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SPJSimon Peyton Jones

Chaotic Theorist. 26% colons, a repeat co-author on 77% of papers, 35% at ICFP, has never met an ICSE.

Why Theorist

87% of papers at theory venues

87th percentile · theory 87%, systems 13%, SE 0%

Repeat co-author

77%

30th percentile · more is lawful

Colon titles

26%

45th percentile · more is chaotic

Top-venue share

35% ICFP

29th percentile · more is lawful

Lawfulness

21st percentile

top third Lawful, bottom Chaotic

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All the numbers

Column: whichever of theory, systems or SE venue share (of your 23 papers) has your highest percentile. Row: lawfulness = mean of pct(repeat co-author), 1 − pct(colon titles), pct(top-venue share), then ranked again: top third Lawful, bottom third Chaotic. Percentiles among the 4,969 authors with 5+ papers in PLDB. Repeat co-author: share of your co-authored papers with someone who is on another of your papers too.

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