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On Fake Research, “Academic” Spam, and ASEO

03 Thursday Sep 2020

Posted by egarcia in Quack Science, SEO Myths, Spam

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aseo, COVID-19, fake research, seo spam, spam

Oldie but goodie. Little has changed since then as can be seen from the comparative below.

BEFORE: ASEO

Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience Against it
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0013.305?view=text;rgn=main

What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia
Three scholars wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/

NOW: CSEO

CSEO = Covid SEO

Covid Spam/Scam.
https://www.google.com/search?q=coronavirus%20spam

The Almost Binary Heuristic

02 Thursday Jul 2020

Posted by egarcia in Algorithms

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almost binary, Bond Order, bond order calculator, heuristic

Yet another bond order calculation heuristic that still fail.

I describe this new heuristic, The Almost Binary Heuristic, in the “What is computed?” section of the bond order calculator at
http://www.minerazzi.com/tools/bond-order/calculator.php

The tool itself is described in the Bond Order Calculator Tool post at https://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/bond-order-calculator-tool/

The Almost Binary Heuristic is aimed at computing bond orders of diatomic species having up to 20 electrons in a straightforward manner. The heuristic can be used to reproduce the results of our bond order calculator tool.

I’ve included the php script that generates the so-called “phone number” trick for computing bond orders of diatomic species with up to 20 electrons.

Feel free to copy/rewrite the code with your favorite programming language or use it to build your own bond order calculator tool. Just please keep the credit lines in place. 🙂

Cheers

Vector Space Explorer Tool

07 Sunday Jun 2020

Posted by egarcia in Algorithms, cosine similarity, Data Mining, information retrieval, ir, IR Tools, minerazzi, Queries, Ranking Results, search engines, Software, Vector Space Models, Web Mining

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global weights, local weights, term vector theory, term vectors, tf-idf, vector space explorer, Vector Space Models

Vector Space Explorer Tool is a new tool from Minerazzi, available now at

http://www.minerazzi.com/tools/vector-space-explorer/explorer.php

VSE is aimed at exploring combinations of local (e.g., FREQ, ATF1,…) and global (e.g., IDF, IDFP,…) term weighting schemes for documents and queries. All kind of combinations can be easily explored.

The tool lists results in decreasing order of cosine similarity scores, with or without implementing stopwords removal and parametric corrections.

VSE was developed for computer science students and those interested in information retrieval systems so they can learn how IR systems work.

First-time users may want to try the examples provided by pressing the Try This Example button from the tool. It is possible to cycle through the examples by repetitive pressing this button. Some of the examples list top titles obtained by querying commercial search engines.

Accepting the default settings instructs VSE to remove stopwords and implement the FREQ Model, also known as the Term Count Model. This is one of the simplest vector space implementations where term weights are mere raw frequencies (term counts).

Revamping the Cosine Similarity Calculator Tool

18 Saturday Apr 2020

Posted by egarcia in Algorithms, cosine similarity, Data Mining

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cosine similarity, cosine similarity calculator, distance metric, similarity-distance transformations

One of the most interesting problems in data mining and cluster analysis relates to the transformation of similarities into distances without breaking the triangular inequality condition for a distance metric.

Some of the transformations found in the literature are based on heuristics and tricks of the trade, or based on assumptions applicable to a given knowledge domain. This topic is discussed in our tutorial on distance and similarity (http://www.minerazzi.com/tutorials/distance-similarity-tutorial.pdf).

We have incorporated to our Cosine Similarity Calculator a simple methodology that easily transforms cosine similarities into distances while obeying the requirements for a distance metric. It all boils down to mean-centering the variables.

Check our revamped and improved Cosine Similarity Calculator tool now at

http://www.minerazzi.com/tools/cosine-similarity/cosine-similarity-calculator.php

RAR Parser |An RSS, ATOM, and RDF Parser

06 Monday Apr 2020

Posted by egarcia in Algorithms, Data Mining, Feed Tools, information retrieval, IR Tools, minerazzi, RSS/Atom Feeds, social pulse parser

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Atom, feeds parser, news feeds, rar parser, rdf, RSS, web feeds

The RAR Parser is a tool that lets you read RSS, ATOM, and RDF news feeds, without subscribing. It is available at http://minerazzi.com/tools/rar/feeds-parser.php

A practical example: By submitting the MIT Health Sciences and Technology news feeds url http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/Health, the following news relevant to COVID-19 were obtained, among others. Results might change as time evolves.

MIT scientist helps build Covid-19 resource to address shortage of face mask http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-scientist-jill-crittenden-helps-build-covid-19-resource-addressing-face-mask-shortage-0403

MIT initiates mass manufacture of disposable face shields for Covid-19 response http://news.mit.edu/2020/face-shield-ppe-manufacture-covid-19-0331

An experimental peptide could block Covid-19 http://news.mit.edu/2020/peptide-drug-block-covid-19-cells-0327

3 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment http://news.mit.edu/2020/3q-risks-using-3d-printing-make-personal-protective-equipment-0326

Latent Simplex Position Model

30 Monday Mar 2020

Posted by egarcia in Algorithms, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Structures, Machine Learning, Statistics and Mathematics

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latent simplex position, latent simplex position model

This is an amazing research: Latent Simplex Position Model: High Dimensional Multi-view Clusteringwith Uncertainty Quantification, by Prof. Leo Duan from Department of Statistics University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Click to access 19-239.pdf

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Miner

20 Friday Mar 2020

Posted by egarcia in coronavirus (COVID-19), miner, minerazzi, News

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coronavirus, COVID-19

Just launched: The Coronavirus COVID-19 Miner http://www.minerazzi.com/coronavirus/

Resources will be added to the index as the coronavirus pandemic evolves. Find databases, research articles, and resources relevant to the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Build your own curated collection by extracting links from search results as well as scripts, contacts, and other type of data from same results.

You can also use this miner news channel to find news, stories, alerts, updates, and more from the CDC and other trusted sources.

The Ideal Gas Law Oracle

06 Friday Mar 2020

Posted by egarcia in Algorithms, chemical mining, chemistry, Chemometrics, IR Tools, miner, minerazzi, Programming

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chemistry, ideal gas law, ideal gas law oracle, oracle

Most online calculators reduce the user experience to returning results in response to some input data. As a tools developer, I know this quite well.

I’ve been asking to myself, “Why not use a different approach and build calculators that behave as oracles?” By an oracle I mean a black box that converts the input data into a user’s question (the query) and the output (the response) into the answer to the question.

To truly behave as an oracle, said tool should also take care of most of the tasks a user is expected to do. The tool should also “react” to mistakes made by a user.

With that in mind, here is my first attempt at turning an online calculator into an oracle-like tool: The Ideal Gas Law Oracle (http://www.minerazzi.com/tools/ideal-gas-law/oracle.php).

This one even takes care of significant figures and unit conversions. Chemistry teachers and students might find it useful. For instance, teachers can use the tool to add content to lecture notes, quizzes, and tests. Students can use it to double-check exercise results from homeworks and textbooks.

Weighted Averages of Correlation Coefficients

07 Friday Feb 2020

Posted by egarcia in Correlation Coefficients, Fisher Transformations, Mathematics, self-weighting, Statistics and Mathematics

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Correlation Coefficients, self-weighting, weighted correlation coefficients

There is a great discussion on weighted averages of correlation coefficients at https://www.researchgate.net/post/average_of_Pearson_correlation_coefficient_values

My most recent comments there are given below.

“The main reason for not averaging correlation coefficients in the arithmetic sense follows.”

“Correlations coefficients cannot be averaged in the arithmetic sense as they are not additive in the arithmetic sense. This is due to the fact that a correlation coefficient is a cosine, and cosines are not additive. This can be understood by mean-centering a paired data set and computing the cosine similarity between the vectors representing the variables involved.”

“If a paired data set violates the bivariative normality assumption (often overlooked, as Seifert correctly asserted), that worsens the picture. However, even if it doesn’t violates bivariative normality the computed average is a mathematically invalid exercise. If a meta analysis study is based on these averages the results can be easily challenged on these grounds.”

“Sample-size weighting is a good start, as Seifert asserted. We can certainly do better. We may compute self-weighted averages from one, more than one, or all of the constituent terms of a correlation coefficient, to account for different types of variability information present in the paired data, which otherwise might be ignored by simply sample-size weighting or applying Fisher Transformations. Which self-weighting scheme to use depends on the source of variability information to be considered (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03610926.2011.654037).”

On the Internet of Senses and Cyborg Organoids

04 Saturday Jan 2020

Posted by egarcia in BioDesign, bioinformatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet of Senses

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cyborgs, Internet of Senses, Organoids

In a previous post on the Internet of Senses, https://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/internet-of-senses-miner/, the bell was rung. It is a matter of time for the human-electronic interfaces and hypersenses revolution.

Cyborg organoids are real and are here. Below is one bit of the blue print:

“Cyborg Organoids: Implantation of Nanoelectronics via Organogenesis for Tissue-Wide Electrophysiology”.

Links relevant to this reseach follow:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02512

Click to access 697664.full.pdf

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/697664v1

“Cyborg” Human Organ Grown in a Dish

Watch the beating of a cyborg heart here:

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Cyborgcardiacorganoid.mp4?_=1

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