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You are assuming that the top 1% got there based on merit and not money laundering -- a major feature of the business these days.

They've also scraped HackerNews posts. Since I posted blog links to HackerNews, does that mean they stole all of my blog posts? That represents three years of work and the chapters of 3 books that I intend to publish. They just took it and will start delivering it to their users to help them write more interesting content? Not okay.

This still seems to be happening two years later. A person complained about seeing a book sold under their name for 550 USD. It contained gibberish and the sales were recorded as income to the IRS even though the owner of the account couldn't find out where the money went. Amazon wouldn't tell her who had opened a bank account in her name. I suppose they prefer to deal with such accounts behind the scenes.

thanks!

my problem is that I don't know what sort of organization has targeted me. https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/authorial-qui...

thanks, but Germans aren't allowed to use it.

You can use major plot details from other books, the issue is how many and how sequentially arranged they can be. This author is dealing with several people who sat down and sequntially copied 35-45 plot twists/details on a page by page basis.

If you take 45 sequential, critical, unique lines of code or equations from a patented, copyrighted project, you could be in a lot of trouble. I think it is okay to take less than 14 sequential, unique plot elements but I'm not sure about how this would apply to lines of code made up of proprietary equations.

Those sorts of attacks work on an author who has only been ripped off by one publisher, but when there are six or seven, the attacker ends up looking like the nut job. Just wait until next year. Somebody delivered this as a poison pill to the whole industry. When the same new story shows up in seven locations within two years, bad actors are easier to identify.

I've noticed that the AI generated texts in novels tend to lack narrative cohesion over more than a few paragraphs and that the people who use them often have a human write the beginning and the ending of the book and then the middle is just AI hash that looks perfectly okay if you only read a few pages, but if you actually read the whole book, you realize that the central portion is completely fragmented. If an AI read such a text and concluded that it was great based on stylistic elements and if an agent didn't actually read the book all of the way through, that tool could completely sink the publishing industry because the platforms woudl be saturated by books that are 90% unreadable by humans. You would end up engineering an illiterate population! Kids would pick up those books and not be able to follow the plot in the middle (because there isn't one) and then they would conclude that they don't like to read.

Or they just burst into flames. It is like burning up on re-entry. You are thinking of acceleration in the same way you were taught to think about velocity, but that doesn't work in this case.

It implied that the temporal effect of the final deceleration was analogous to how when you throw a ball up in the air and catch it, it only momentarily feels heavier than before you threw it. The twin only momentarily looks younger because the clock has to speed back up during the final deceleration and a naive calculation neglects this step.

The physics community is suffering from a skepticism deficit enforced by physics cops (referees) who promote groupthinkers. Minorities are naturally more skeptical due to their history of betrayal by the majority and they are needed to help re-ground a community that has lost its head in the clouds.

Not really, but now that you mention it, I like how 'portrait' sounds like 'poor trait'. The conscious self might not see such a thing, but I bet that the unconscious mind see it.

The comments and discussion with the author of https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/ are worth looking at. He studies astronomy as more than a hobby.

a defector explained subversion very clearly back in the 1980s "after it is done, no one is sure what is true and there is nothing you can do to roll it back. The only defense you have against it comes from older institutions like religion." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmg2VFX058

Does anyone here know of any algorithms that can establish the genealogy of a text? I know about plagiarism detectors, but they can only find verbatim plagiarism. Are there any tools that can quantify structural plagiarism. In this article, I suggested some ways to do that, but I don't know if these methods are already in existence.

They could get rid of bots with Captchas, but they don't. That suggests to me that the people funding Twitter want to be able to use bots.

Personally, I watched a guy who was promoting his crappy, plagiarized book go from 25k followers to 90k followers over the course of a week. They were all clearly fake since he rarely got more than a single like on everything he Tweeted.

The idea that half of Twitter's accounts are bots is not new: https://gizmodo.com/how-many-social-media-users-are-real-peo... (written in 2018) Another older article puts the issue into a larger social context and makes some sloppy estimates: "Since Twitter’s yearly revenue is between 2 and 3 billion dollars — that is as much as 50 dollars per potential customer on average and that doesn’t count what people are spending to purchase fake followers and bots. If only English speaking customers are targeted by Twitter ads, that means 150 dollars is being spent to grab the attention of each customer." https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/the-fake-econ...

This post on of Proteins, People, and Particles contains the text of an invited talk given at the data science company: https://idalab.de/blog The original slides are in this post: https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/idalabs-semin...

Holy hell. This epidemic is going to teach everyone a thing or two about anesthesia. Part of you does remember what happened to your body while you were under. I had two operations as a teen and feel like they changed me forever.

If you are in pain, some part of your mind does not like what you are writing or doing. Instead of suppressing it, you might try to ask it why it is not happy with what you are doing. Pain comes from inner conflict. Maybe that unconscious part of your mind sees something that you can't consciously see. Maybe it sees something that it doesn't like.

My Adorable Apotheosis: Don't Look Back, Pussycat. Kill! Kill! by Kirsten Hacker.

In keeping with the preposterous title, it uses sci-fi tropes to illuminate the ways in which the modern scientific community is heading in a preposterous direction.

It is sort of like the Princess Bride of sci-fi.

Do you know how the wordpress.com system works? The person writing the blog doesn't choose the ads. You are getting ads from quackery products because adsense has profiled you as a person who might be interested in such products.

If the death rate turns out to be 0.5% as claimed by the virologists on the German nightly news, I'll stand corrected. They say that the dark number of unreported cases is a factor of ten of what is reported, but if it is a factor of ten in Germany and South Korea, then it has to be a factor of 100 in places like the US, UK, Spain, and Italy. I like clear data presentation and many people mistake complex data presentation for quality. Just compare the CDC site and the worldometer site. Anybody can do simple calculations to interpret worldometer data, but the CDC site presentation is harder to parse. I think this is a deliberate form of gatekeeping. Incidentally, from where I am in Germany, I can only view the first page of the Nature article you linked. As with all articles of its sort, the devil is in the details.

If all of the other doctors are busy...

He installed two versions of Linux on a brand new Windows machine but couldn't get the first version to work. He then found a sort of ghost Linux operating system that he hadn't installed and didn't know about. Was the ghost an invisible/spy/parasite/passenger operating system that got installed twice at the same location, messing up the operation of the visible/user/host/carrier operating system?

Hilbert space being used to remove the effect of a shaking reference frame from a calculation is a conspiracy theory? Tell that to the people who use Hilbert space to remove the impact of a non-inertial reference frame from quad-copter drone control calculations. The quality of physics education varies widely and it may disappoint some people to learn that their teachers weren't that good.

I think the argument rests on this logic: -Neutrinos make muons and gamma rays could potentially make muons, but they usually make pair production. -How can you distinguish neutrinos from muons? -You can't.

She goes into the experimental discrepancy between quantum and classical probability and then explains it in terms of a systematic error caused by a shaking reference frame. Taking only part of the argument out of context is misleading.