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The main authors are Demaine authors.

Perfect.

@blinry this feels like a sigbovik submission

@blinry @kieran I see they reinvented round robin

@blinry I like how this comes from a chaos.social account XD.

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I recall seeing a peasants' complaint being signed in a circle so the powers-that-were could not make an example of the top signer.

Different background, same goal, same result. A beautiful example of design convergence.

@blinry an old labor union trick, to protect the instigators

@blinry Can you embed a GIF in a PDF? You can just make the names shuffle around too if you can.

I like the superposition-vibe of this kind of thing though. 💯

@blinry just have the author list scroll endlessly with random start point...

@blinry unfortunately, mouse-hovering over the citation shows the list of authors, with the ordering...
Shamelessly citing a colleague : My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

@blinry Things you can only do with LaTeX

@blinry I think this is a good example of the solution being stupid but the question not being as stupid.

@blinry #inkscape use in the wild: foss et al.

@blinry I wonder what @drbecky_ would make of this. She tends to call out the first author with a picture _and collaborators_ in her videos. Shame this account on Mastodon is only a passive mirror.

@blinry If I change my name to "I picked this name to be visible as the first author on scientific papers screw that lot ---> Geoffrey Geoffers Geofferson"....

@blinry This unfortunately gives an advantage to those with the longest names.

@blinry @fuzzyleapfrog Ein Paper für Deine Sammlung?

@blinry Perfect if you are planning to submit to the Journal of Universal Rejection https://www.universalrejection.org/

@blinry "Circular arrangements also seem difficult to apply to small numbers of authors such as 2."

@blinry One flaw:

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Joking aside, there is another solution: write your own damn paper by yourself, and put exactly one name on it.

@blinry I love the idea of researchers signing their names as if mutineers, to prevent reprisals against the PI

@blinry Reminds me of an anecdote from one of those Game Developer Conference post-mortems: During the development the project manager had to deal with two teams, both lead by folks with rather big egos (🙄), nobody wanted to be the "second team" – so they got called "Team 1" and "Team A" 😆

@blinry While I love this very much, one problem is that I can distinguish the presence of an author I recognize (Erik Demaine) while not ones I'm less familiar with, leading to a different sort of bias. :)

I will read the paper and see if this is addressed.

@blinry there was a British paper where they decided the author order by playing cricket.

@blinry clearly the best solution would be to have the authors agree on one super-name, following practices used by fandom shippers.

@blinry@chaos.social How about listing the authors oldest to youngest? Or determine (by blockchain, of course) which authors contributed the most content to the document, and list them in descending order of contribution size?

@blinry Approved! I hope next there won't be a movement against unfairness because long names stand out from the bunch!

@blinry I like the idea of a unique glyph for each author configuration

@blinry They need to add random spaces (or any other reasonable delimiter) between letters to adreess the bias given to long names.

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April 3 submission, so I'm assuming a deadline was missed

@blinry Truly, I have gazed into the depths of the abyss.

@blinry snrk.

@blinry Now try it with the Higgs Boson discovery paper 🤣🤣🤣

@blinry Works fine, as long as machines are the only ones reading the paper or citation.

@blinry No one does this on actual paper anymore, maybe Adobe Acrobat (others will follow) needs a new openly-readable-source feature in the form of a Random Order List Box.

@blinry high energy physics papers would just look redacted

@blinry lmao

@blinry I'm not surprised to learn that latex allows this kind of cursed wizardry. Of course it does.

@blinry 🤣🤣🤣 i cannot

@blinry i'd suggest using \rlap{} to print stuff ontop of other stuff instead of moving it around with negative vertical skips.

@blinry There's still an advantage for people with longer than average names, because more of their names remains legible.

@blinry Extension du Demaine de la lutte... #ironème

@blinry This is great work, though I am concerned that the inevitable emergence of z-index prestige wasn’t covered in the discussion/limitations

@blinry sometimes I doodle a word by writing each letter on top of itself.

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I'd like to propose the paper "Every Author as First Author"
to the Ig Nobel Prize committee.
The acceptance speech ought to be mind blowing.

@blinry it might have been better if it was dated two days earlier.

@blinry @jomo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_(document)

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🤣

Figure 3 ar round-robins, in the non-sports sense, and apparently an old idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_(document)
#RoundRobin #language #vocabulary

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"Our approach makes it easy to give the full author list SMUDGE giving credit to all authors, but without allocating that paper a disproportionate amount of space in the bibliography."

I love every sentence of this article.

@blinry Just print the paper in holographic film so a different name appears depending on what angle you look at it. Or maybe merge the top and bottom halves of letters together, or combine them like sigils 🤔

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"A final issue is that overlapping name stacks are not easy to read."
Chef's kiss, 11/10, no notes.

@blinry So, all authors' names would be unreadable - sounds good, actually.

In traditional Asian culture, there was no custom of specifying the author of a given work.