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I doubt she wrote a single word in that paper.
by xyzzy4 10y ago
I doubt she wrote a single word in that paper.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoWhy? It's not unheard of that an actress contributes to technology[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y agoI don't think I've ever heard the actor in question express anything interesting—let alone persuasive—about the universe. I'd call this a minimum for contributing to research. This looks like a blatant publicity stunt, to be even blunter.
- finnh 10y agoShe directed the movie, and provided the painting that was used for the "other half" of the style transfer - so was critical to creating both inputs and guiding the final result. That alone is more involvement than some PhD advisors have in papers they co-authored. And she may of course delved much further into the technical side of things that what I've described above.
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y agoThis may speak more to the uselessness of what it means to be attached to a paper more than any one person. It still seems like the authorship is a means to an end of eyeballs. Academia drags its body slowly on....
- mikeash 10y agoMore examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number#Actors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number#Actors
- avn2109 10y agoA nonspecialist such as Stewart may or may not have contributed to the paper. All the evidence we have now is her name on the paper (for which there is obviously a strong propaganda/PR incentive for all authors, so that evidence should be at least partially discounted). I certainly wouldn't consider this (fairly thin) body of evidence dispositive in an unusual situation such as this. I'd be more convinced by e.g. a string of commits on the paper's repo coming from her account (if we were confident that her account was really hers). The parent's skepticism seems to me entirely warranted, given the currently available evidence, and I don't think it should be downvoted.
- pizza 10y agoI was going to comment this exact article earlier but I thought I would just seem like some vocal minority. I'm glad you linked this.
- pasbesoin 10y agoLook at some of her smaller, more independent role choices. Some smart and interesting choices, very well executed. I don't believe this can be simply ascribed to "handling." She catches considerable grief for some big, very-well-paid, and "sparkly" roles (thanks, Craig Ferguson). Sometimes, she almost seems to share that attitude herself about them. But she's also entrenched herself as a very moneyed, A-List actor. I wonder what she may use that for and where she may take it.
- Avshalom 10y agoIt's always worth remembering that theatre kids are nerds; they're nerds on a level that makes "good at math" look like division winning quarterback.
- vogt 10y agoGiven that most hollywood actors and actresses come from theater in one form or another (especially, at minimum, "theater kid" groups in HS), the latter part of that is debatable.
- Avshalom 10y agoI mean maybe Disney's High School Musical series gave them a bit of a boost in the aughts but I'm pretty sure Rent-heads will always be at the bottom of the social totem pole.
- vogt 10y agoI don't know where you're from, but where I'm from, the math/computer nerds were a billion times more outcasted than the theater nerds ever were in HS. I've lived all over the country since and found that to consistently be the case.