Connectionists: Scientific Integrity, the 2021 Turing Lecture, etc.

[Juyang Weng]

Randall O'Reilly wrote: "how little Einstein added to what was already
established by Lorentz and others".   I respectfully object to this
misleading statement.

Much has been added to "Lorentz and others" by general relativity based on
which Albert Einstein became well known.

In terms of special relativity, the Lorentz transformation is very
different from special relativity.  I quote from wikipedia: "Some months
later, FitzGerald published the conjecture that bodies in motion are being
contracted, in order to explain the baffling outcome of the 1887
aether-wind experiment of Michelson and Morley. In 1892, Lorentz
independently presented the same idea in a more detailed manner, which was
subsequently called FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction hypothesis.[6]. Their
explanation was widely known before 1905."

What happened to the Turing Award 2018 is very unusual, indicating
something obviously wrong at ACM that year.  For example, please check the
ACM Turing Award Committee that year.  Anybody has published in neural
networks?  This is like many non-experts judged on a subject area that they
were not familiar with, hyped by the media.  This media hype is now
challenged for protocol flaws.  See
A Report to *Nature* about Technical Flaws of Post-Selections Using Test
Sets (PSUTS)
<http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/research/2021-06-28-Report-to-Nature-specific-PSUTS.pdf>,
June 28, 2021. Currently, Nature is investigating this series of charges.

See what is going on on PubPeer to the hype that resulted in Turing Aware
2018:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/46ACDD49DFA0EC6C961CC22E331924#.
Hinton stopped responding when things became tough.

Also see challenges to Google's typical work on AI:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/C1F67E615087A54B7F2F2A9FCCE33F#

It seems to be rooted from a lack of due diligence and lack of account on
part of ACM.   This kind of accidents are unlikely in the Nobel Committee.
Nobel Committee members have been careful as they must explain each Nobel
Award.

-John
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Juyang (John) Weng
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