precise that they can re-implement what we do. Let them come to us so we can co-author papers."
