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As your comment is 3rd from the top of page: You could investigate that with a few minutes of googling - the 'student' has been writing CS papers since the mi
by feral 13y ago
As your comment is 3rd from the top of page:
You could investigate that with a few minutes of googling -
the 'student' has been writing CS papers since the mid '80s [0]
This reminds me of when someone on HN described both the authors as 'some Israeli CS students' [1]
Whatever you think about this particular paper, the authors are experienced researchers.
[0] http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dron/ http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dron/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5209356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5209356
- Crito 13y agoSo what we are saying here is that in the "did a bit of preliminary googling before writing something foolish" department, they did about as well as a HN commenter. Seriously, the slight difference here makes your comparison less than flattering. This seems like some form of "damning with faint praise".
- wmf 13y agoI stand corrected and I apologize to Dr. Ron. I am still not sure how much Shamir is responsible for the flaws in this research given that he's not the first author.
- lkozma 13y agoI'm not sure about this particular paper, but in most theoretical fields the authors are listed alphabetically by last name (the assumption being that each of them made a contribution without which the paper wouldn't exist - so ranking them is not important).
- Aqueous 13y agoAnd as Adi Shamir could have found out with a little more Googling, the address belonged to Trammell, not Satoshi. It takes a bad Googler to know a bad Googler. I guess we're all just bad Googlers. We should really brush up on our Googling.