Reading scientific papers is a skill that needs to be developed through practice
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jtleek/readingpapers: A guide to reading scientific papers
The academic paper is still the primary way of distributing new knowledge to the world. There are other ways too, with code, or blogs, or twitter. But academic papers are still the gold standard and where the vast majority of new scientific discoveries are reported.
I like that this is published on GitHub - if the author got something wrong or missed something, fork it and issue a pull request!