Stefan Savage
@docsavage.bsky.social
Google scholar is an illusion, kinda like magenta. It only exists in your mind.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Google scholar is an illusion, kinda like magenta. It only exists in your mind.
I think the other difference is the tremendous amount of manual work to figure out what the traffic was, who it belonged to and who to disclose to... which has been non-stop detective work for them over the last year.
October 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think the other difference is the tremendous amount of manual work to figure out what the traffic was, who it belonged to and who to disclose to... which has been non-stop detective work for them over the last year.
The difference is one of scale (a dozen transponders vs > 400, decoding a a single standard protocol vs building a system to decode an array of proprietary protocols)
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The difference is one of scale (a dozen transponders vs > 400, decoding a a single standard protocol vs building a system to decode an array of proprietary protocols)
An interesting question is what the other warrants were for... In my experience, attachment A and B generally only get numbered when they're part of a larger group.
October 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
An interesting question is what the other warrants were for... In my experience, attachment A and B generally only get numbered when they're part of a larger group.
Next time “the Meg”
October 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Next time “the Meg”
Yeah, no idea on that one. After all YOU did not register the copyright.
September 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Yeah, no idea on that one. After all YOU did not register the copyright.
The open questions seem to be about a) whether "book" is limiting and b) if there is some kind of pro-rata thing for what fraction of a work was pirated.
September 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The open questions seem to be about a) whether "book" is limiting and b) if there is some kind of pro-rata thing for what fraction of a work was pirated.
I will point out that ACM Proceedings do have ISBN numbers and apparently ACM registered the copyrights. They look like class members to me... ditto IEEE.
September 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I will point out that ACM Proceedings do have ISBN numbers and apparently ACM registered the copyrights. They look like class members to me... ditto IEEE.
I also wonder if the term book is not salient. It has to have an Asin/isbn number. So perhaps a whole proceedings might be much a thing?
September 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I also wonder if the term book is not salient. It has to have an Asin/isbn number. So perhaps a whole proceedings might be much a thing?
In this respect I’m skeptical about the “it’s just a tool” analogy. That’s great when it’s interchangeable (ie purely labor saving). The advent of calculators made our arithmetic muscles atrophy, but so what? Generative AI text threatens to make our thinking muscles atrophy — different I think.
September 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In this respect I’m skeptical about the “it’s just a tool” analogy. That’s great when it’s interchangeable (ie purely labor saving). The advent of calculators made our arithmetic muscles atrophy, but so what? Generative AI text threatens to make our thinking muscles atrophy — different I think.
I think, from a student standpoint, writing is the most problematic case. Writing is the mechanism we have for thinking through problems, making them crisp and concrete. When we allow AI to do drafts of writing we are outsourcing our thinking and we don’t develop our own abilities.
September 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I think, from a student standpoint, writing is the most problematic case. Writing is the mechanism we have for thinking through problems, making them crisp and concrete. When we allow AI to do drafts of writing we are outsourcing our thinking and we don’t develop our own abilities.
Don’t you think Google’s change in how location history is stored is going to make this practically (albeit not legally) moot? Did anyone else offer geofence? Tower dumps maybe will be the next front here.
June 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Don’t you think Google’s change in how location history is stored is going to make this practically (albeit not legally) moot? Did anyone else offer geofence? Tower dumps maybe will be the next front here.
Tracy was also the founding drummer in UWs legendary “Anna’s All Girl Band” — an interdisciplinary systems/theory musical experience. Clearly he had it in his blood.
June 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Tracy was also the founding drummer in UWs legendary “Anna’s All Girl Band” — an interdisciplinary systems/theory musical experience. Clearly he had it in his blood.
The argument is that maybe a big part of the goal here is for students to learn at the beginning that they should be doing AEAD. We don’t teach miasma and leeches and then “work up” to medicine that works after all. I think bottom up leads people to believe they can be clever.
May 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The argument is that maybe a big part of the goal here is for students to learn at the beginning that they should be doing AEAD. We don’t teach miasma and leeches and then “work up” to medicine that works after all. I think bottom up leads people to believe they can be clever.
Every single one of your commenters seems to suggest bottom up. Arguing, rightly I suspect, that it’s pedagogically better to start with simpler things and compose them. I’ll play devils advocate and suggest the reverse.
May 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Every single one of your commenters seems to suggest bottom up. Arguing, rightly I suspect, that it’s pedagogically better to start with simpler things and compose them. I’ll play devils advocate and suggest the reverse.
On the other hand, some models come with deep indemnification pockets: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers - Microsoft On the Issues
With customers ask whether they can use Microsoft’s Copilot services without worrying about copyright claims, we are providing a straightforward answer: yes, you can, and if you are challenged on copy...
blogs.microsoft.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
On the other hand, some models come with deep indemnification pockets: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
With a secondary risk that there might be ownership interests from third parties whose code was used to train the model — something we very much don’t have clarity on in the US and perhaps even less so in the EU (courtesy Recital 105 of the AI act). Cross-border rules even less clear.
April 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
With a secondary risk that there might be ownership interests from third parties whose code was used to train the model — something we very much don’t have clarity on in the US and perhaps even less so in the EU (courtesy Recital 105 of the AI act). Cross-border rules even less clear.
“AFRAID--A Frequently Redundant Array of Independent Disks” www.usenix.org/conference/u...
We came up with the acronym first, months later I did a summer internship to figure out what it might mean, then paper, then patent. Names have power…
We came up with the acronym first, months later I did a summer internship to figure out what it might mean, then paper, then patent. Names have power…
AFRAID--A Frequently Redundant Array of Independent Disks | USENIXusenix_logo_notag_white
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April 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“AFRAID--A Frequently Redundant Array of Independent Disks” www.usenix.org/conference/u...
We came up with the acronym first, months later I did a summer internship to figure out what it might mean, then paper, then patent. Names have power…
We came up with the acronym first, months later I did a summer internship to figure out what it might mean, then paper, then patent. Names have power…
Those of us whose musical input has languished since we stopped living near you request a Spotify channel to follow :)
December 31, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Those of us whose musical input has languished since we stopped living near you request a Spotify channel to follow :)
Whale, don’t whale if you can’t get in. The application process is a killer and can feel cruwhale. But whether you can get in, Orcant, you’re all great and have a porpoise.
December 15, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Whale, don’t whale if you can’t get in. The application process is a killer and can feel cruwhale. But whether you can get in, Orcant, you’re all great and have a porpoise.
So many seally puns, bordering on sealf-indulgent…
December 15, 2024 at 8:11 PM
So many seally puns, bordering on sealf-indulgent…
Your comment that culture is peer-dynamics completely resonates with me. I think any time you create situations for positive-minded faculty to do things together -- and even better in public -- you create some social gravity that spills over.
December 9, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Your comment that culture is peer-dynamics completely resonates with me. I think any time you create situations for positive-minded faculty to do things together -- and even better in public -- you create some social gravity that spills over.