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Why no author names on the article?

cma 9y ago
One of us. Apparently now that they aren't allowed to collude to price-fix salaries with illegal anti-"poaching" agreements, they aren't letting employees have names. Can't "poach" (normal people call it "hire") 'em if you can't name 'em.
dgacmu 9y ago
That's really weird. That said, they reference "our" work (i.e., their work) as citation [10], so one concludes it's likely a subset of the paper authors: [10] A. Shrivastava, T. Pfister, O. Tuzel, J. Susskind, W. Wang, R. Webb, Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. CVPR, 2017.
rrmm 9y ago
This sort of thing has actually been dealt with in the past. In 1908, William Gosset working for Guinness brewery in Dublin, published his statistical work under the pen name of "Student." Which gave us the oddly named "Student's t-test," and related distributions.
- rayuela 9y ago
  I don't know how I never knew this fact, but this is pretty hilarious!
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matt4077 9y ago
I don't know enough about the culture at Apple, but maybe they're going for a sort of "this is a team effort"? Kinda like the story of JFK asking a janitor at NASA what he does, promoting the answer "I'm putting a man on the moon". I'm somewhat sceptical that such a policy is better than what's usually practiced, but I can imagine that it may be legitimate under the right circumstances.
- Nuance 9y ago
  I imagine their reasoning is similar to The Economist's for having anonymous bylines: "The main reason for anonymity, however, is a belief that what is written is more important than who writes it. In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, our editor from 1938 to 1956, anonymity keeps the editor 'not the master but the servant of something far greater than himself…it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle.'" https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-itself-1 https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/e...

cma 9y ago

One of us. Apparently now that they aren't allowed to collude to price-fix salaries with illegal anti-"poaching" agreements, they aren't letting employees have names. Can't "poach" (normal people call it "hire") 'em if you can't name 'em.

dgacmu 9y ago

That's really weird. That said, they reference "our" work (i.e., their work) as citation [10], so one concludes it's likely a subset of the paper authors: [10] A. Shrivastava, T. Pfister, O. Tuzel, J. Susskind, W. Wang, R. Webb, Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. CVPR, 2017.

rrmm 9y ago

This sort of thing has actually been dealt with in the past. In 1908, William Gosset working for Guinness brewery in Dublin, published his statistical work under the pen name of "Student." Which gave us the oddly named "Student's t-test," and related distributions.

rayuela 9y ago
I don't know how I never knew this fact, but this is pretty hilarious!

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matt4077 9y ago

I don't know enough about the culture at Apple, but maybe they're going for a sort of "this is a team effort"? Kinda like the story of JFK asking a janitor at NASA what he does, promoting the answer "I'm putting a man on the moon". I'm somewhat sceptical that such a policy is better than what's usually practiced, but I can imagine that it may be legitimate under the right circumstances.

Nuance 9y ago
I imagine their reasoning is similar to The Economist's for having anonymous bylines: "The main reason for anonymity, however, is a belief that what is written is more important than who writes it. In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, our editor from 1938 to 1956, anonymity keeps the editor 'not the master but the servant of something far greater than himself…it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle.'" https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-itself-1 https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/e...