We consider a game theoretic model to study allocation of credit to authors; in particular, we find that alphabetical ordering can lead to higher research quality, while ordering by contribution results in a denser collaboration network and more publications.
A Theory of Name(order)s.
Top Hat.
Imagine you are one of ten prisoners locked up for extensive use of logic. To make you even more miserable, the guard comes up with a puzzle.
Free as in Freedom.
Exactly one year ago I switched from Ubuntu to Debian and never looked back.
I am not watching you.
In eigener Sache: Dieses Blog erstellt keine Besuchsstatistiken. Es ist ja auch viel schöner IRL zu erfahren wer hier mitliest.
Intersecinema.
'The real problem, is that Baise-Moi is a film about violent "lower class" women, made by supposedly marginal women. The mainstream doesn't want to hear about people with nothing, the disenfranchised, the marginals, taking up arms and killing people for fun and money. It happens, of course, but we're not allowed to acknowledge it.
A lot of people really don't want to see two North African women who have been raped taking up arms and shooting European men. That's a little too close to historical reality.
There's a great pleasure in pissing people off. At least it makes them talk about things.
Virginie Despentes talking about the reactions to Baise-Moi in the Guardian (April 2002)