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Author listing: Katy Blumer, Kate Donahue, Katie Fritz, Kate Ivanovich, Katherine Lee, Katie Luo, Cathy Meng, Katie Van Koevering For people unfamiliar with co
by matthewmcg 2y ago
Author listing: Katy Blumer, Kate Donahue, Katie Fritz, Kate Ivanovich, Katherine Lee, Katie Luo, Cathy Meng, Katie Van Koevering
For people unfamiliar with common English names, all of the authors have first names similar to or derived from Katherine.
- ukuina 2y agoI think that is the meta-joke.
- evanb 2y agoSee also: A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Authors, by Goodman, Goodman, Goodman, and Goodman https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/joshuagoodman/files/goodmans.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/joshuagoodman/files/goodma... (Para)bosons, (para)fermions, quons and other beasts in the menagerie of particle statistics, by O.W. Greenberg, D.M Greenberger, T.V. Greenbergest https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9306225 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9306225 [Wally Greenberg told me that T.V. stands for 'the very'] Also note that TFA is a 1 April posting.
- bonzini 2y agoIt's SIGBOVIK, so that's the kind of content you'd expect independent of the date.
- ale42 2y agoActual research paper about the influence of a name on career and other "major life decisions": • Why Susie sells seashells by the seashore: implicit egotism and major life decisions (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11999918/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11999918/) With follow-ups: • I sell seashells by the seashore and my name is Jack: comment on Pelham, Mirenberg, and Jones (2002) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14599244/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14599244/) • Assessing the validity of implicit egotism: a reply to Gallucci (2003) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14599245/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14599245/)
- gattr 2y agoOn a related note: C. Limb, R. Limb, C. Limb, D. Limb "Nominative determinism in hospital medicine: Can our surnames influence our choice of career, and even specialty?" https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/147363515X14134529299420 https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/147363515X14...
- xhkkffbf 2y agoI personally know a "Doctor Coffin" (coughing & coffin) as well as a Doctor Payne.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoThis reminds me that I went to nautical school with someone whose last name was Schiff (German for ship) and he said that was exactly the reason he chose to go to sea. Also remember someone a year ahead of us whose name was Dory (a small rowboat).
- dbcurtis 2y agoIn the small rural county where I grew up, the 1/2-time job of county prosecuting attorney was named Lynch. I am not making this up.
- slyall 2y agoA few years ago there was KatieConf. Intended to highlight the lack of Women speakers at tech conferences https://2019.katieconf.xyz/ https://2019.katieconf.xyz/
- drewry 2y agoHah this reminds me of a site I built for April 1, 2019 http://www.mynamecon.com http://www.mynamecon.com
- mbg721 2y agoI saw an ad once for a convention of Bobs, with a keynote speech from Bob Newhart and the Jamaican bobsled team as special guests.
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- stordoff 2y agoI'm reminded of the 'Tom Formal' that took place whilst I was at university: > Last night, February 3rd 2011, saw 100 students and fellows all sharing the name of Tom, gather together in a record-breaking charity event in Sidney Sussex dining hall. [...] For £20, Cambridge students with the name "Tom, Thomas, Tommy (or another legitimate variation)" were able to attend a black-tie, three-course formal dinner https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/3192 https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/3192
- dabiged 2y agoThe best bit: They recursively reference the paper to provide proof that too many parents choose the same common names: > For instance, a parent might anticipate the name “Kate” would be a pleasantly traditional yet unique name with only moderate popularity. They would be wrong [6]. Reference 6 is the paper.
- martypitt 2y agoAlso good... > Simon Shindler contributed significantly to the aesthetic of Figure 7, but could not be named an author for obvious reasons.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> Simon Shindler contributed significantly to the aesthetic of Figure 7, but could not be named an author for obvious reasons. What are these "obvious reasons"?
- jsjohnst 2y agoTheir first name isn’t derived from Katherine. ;)
- byteknight 2y agoKay is derived from Kate. Kate is Derived from Kathy or Katherine.
- jvanderbot 2y agoNicknames satisfy the transitive property.
- bmacho 2y agoNicknames are the objects, isDerivedFrom is the transitive relation on them.
- adolph 2y agoIs it paradoxical that family names (used by a group of people) are more differentiated than personal names (used by one person)?
- Khoth 2y agoWhether family names are more differentiated depends on where you live. The USA has a wide variety, but there are also places like Vietnam where only a handful of family names are in common use and more than 30% of people are Nguyens.
- burnished 2y agoI think that makes sense both from an organizational and cultural perspective. Context usually supplies whatever information is needed for personal names so less disambiguation is required, and they are used much more so some simplicity is useful/natural consequence of human nature. Family names are used less frequently and with less context and frankly is how people distinguish their group from others. So yeah, think it checks out.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoI'd assume that this is more likely true in countries mostly populated by recent immigrants.
- Modified3019 2y agoI began wondering if “Katerina” (often shortened to “Kat”) was related, the etymology I found here https://www.behindthename.com/name/katherine https://www.behindthename.com/name/katherine is interesting.
- mikepurvis 2y agoI expect for a lot of parents naming a baby, the actual etymology is less important than whether the name sounds related/derived.
- AceyMan 2y agoThis is the catch: you're not naming a baby: you're naming a person; they just so happen to be a baby at the beginning when you're enjoying an early appreciation for the mel lif lu ous ness of the name ... but they're going to be an adult the vast majority of their life. Ergo, that ought to be the usage parents plan for, rather than some cute, endearing name "fitting" for an infant (for some definition of fitting).
- mikepurvis 2y agoIn most cases where babies get a "cutesy" name, hopefully the parents have the self-awareness to give them the corresponding adult version as their legal name, or at least a reasonable alternative as a middle name— both give the person easier options if they want to change it up during life transitions like entering high school or going away to university. For example, Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter is Apple Blythe Alison Martin, and she's stuck with it, being Apple Martin professionally— but it's good she had the off-ramp to be the much more conventional Blythe or Alison if she'd wanted it.
- AceyMan 2y agoI'm talking about 'in vogue' names like Kayley and Riley and Jaden. Do you see the CEO of Big Corp or Fields Medal winner being a _______? (btw, my son attended the same preschool as Paltrow's kids: just a coincidence worth mentioning.)
- srndsnd 2y agoThe title of the paper is also a reference to the famous YA novel "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green.
- xyst 2y agoGlad to know I am not the only person to notice this :) I wonder how all of these people met and decided to collaborate on this paper.
- gerdesj 2y ago"we create a model which is not only tractable and clean, but also perfectly captures the real world. We then extend our investigation with numerical experiments, as well as analysis of large language model tools." ie ... this is bollocks.