How do we know that journals don't have the same problem? For "predatory" journals for sure this is a problem.
@milesfinn
Patent litigator, physicist (quantum optics+nuclear), Minnesotan, ex- NYCr, ex-Kiwi, wrote https://patvault.com, which speeds up the tedious parts of patent analysis, including automating file history analysis. My skill: infringement and validity analysis.
How do we know that journals don't have the same problem? For "predatory" journals for sure this is a problem.
PatVault.com-- my software project -- it delivers patent documents to litigators, patent attorneys, inventors, and investors.
It supplies are patents (.pdf), patents (.docx), and file histories (.pdf w/ Table of Contents in .docx), and claim charts.
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@cchineman.bsky.socialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=290oRyPFlds
Nils Lofgren -- No Kings No Hate No Fear
youtu.be/yPPfV4PO_lk
seth.abramson - he's a lawyer. "Minnesota -- the north star of America"
Billy Bragg --"City of Heroes"
braggb.substack.com/p/city-of-he... -- it's about Minneapolis. Make it true for your city.
Does anyone find it ironic that the analysis of chats reported in Microsoft's paper "Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI" (arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935) was performed using OpenAI's 4o model?
Commerce Department officials are discussing charging patent holders 1% to 5% of their overall patent value, a shift that could dramatically increase fees, according to people familiar with the matter. The idea is being considered by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick . . .
Congestion pricing made us stay in NYC www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/19/c... So true.
Saving money every day.
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And he was a good one, too.
Try Functional Data Analysis. FDA. In Python: pip install scikit-fda
I had a lot of respect for Cuomo. Later, I had much less. Tonight, he's rising in my esteem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
Paul Simon was on to confirmation bias decades before it was fashionable.
And this!
The screenwriter, James Schamus, has been prescient in his criticisms of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's actions. His latest is definitely worth a read. lithub.com/a-columbia-p...
for what it's worth, ะบะพัััะผ ("costume") means "suit" in Ukrainian.
Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. ๐คฎ
#SlavaUkraine ๐บ๐ฆ
"History will remember this dayโ when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
Our leadership is an embarrassment. They just verbally assaulted President Zelensky in the oval on national tv. Jesus.
It's also consistent with the Poisson interval distribution, where for randomly spaced events, the most likely interval is zero. Two dramatic events happening at a short interval are more memorable than spaced-out events.
the cover of the book "Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps" by Eric L. Muller.
This is a perilous moment for lawyers in federal service.
Stories of resistance from within can help.
This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII.
We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience.
Would you please share?
tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2
We, the people, are the goddamn rule book. We always have been. And if we stick to it, instead of giving up, we will prevail.