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> I believe he's across the hall from Yann LaCunn as well ;)

I'm having a hard time processing what the wink might possibly mean in this context.

No sarcasm intended.

I'd guess that wink is hinting that Yann LeCun might've had something to do with this research. Whether that's true or not, I have no idea.

(Yann LeCun is a Turing award winner for his work in deep learning)

Yann LeCun did not, otherwise he’d be a coauthor. As it is, this was a collaboration between NYU and Facebook AI Research, with multiple authors working at both institutions.

My understanding is that academic authorship credit is political: authors don’t always contribute, and contributors don’t always get credit. Is this not the case?

Not really. Usually the politics goes the other way - people getting an author slot because they are the head of the department or something.

I believe I covered that—authors who don’t contribute.

Also, I know too many angry grad students to believe that contributors always get credit.

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