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This twitter thread contains a stunning display of academic misbehavior. I will summarize the findings here.
Basically two authors Pawan Setlur and Muralidhar Rangaswamy write a criticism of a 2013 paper by Augosto Aubry, Antonio DeMaio, and Alfanso Farina. Their paper can be found on dtic:
dtic.mil
It was briefly on the arxiv but removed due to unprofessional personal attack:
It is not uncommon in the academic world to write tactfully stated comments on papers. However, these two guys go balls to the wall and shit all over the 2013 paper. Notably, they cite the "Kruger-Dunning effect" and basically call these guys incompetent. Here are some lines from the paper:
"Incompetence must be treated as an affliction. With this being said, our intention here is not to criticize the peer researchers in [2], but rather shine the torch on their 'affliction'."
"...readily apparent to any optimization novice"
"Unlike the authors of [2], we see no point in reinventing the wheel!"
"These arguments we make are self-evident to any optimization amateur, but unfortunately not to the authors of [2]."
"It would be useful for the authors of [2] to read them diligently before resorting to cherry picking facts and making flawed claims."
"T. Rochafeller, or W. Fenchel or R. Bellman would be fuming at this rookie error!"
"We aren't sure if the authors of [2] proved the monotone convergence theorem for the first time. If indeed this is true, we are terribly apologetic!"
"How can anyone justify these ridiculous claims?"
"It does not take a genius to figure this!"
"... there is no incentive for the community to use, or cite, or read [1] or [2]."
Have you ever seen anything like this???
