[JustFinishedBSG]

1. This is more Technical Report worthy than paper worthy...

2. "by Ray Kurzweil's Team", although accurate I find that fetishization of certain stars to pretty insulting to the other authors, we already have a convention and it's "Cer et al. (2018)"

[PaulHoule]

At least Ray has the decency to be listed last on the author list!

Personally I think the idea of this paper is pretty good, but the evaluation is weak.

[wolfgke]

> At least Ray has the decency to be listed last on the author list!

Just do it like in mathematics: Authors in alphabetical order.

[josephjrobison]

Usually the actual lead author is first, the assistant authors follow, and the advisor is listed last.

At least that’s how it is in (psychology and other?) PhD programs.

So Ray may only be supervising or contributing a small portion and is likely listed on all papers his team publishes.

[l1n]

Same in Biology

[PaulHoule]

One senior physicist I worked with advocated alphabetical order whenever he would come first in it!

[lobster_johnson]

Physics, too, which causes another interesting side effect: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/to-get-ahead-in-physics-y...

[paradroid]

In psychology the senior author comes first. Here we have mixed paradigms in authorship. Putting Kurzweil last is definitely intentional.