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The researchers in this paper use an astonishingly biased "fake paper detector", requiring only two conditions to be met for any paper to be considered "fake":

1. Use a non-institutional email address, or have a hospital affiliation, 2. Have no international co-authors.

And they acknowledge 86% sensitivity and 44% specificity. It's a coin-toss which biases massively against research from outside the US and Western Europe.

This "paper" is bigoted nonsense.

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110357278154604907

On the other end, I integrated TOTP into the auth workflow for a full stack FastAPI base project generator (https://github.com/whythawk/full-stack-fastapi-postgresql).

TOTP is great, but developers need to start adding it to their apps by default.

Byju’s rode a wave of investor enthusiasm to a $22bn valuation. But questions over its rapid expansion have clouded its future.

I haven't implemented search inside the work. Only for searching the library (it's ultimately meant to be a self-publishing app, but that's a work in progress). It uses https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js/ Eventually, I'll get all its API working, but there's not much of a how-to guide, so it's slow.

I developed https://qwyre.com as a PWA offline app-based epub reader. You're welcome to give it a go. It even imports links to epubs direct and stores them in your browser. There is no central online storage, no tracking, and here's the privacy statement https://qwyre.com/privacy-rights

UK Prime Minister announced new COVID England-wide lockdown https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/covid-lockdown...

Julian Baggini and Peter Fosl, The Ethics Toolkit, 2007.

I've been teaching data curation for open data managers in governments around the world for the last decade. All the issues identified in this BBC article are covered in my syllabus.

If anyone's interested, here's the openly-licenced syllabus, in English and French: https://github.com/whythawk/data-wrangling-and-validation

Both metadata in the uploaded book, and seeing the transaction reversed a few weeks later.

Publishers announce the books they'll be releasing a year in advance,and - seriously, this is a rabbit hole I knew nothing about when I started - people were offering bounties to pirate my book before it was available. I have a Google alert for my books so I can read reviews, so all this chatter was turning up. These are people who had no intention of paying for the work, no matter what, but also seemed to be going out of their way to make sure no-one would have to pay.

You can talk about DRM and clunky websites, but that comes across as post-hoc justification. The pirates seem simply to hate the idea that creators might earn anything, no matter how little.

The economics of mid-list writing don't really make this feasible ... very few writers get to do more than buy coffee off their work. Creating a whole dummy book just to mess with pirates isn't worth it. Not when I'm going to spend a year writing a new novel in the first place. Then, once that's done, I've somehow got to get back into industry so I can earn a living and recover the money lost while writing ... this isn't something you do because you expect to earn anything from it. Making a few dozen extra sales from pirates?

Sure :) The biggest barrier is micro-payments. If I could charge as a streaming service, but without having to go through a major platform (I don't want Spotify-for-books), then that would be perfect. I actually pitched this to GrantForTheWeb using their Web Monetization toolkit.

I'm a mid-list author formally published by one of the world's largest publishing houses. Deliberately seeding pirate sites with my novel would place me in breach of contract. It's an interesting idea if I were entirely self-published, but not realistic for me.

I've written two novels, formally published in the UK, self-published in the US. Books available on Amazon, and DRM-free on my website https://gavinchait.com.

Both novels were stolen and uploaded to ZLib within the first week of release: https://b-ok.cc/s/gavin%20chait

Here's how I - as author - experienced it:

- Within the first week someone buys the book via Amazon using a stolen credit card;

- Book is uploaded to ZLib;

- I complained to Amazon, raising both the issue of the stolen work and the stolen credit card;

- No response from Amazon, although they were quick to reverse the charge (I'm assuming as soon as the card is reported stolen);

- I complained to ZLib using their DMCA reporting tool;

- ZLib care about as much as Amazon, and my novels are still up.

I made it as easy as possible to read my work on my website and pay me direct. I released it as a DRM-free epub for use on any device or platform. You can even buy anonymously. Still doesn't matter. Folks like the OP won't support writers.

And, while this won't stop me writing, it makes it impossible to afford to write as often as I'd like. Two years after my second, I'm still trying to save up enough to afford to write my third.

Thanks OP.

Why advertise before you've got FDA approval?

OP here. If anyone wants to see a more detailed user guide to our system, this is it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OY_IoV81zmdNLXJteLIn4MeU...

Yep. If I were a WeWork tenant and would ordinarily qualify for the Small Business Rates Relief, I'd be asking them about that...

They also have to check what's happening in other authorities. From experience, there is no standardisation of anything, not of definitions, data structure, methods of data management. Government data systems are archaic, so doing those cross-authority tests to see whether business qualify for reliefs is real slow.

I'd love to see a standard schema for rates data, but that's unlikely.

Would be nice ;) although government IT modernisation programs don't always go so well...

I've been assembling commercial ratepayer data across the UK quarterly for the last three years. While WeWork is certainly not alone, what is remarkable is the explosion in micro-hereditaments over the past year. We're talking median office sizes at 4-6m2,where some of the more established services are significantly larger. And the approach of fragmenting offices into ever-tinier spaces is accelerating.

It's not heavily discounted. But the offices are very, very small.

I provided some of the data used in this article (via FOI-request, used at sqwyre.com).

The scale of the number of the hereditaments (taxable units) is remarkable and overloads local tax authorities. We're talking thousands, with regular tenant changes. Even in central London, there are only a handful of municipal staff to deal with all businesses.

What you end up with is equivalent to a denial-of-service attack against rates authority staff. They're overwhelmed.

That's the real risk to communities. If tax relief claims are industrialised, it puts endless pressure on the services those taxes were supposed to pay for. These are local taxes, so that's libraries, community centres, road maintenance, etc.

WeWork may not be a tech company when it comes to what they're selling, but it is when it comes to how they deal with tax.

I was developing a "data as a science" Master's-level degree syllabus, but the funding dried up. This was an early internal briefing I prepared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRL3OabbsY&list=PLOtSL0-B2R...

So, yes, I'm in agreement.

A data scientist is a researcher who answers a research question using data, and can lead the development of the research process. They may design the methods to acquire primary or secondary sources of data that inform the research process, monitor and ensure ethical responsibilities, curate the research data and results, or communicate the process and results to stakeholders. Coding is incidental to that process, and it is possible to be a data scientist without programming at all.

The openness to the truth of a research answer is what is often lacking in much of tech-driven data science. Mostly, it sounds more like a statistician who codes, than a researcher who focuses on data-as-source.

Anyhow, the first module is complete, and I still have the rest of the 20-module course outline - which was aimed at public health professionals - and was thinking of crowd-funding each module, if anyone is interested? It's based on the Sloyd model of teaching, so each module is discrete, building on the previous module, and provides a functional and holistic understanding of the scientific method as it applies to data.

I'm curious about your opposition to paywalls. With journalists losing their jobs, and quality newspapers closing, what would your ideal means of both reading these stories, and funding the production of them, look like?

I've filed over 1,600 FOI requests for commercial ratepayer data in the UK over the last 4 years, and I've seen some truly pathetic reasons for rejection of my requests. The worst are the ones claiming that such data would cause terrorism.

Usually, mentally ill people are outpatients of medical facilities. However, if they're not a danger to themselves or society, it's difficult to make a case that they should be imprisoned against their will (which is what it would amount to if one institutionalised a person indefinitely).

I'm not saying I know what the answer should be, and this sits on legally and ethically tricky ground all over the world. The mentally ill have been treated pretty badly through history, and I'm not sure that benign neglect is the worst of these options but I do think there should be some formal system of checking on them (informally, there are any number of NGOs and religious groups who tend to keep tabs on the homeless, funding permitting).

There's an idea by the writer, almost lost in the article, that I thought is brilliant:

"When he was in hospital without any documents or ID I came up with the idea of medical bracelets for homeless people. I bought about 100 waterproof USB wristbands which can hold important information and I've given away about 60 so far."

There are any number of people made homeless through mental illness. They are often lost in the system when they become critically ill, and such an identifier would help medical professionals to reunite these people with their families.

My grandmother was an actress in the 1940s and we still have hers from then. They're genuinely hideous and terrifying-looking.

The long-term effect on her was that her tear-ducts stopped working. Many things back then, as now, that public figures had to do to remain employable had these horrible health effects.

Still, we get a cool souvenir and I'm genuinely pleased to see this clip of the things being made.

"Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours."

Well, of course not ;) It is: the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, the once-a-decade formal apology by the Japanese PM for their actions during the war (a massively contentious issue where his every word is analysed by Japan's neighbours, and which wasn't felt to be sufficiently contrite this time), as well as falling within the usual politics of the region.

I have the print edition, and it's called "The unquiet past". I think the other 'title' may be for SEO purposes.