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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 17th, 2020, 2:26 pm

Here's a screamer

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135.pdf


In November 2016 we submitted to arXiv our paper “Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images”. It generated a great deal of discussions in the Internet and some media outlets. Our work is only intended for pure academic discussions; how it has become a media consumption is a total surprise to us. Although in agreement with our critics on the need and importance of policing AI research for the general good of the society, we are deeply baffled by the ways some of them mispresented our work, in particular the motive and objective of our research.
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 26th, 2020, 10:34 am

"Taking a court conviction at its face value, i.e., as the “ground truth” for machine learning, was indeed a serious oversight on our part."
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 26th, 2020, 10:54 am

And this?

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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 26th, 2020, 8:05 pm

What is this?
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 26th, 2020, 8:22 pm

 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 27th, 2020, 1:37 am

And this?

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How to prove that one's a total idiot in one graph?
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 27th, 2020, 11:32 am

Uromycitisis Poisoning Results in Lower Urinary Tract Infection and Acute Renal Failure: Case Report 

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Uromycitisis is a rare but serious condition that affects over 2,000 mostly adult men and women in the United States each year. Described simply, it is caused by prolonged failure to evacuate the contents of the bladder and can result in a serious infection of the lower urinary tract known as “uromycitisis poisoning,” which, if untreated, can cause acute renal failure and has an associated high mortality. Because people with uromycitisis often cannot hold in their urine and feel they must—and, at times, actually must—urinate in inappropriate places, sometimes running afoul of local public sanitation ordinances, they can feel great personal shame and place themselves in legal jeopardy, through no fault of their own. We report the case of a 37-year-old male who suffers from uromycitisis, was prevented from urinating in public, was admitted to the emergency room with uromycitisis poisoning, was misdiagnosed, and was referred to our institution for treatment.
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 28th, 2020, 9:42 am

SAD!
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 28th, 2020, 9:56 am

SAD!
  • The 'author' was approached by a predator journal. So he sent the abstract and 3 days later was accepted! Wait for it, punch line he had to pay them 800 bucks in order to get it published.
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

August 30th, 2020, 8:53 pm

That's quite typical. IOP charges more.
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

January 14th, 2023, 10:55 am

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14763


(Nature News has attempted to contact the conference organizers and named authors of the paper but received no reply*; however at least some of the names belong to real people. The IEEE has now removed the paper).
 
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Re: The worst ML paper with physics application I have ever seen

January 14th, 2023, 11:28 am

Unearned authorship pervades science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00016-1