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Did anyone else notice the absolutely insane author lists of references 1 and 3? I was expecting to find this 2016 article in there: https://news.ycombinator.c
by userbinator 2y ago
Did anyone else notice the absolutely insane author lists of references 1 and 3?
I was expecting to find this 2016 article in there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12469270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12469270
This 2019 one does show up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712811
Of course, this "out of spec" behaviour of DRAM, more specifically the ability to do copying, is also implicated in this infamous bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5314959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5314959
It seems more than one person independently observed such a thing, and thought "this might be a useful behaviour".
- s-macke 2y agoThis seems to be a formatting error. For such a huge author list, you usually write only the first name and then "et al." for "others".
- tomsmeding 2y agoThe 'et al.' is used for in-article citations, if done in author-year format; references in the reference list are, to the extent that I've seen, always written out in full. I guess Google just wanted to make the life of any academic citing their work miserable. There are (unfortunately) conferences that have page limits that include the reference list; I wonder if an exception would be made here.
- esafak 2y agoThey want authors to think twice before citing someone. A curious incentive!
- throwaway519 2y agoOne day, I'm going to credit my entire department, deli and everyone in the park at 2pm as contributors too.