AI is advancing at an enormous pace, so we all benefit from people who writes blogs or presentations about a paper. If you are the one doing a presentation about a paper, you may want to watch for the following:

• use the area in your slides – dont make figs/fonts small while there is lots of wasted space or background image everywhere
• people cannot always follow your talk, so add some text to your slides (do not just put a table, but add 2 lines of summary of the table).
• people usually read from top-left to bottom-right, so that’s how you should order your points
• make some text parts bold/colored to improve readability
• never have more than 2 lines of text without any break; you can make parts bold/colored, or better split it into bullet points
• uniformity is important – follow the same style, location across slides or bullet items (so do not have one bullet item in active tone while others are in passive tone, lowercase/uppercase, non-uniform punctuation,…,…)
• get the main idea across really well (sometimes people say the main thing quickly and dwell on less important details) to everyone and you may go over the rest more quickly. Time spent should be proportional to information value.
• if it is your work you are presenting, you can start with the dumb/base idea and then motivate the understanding by letting the audience think what is challenging, or why this is not a straightforward solution…

Note, there are many nice and longer write-ups on the topic (there was one on Twitter I had seen a few months back), but I wanted to share some quickly as well.

Let me know if you have any questions/comments. I only get medical spam these days. :)