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by btrettel 2y ago
I only skimmed everything before "From Theory to Practice: A Framework for Research as Leisure" and read everything after that, but it doesn't seem this covers actual obstacles to doing research on the side that I face. I do
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by btrettel 2y ago
There's been discussion on HN of "smuggling" the lost information back into the organization: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42235452
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by btrettel 2y ago
Most people on HN work in software, but I work in the intersection of software and hardware. The software for me is simulation software, but it could alternatively be real-time software for a product. The relevant difference between softwar
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by btrettel 2y ago
Thanks, I was worried that I missed something!
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by btrettel 2y ago
I'm far more worried about open access archives under the US federal government's direct control. https://discover.dtic.mil/ https://www.osti.gov/ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/ https:&#
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by btrettel 2y ago
I periodically go to the Library of Congress to read things for various side projects. It's sad how few people actually use the Library of Congress as a library. There are a lot of tourists there. I usually go to the Science and Busine
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by btrettel 2y ago
I'm a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) engineer. Like others have said, I'm pretty confident basic CFD algorithms are in the training data of many LLMs. I would say a bigger problem is the accuracy of the generated simulator. A
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by btrettel 2y ago
Some folks' elementary or middle schools had stock picking lessons with fake money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642395 From mine, all I remember was getting the impression that putting money in particular st
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by btrettel 2y ago
Looks like the webpage is on GitHub too: https://github.com/pyherald/pyherald/blob/main/docs/articles...
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by btrettel 2y ago
I was confused by the same thing. I guess that the patents are only related , and don't actually contain the trade secrets.
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by btrettel 2y ago
In "traditional" engineering, there are a lot of old code bases still in use that few people (if any) have a solid understanding of. I've seen code comments dating to the 70s. Often the code was "documented" in inte
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by btrettel 2y ago
I could have sworn that I read this before, on a different website. Turns out that I was right according to my notes. https://web.archive.org/web/20111228105122/http://wrttn.in/0... Previous discuss
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by btrettel 2y ago
In other replies, I've made it clear that if people really do want to spend their time searching for prior art, fine, go ahead. I've also been clear that I won't be doing that because I found patent searching to be a real gri
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by btrettel 2y ago
Sorry to hear about your experience. To reply to you and some others: I'm not saying that patent trolling is not a problem. My point is that it's not as big a problem as commonly believed (in terms of total monetary losses over th
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by btrettel 2y ago
Thanks. I upvoted your comment because it's a valid point that I had not considered that was stated without aggression. Many of the other comments here strike me as particularly aggressive or making false assumptions about what I belie
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by btrettel 2y ago
Your comments throughout this thread strike me as particularly off base. Both I and Gene Quinn agree that patent trolls are bad, but think that the problem has been exaggerated in the media. That doesn't make me a shill. I'm happy
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by btrettel 2y ago
You're right. I do think arguing with people on the internet was a bad way to spend my day off.
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by btrettel 2y ago
I stand corrected.
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by btrettel 2y ago
I'm a mechanical engineer. I mostly run and write fluid simulation code for a living. Much better paid and much lower stress than patent examining.
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by btrettel 2y ago
Good luck. And for what it's worth, I'm not an attorney, and I haven't worked in patents since leaving the USPTO.
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by btrettel 2y ago
I think you're extrapolating a lot from my comment that wasn't intended. You should try searching for prior art some time to get an idea about why I'm not happy about the payment being low. Patent examining's a real grin
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by btrettel 2y ago
I do think that you all should have paid more. But I'm fine with the bounty program, as long as it's fairly compensated. I don't like the compensation of you all's program, but from the discussion I've had here, it&
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by btrettel 2y ago
Sure: My willingness to work more hours decreases as the number of hours I work increases. My marginal hourly rate could be viewed as the amount of money I require to work an additional hour. My employer pays an effective hourly rate. If I
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by btrettel 2y ago
I'm skeptical this made that big a difference in terms of total cost. The biggest cost (maybe overwhelming majority) is probably the attorneys, which I'm confident Cloudflare didn't skimp on. Anyone from Cloudflare with hard
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by btrettel 2y ago
You are mistaken. I'm a former patent examiner as pointed out in the third word of my first comment here. So I have no conflict of interest. And I think I have a solid understanding of how much people hate patent trolls and software
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by btrettel 2y ago
Okay, I think appreciate your perspective and that of some others here more. If you all think it's a good use of your time, go ahead. Personally, I have more pressing concerns. And for what it's worth, (and I know this won't
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by btrettel 2y ago
For what it's worth, and I know this won't be popular here, the entire patent troll narrative is overblown. Patent trolls are not as big a problem as big tech companies want you to believe. See what people working in patent law ac
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by btrettel 2y ago
> Microsoft was granted this means they now have a weapon with which they can cause fear, uncertainty and doubt around ANS This is due more to people not understanding what the patent covers. The right response in my view is to educate p
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I think I haven't been clear on a few things. I think the quality of examination and search is excellent given how little time examiners have. But mistakes still happen too frequently, and the mistakes can be highly costly. Better to s
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The alternative is that Cloudflare pays a patent search firm to get the same result, albeit at a higher cost to Cloudflare. That would benefit everyone else too as the prior art would be on legal record. Why can't Cloudflare do a &quot

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