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ecosystem

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

People used the word “ecosystem” to describe sectors or networks of online marketing, digital investigation, criminal justice system, AI, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, NFT, etc.

Some definitions of ecosystem:

An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscapes, work together to form a bubble of life. —— National Geographic Education
An ecosystem is the basic unit of the field of the scientific study of nature. According to this discipline, an ecosystem is a physically defined environment, made up of two inseparable components:

Charles de Gaulle

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Curtis Cate, The Atlantic. Charles de Gaulle: The Last Romantic. November 1960 Issue.

“The facts may prove me wrong,” Charles de Gaulle one day declared to his Finance Minister, Antoine Pinay, “but history will prove me right.” To which M. Pinay replied: “But, mon Général, I thought history was written with facts.” Today (1960) many of the facts are known, but President de Gaulle’s ultimate historical destiny is as unpredictable as ever. Curtis Cate, who represents the Atlantic in Europe, here probes the strengths and failings of one of the most complex Frenchmen of our times. (Brackets added.)

Presumption

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Since 2013, questions were asked:

A judge hears a case and accepts one party’s version. That party provides a convincing submission. The judge lifts, makes some modifications, and circulates as his judgment.

What is wrong with that? Put it another way, does the judge have to re-invent the wheel by paraphrasing the arguments of the parties?

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada gave its judgement in Cojocaru v. British Columbia Women’s Hospital and Health Centre [2013] 2 SCR 357:

Ripples

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Erevnitíspoid watched 2 videos.

A simple act of caring creates an endless ripple.

The first one is in Thai with English transcription.

A business man decided to buy a corner shop that served food in a good neighbourhood. He learned something about the manager.

The second one is in English with Chinese transcription.

Surely You're Joking

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Education is not the learning of facts. It’s rather the training of the mind to think.

—— Albert Einstein

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

—— Thomas Edison

You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach other to pass exams, but nobody knows anything. … You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.

Emigration

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

Some villagers did not understand English. They received a tape cassette from England. The village head summonsed Yufen Chun to do an extempore translation. They also got a newspaper clipping from England. Yufen Chun also translated it to them.

The news were about a tot who had emigrated to England from their village.

The big news were that Her Majesty the Queen hosted a dinner for her in 1986.

How to Speak by Patrick Winston

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

Professor Patrick Henry Winston is best known for teaching 6.034 (Artificial Intelligence) at MIT. He was also renowned for his wildly popular IAP (Independent Activities Period) talk, “How to Speak”.

How to Speak

About 40 years ago, the late Professor Patrick Henry Winston started his first talk on ``How to Speak’’.

By the end of the next 60 minutes you will have been exposed to a lot of ideas, some of which you will incorporate into your own repertoire, and they will ensure that you get the maximum opportunity to have your ideas valued and accepted by the people you speak with. —— Patrick Henry Winston

The Craft of Writing Effectively by Larry McEnerney

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house.

—— J. H. Poincaré

Introduction

Video 1 is a seminar, conducted at the ChungAng University in South Korea by Kevin J. Heintz. He explained to graduate students how to convey effectively their research findings. It is entitled “How to Write an Effective Research Paper”.

Forgive and let go

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Life Vest Inside is a 5013 non-profit grass-roots organization based in New York City, United States. It prevents social issues such as bullying, depression, and substance abuse from materializing by taking a proactive approach.

What is “5013”?

Section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code allows for federal tax exemption of non-profit organizations, specifically those that are considered public charities, private foundations or private operating foundations. It is regulated and administered by the US Department of Treasury through the Internal Revenue Service.

Law reports: Hierarchy and the status of authorities

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Appeal Court practice direction of 2012 clarifies the practice and procedure governing the citation of legal authorities and applies throughout England & Wales, including the Crown Court, county courts and magistrates courts. Where a law report is available, particularly if the case has been reported in one of the ‘official series’; e.g. The Law Reports published by the ICLR, it must be cited and referred to in preference to any other. (See Practice Direction (Citation of Authorities) [2012] 1 WLR 780.)

Enemy

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

“I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I’m sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah calls ‘possession of my soul’. There are times since, I’ve felt like a child, born of those two fathers. But be that as it may, those who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what’s left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.”

Host by Rbind Project

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

How to write and host a blog?

Tutorial

Alison Hill and Marek Czernek gave a very useful step by step guide. Herebelow is a summary mainly leading to a domain name provided by the “Rbind Project”.

Use blogdown to write a static website blog. Here is a useful tutorial from Alison Hill. Here is a useful tutorial from Marek Czernek (Red Hat).
Test run the blog on a local host.

Click button experts

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The goods news for technical experts may be that the commercial software is increasingly being designed to conduct analysis tasks and automatic domain knowl- edge and expertise. For instance, . . . This “click button expertise” poses a challenge to legal rules governing the reliability of an expert’s methodology and the underlying data. It may also lead an opponent to query “Is the expert or the software performing the actual analysis?” If [the] methodology is to be assessed, the analysis and methodology must be reproducible and transparent.

Bad man

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

My friends, remember this, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

——— Victor Hugo / Les Misérables

朋友們，你們要記住，世上沒有所謂的雜草，也沒有所謂的壞人。只有壞的耕耘者

Things hold in our hands

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The only things that we can hold in our cold dead hands are those which we have given away.

——— Quoted by Mr Vincent Wing-Sum Wong on an occasion.

Good Stuff

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff. ——– Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 - February 27, 2003), an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister.

Graduation Speech

Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Video of the speech of Admiral William McRave

The video of Admiral William McRaven’s address at the University of Texas at Austin to the Class of 2014 is available here.

A Chinese translation by 洪曉慧 of the speech is available here.

威廉．麥克雷文上將為2014年德州大學奧斯汀分校畢業生演講有中文字幕的演講視頻在這裡。

10 Life Lessons from Admiral William McRaven

Start the day with a task completed.
Find someone to help you through life.
Respect everyone.
Life is not always fair, move forward.
Don’t be afraid to fail often.
Take risks.
Face down the bullies.
Step up when times are toughest.
Lift up the downtrodden.
Never give up.

威廉．麥克雷海軍上將的10條人生教訓

每天從完成一個任務開始。
尋找在人生旅程中幫助你的人。
尊重每一個人。
瞭解人生並不公平。
失敗乃家常便飯。
承担一些風险。
不畏強權。
在最艱難的時刻勇往直前。
扶起受壓迫的人。
永不放棄。

Never Run When You are Right

Sat, 09 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

On September 11, 1959, Frank Serpico joined the New York City Police Department as a probationary patrol man.

On 3 February 1971, he pretended to make a drug purchase and attempted to make drug dealers to open the door. A suspect opened the door a few inches. He wedged his body in. He asked his colleagues to help. They ignored him. The suspect shot him in the face with a .22 LR pistol. The bullet struck just below his eye, lodging at the top of his jaw. He began to bleed profusely. He fired back striking his assailant to the floor.

The Song of the Righteous Spirit

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Song of the Righteous Spirit

在齊太史簡 In Qi, it was the Grand Historian’s bamboo slips [that told of Cui Zhu’s assassination of Duke Zhuang];

在晉董狐筆 In Jin, it was the brush of Dong Hu [that attributed blame to Zhao Dun for Duke Ling’s murder].

在秦張良椎 In Qin, it was the hammer of Zhang Liang [with which he attacked Qin Shihuang’s carriage];

One Candle vs. Darkness

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

William L. Watkinson, The Invincible Strategy, in The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America, 1907:

But denunciatory rhetoric is so much easier and cheaper than good works, and proves a popular temptation. Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.

If everyone lights a candle . . .

Prologue and Epilogue

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Why do you use “prologue” and “epilogue” to start and end a blog?

It is because life is like a play. They remind readers not to take the contents of this “blog” seriously.

你為什麼用「開場白」和「收場白」去開始和結束博客文章？

因為人生如戲。讀者不用對這個「博客」的內文認真。

Who is a scientist

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

This is the story of an academic researcher who identified a massive error in her own published work. She realised that she had reached the wrong conclusions because of the error.

The paper and the mistake

Julia Strand is an assistant professor of psychology at Carleton College. In 2018, she and 2 co-authors published a paper in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. It is a paper about how people strain to listen in crowded spaces. The paper is entitled Talking points: A modulating circle reduces listening effort without improving speech recognition.

Third party proof-reading

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

Can a MSc student ask another person to correct his mistakes in “presentation, grammar, spell, etc.”?

Students and professional proofreaders posed similar questions on the internet. The common phrases include “proofreading”, “plagiarism” and “academic misconduct”.

Whistleblowers

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

Keymed (Medical & Industrial Equipment) Ltd v Hillman & Anor [2019] EWHC 485 (Ch) (11 March 2019)

The former CEO of Olympus, who blew the whistle in 2011 on a massive accounting scandal at the medical equipment maker, has won a London court battle over alleged wrongdoing linked to his £64 million (¥9.4 billion) pension.

Writing Scientific Papers

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

Can a master of science degree student finish his final year project report within 5 months?

The project report is more than a pre-requisite for his graduation. It is a learning process to:

cultivate a student’s scientific research ability;
use his comprehensive knowledge to analyse and solve problems.

Suggestions

Here are some videos with suggestions in the Chinese language.

Writing Tips

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Writing tips

Writing well — Doug Neill

The essence of writing

Postgraduate Diploma in IT Forensics

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

I started to teach in the programme for the Postgraduate Diploma in IT Forensics (PgDITF) in 2009. The HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKUSPACE) offered the programme. HKUSAPCE is an extension of The University of Hong Kong. HKUSPACE .

In July 2019, I told them that I had decided to go back to school as a student again. I told them that they have to look for another teacher.

MSc Final Year Writing

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

A good report tells us the truth about its research; but a bad report tells us the truth about its author. —- modified from G.K. Chesterton, Heretics.

Phrase-bank

Dr John Morley, University of Manchester, Academic Phrasebank
Springer, English for Writing Research Papers Useful Phrases

Writing Guides

Dr Sandra Shannon, A Guide to Academic and Scholarly Writing
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Moeckel, Typical Structure of a Master’s Thesis

Trust, But Verify

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The title came from the 2013 cover story of The Economist, How Science Goes Wrong.

Reproducibility and replicability are hallmarks of good science. In 2019, the Committee on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science published their report on the subject. The report is entitled Reproducibility and Replicability in Science. Regarding the importance of reproducibility and replicability, it stated:

Reproducibility and replicability are often cited as hallmarks of good science. Being able to reproduce the computational results of another researcher starting with the same data and replicate a previous study to test its results or inferences both facilitate the self-correcting nature of science. A newly reported discovery may prompt retesting and confirmation, examination of the limits of the original result, and reconsideration, affirmation, or extension of existing scientific theory.

The one there, where the lamplight was fading

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Kuo-wei Wang. Poetic Remarks in the Human World¹:

From the ancient time to the present day, all those who have been highly successful in great ventures and in the pursuit of learning must of necessity have experienced thee modes of jingjie.

Last night the west wind shrivelled the green-clad trees. Alone I climb the high tower to gaze my fill along the road to the horizon.” This expresses the first stage.

Not everything that is legal is right

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The Berlin Wall separated the East Berlin and the West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The Berlin Wall was more than 140 kilometres long. In June 1962, a parallel fence was built some 100 meters father into East Germany territory. The Berlin Wall and the closing of the border stopped the flow of emigrants.

Chris Gueffroy was the last person to be shot in an escape attempt while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin. He and his friend, Christian Gaudian, decided to leave East Germany. They climbed the metal lattice fence of the Berlin Wall. They were discovered. The National People’s Army border troops shot them. Gueffroy was hit in the chest by two shots. He died in the border strip. Gaudian was badly injured, was arrested and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment.

Blood and stone

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Background

Data Protection Principles and its exceptions are difficult to understand, at least for some people.

Unfortunately this piece of legislation [Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance of 1996] has been misconstrued and misunderstood (or simply not understood) by many in many circumstances. Government departments and private institutions often consider that it encourages secretiveness and lack of cooperation failing to understand that its purpose is to protect data where necessary, not to obstruct across the board. A frequently experienced, though minor example, is of the official, usually a low-ranking one, who on contacting a customer (potential or existing) and ascertaining that the latter’s identity accords with the details he has in front of him or her, is then asked in return who he or she is. The response is to give the name of the department or institution on whose behalf he or she is telephoning, or at best a Christian name, and then on further questioning to decline to give proper identification falling back on the lame excuse – “I am not allowed to give it – data protection!” (Square brackets added.) — Honourable Deputy High Court Judge Seagroatt, Chan Chuen Ping and The Commissioner of Police, HCMP 2741/2013, [2014] 1 HKLRD 142, paragraph 17.

Policing - adapting to protest

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Why study history?

The answer is because we virtually must, to gain access to the laboratory of human experience. When we study it reasonably well, and so acquire some usable habits of mind, as well as some basic data about the forces that affect our own lives, we emerge with relevant skills and an enhanced capacity for informed citizenship, critical thinking, and simple awareness. – Peter N. Stearns, Why Study History? (1998)

Commission on Campus Unrest

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

— Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 King James Version

Sense of proportion for protestors and sentencers?

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

In R v Jones [2007] 1 AC 136 (HL), Lord Hoffmann explained the roles of parties in relation to the acts of civil disobedience. In that regards, His Lordship said:

My Lords, civil disobedience on conscientious grounds has a long and honourable history in this country. People who break the law to affirm their belief in the injustice of a law or government action are sometimes vindicated by history. The suffragettes are an example which comes immediately to mind. It is the mark of a civilised community that it can accommodate protests and demonstrations of this kind. But there are conventions which are generally accepted by the law-breakers on one side and the law-enforcers on the other. The protesters behave with a sense of proportion and do not cause excessive damage or inconvenience. And they vouch the sincerity of their beliefs by accepting the penalties imposed by the law. The police and prosecutors, on the other hand, behave with restraint and the magistrates impose sentences which take the conscientious motives of the protesters into account. The conditional discharges ordered by the magistrates in the cases which came before them exemplifies their sensitivity to these conventions.

Who guards the guards regarding proportionality on the parts of the protestors, the law-enforcers and the sentencers?

Time: Person of the Year 2018

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Guardians and the War on Truth

The Guardians and the War on Truth

“Accuracy, fairness, professionalism—the pillars of journalism took root in the U.S. and Britain, spread around the world, and remain the standard. In the U.S., the press retains qualities of a citadel, protected not only by laws and court decisions, but the awareness of the great majority of public officials who serve something larger than themselves.”

BIS 4630 LW-17 Revision

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

BIS 4630

The Middlesex University offers the MSc degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics in Hong Kong, in collaboration with the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong University, Pokfulam.

The course consists of five modules. They are:

Digital Investigation and Evidence Management (30 Credits) - Compulsory
BIS 4600 Legal and Professional Aspects of Digital Forensics (30 Credits) - Compulsory

BIS 4630 LW1-2 Course Introduction & Fraud

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

BIS 4630

The course consists of five modules. They are:

Digital Investigation and Evidence Management (30 Credits) - Compulsory
BIS 4600 Legal and Professional Aspects of Digital Forensics (30 Credits) - Compulsory

BIS 4630 LW12-13 Information Security

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

BIS 4630

The course consists of five modules. They are:

Digital Investigation and Evidence Management (30 Credits) - Compulsory
BIS 4600 Legal and Professional Aspects of Digital Forensics (30 Credits) - Compulsory

BIS 4630 LW14-16 Corporate Governance

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

BIS 4630

The course consists of five modules. They are:

Digital Investigation and Evidence Management (30 Credits) - Compulsory
BIS 4600 Legal and Professional Aspects of Digital Forensics (30 Credits) - Compulsory

BIS 4630 LW6-8 Market Abuse

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

BIS 4630

The course consists of five modules. They are:

Digital Investigation and Evidence Management (30 Credits) - Compulsory
BIS 4600 Legal and Professional Aspects of Digital Forensics (30 Credits) - Compulsory

BIS 4630 LW9-11 Anti Bribery Corruption

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

BIS 4630

The course consists of five modules. They are:

Digital Investigation and Evidence Management (30 Credits) - Compulsory
BIS 4600 Legal and Professional Aspects of Digital Forensics (30 Credits) - Compulsory

To entreprenur

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

The nature of ambition

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Nature of Ambition

The Nature of Ambition

To postdoctoral researchers, PhD turned entrepreneurs and PhD students, I recommend the words of Grant Snider:

If you are lucky, you will find something you love doing.
Others will take notice.
You’ll strive to improve your skills.
Your work will grow to define you.
Eventually, you will gain recognition for it.
But you may encounter backlash.
Inner turmoil.
Fierce competition.
And self-doubt.
In the struggle for greatness, your work will become bigger! Faster! More Exotic!
Until you finally lose control.
And you’re left with nothing.
Except the thing you loved in the first place.

People can and do change (Part 3)?

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

General Medical Council v. Chandra [2018] EWCA Civ 1898

General Medical Council v. Chandra [2018] EWCA Civ 1898

“Held, (1) the test to be applied when considering applications for restoration to the medical register was the same as that to be applied when considering the restoration of solicitors to the Roll of Solicitors, save that in respect of the former a test of exceptional circumstances did not have to be satisfied before a doctor was so restored. The question in both sanction and restoration cases was the same, namely whether, having regard to the over-arching objective in the 1983 Act, the applicant was fit to practise? When considering an application for restoration to the medical register, the tribunal should consider the matters in the Guidance for Doctors on Restoration following erasure by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal, including the circumstances that led to the erasure. It should make findings as to what extent the applicant had shown remorse and insight and remediated himself and satisfy itself that he was no longer a risk. The passage of time would be important. The tribunal should then stand back and have proper regard to the over-arching objective set out in section 1(1A) and (1B) of the 1983 Act (paras 59, 68, 70, 71, 89).”

Entrepreneur self-learning

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

It is all beauty in the eyes of the beholder.

Alexandar Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur. Business Model Generation.
Sean Chen. Startup 2.0: Startup Manual for Enginners.
Delft University of Technology. How to Design a Successful Business Model.
Delft University of Technology. Business Model Testing.
Delft University of Technology. Business Model Implementation.
Delft University of Technology. Business Model Innovation.
Harvard Business Review (Chinese version).

Writing of judgments

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne Dyer

Cited by Her Ladyship YA Datuk Nallini Pathmanathan, Court of Appeal Judge, Malaysia, in Managing and Enhancing Quality in Judicial Performance & the Writing of Judgments

Life is too complicated to put it simply

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Life is too complicated

Life is complicated and it is difficult to put it simply.

“I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
How can I turn from Africa and live?”

Ch 1 Big Data's watch eye

Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Big data’s watchful eye
- What is big data?
- Examples

Big data’s watchful eye

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: the Hound of the Baskerville, 28 (ebook pub. 2016)

What is big data?

Report to the President

“There are many definitions of big data which may differ depending on whether you are a computer scientist, a financial analyst, or an entrepreneur pitching an idea to a venture capitalist. Most definitions reflect the growing technological ability to capture, aggregate, and process an ever-greater volume, velocity and variety of data.”

Pitfalls in writing researches

Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A researcher on the road from the framing of a research question to the publication of the manuscript may be led astray by pitfalls.

In their paper, Nine pitfalls of research misconduct, published on 15 May 2018 in the Nature Magazine, Gunsalus and Robinson coined the mnemonic “TRAGEDIES” to capture the interlocking factors that may lead to such astray. TRAGEDIES represents:

Temptation
Rationalization
Ambition
Group and authority pressure
Entitlement
Deception
Incrementalism
Embarrassment
Stupid systems

Gunsalus and Robinson gave some examples:

English as a foreign language writing

Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Prologue

“Dr Smith, we are happy to accept your superbly written paper for publication in the Journal. Tell me, who wrote it for you?”

“Dr Smith answered: ‘I am so happy that you found my paper acceptable. Tell me, who read it to you?’”

Preproducibility and cargo cult science

Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Reproducibility

In 1660, Boyle published his landmark book, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effect. In the book, he described the first controlled experiments of the effects of reducing the pressure of the air. He gave the purpose of the book:

” . . . I thought it necessary to deliver things circumstantially, that the Person I addressed them to might, without mistake, and with as little trouble as possible, be able to repeat such unusual Experiments . . . ”

How to read a paper and write a literature review

Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A classic paper

Researchers and students spend a great deal of time reading scientific papers.

In 1988, a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a classic paper to give advice to researchers and students. David Chapman also edited the paper. The paper is: David Chapman (Ed.). How to Do Research at the MIT AI Lab. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Working Papers, WP-316, October 1988.

People can and do change (Part 2)?

Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Anita Jowitt. The Impact of Plagiarism on Admission to the Bar: Re Liveri [2006] QCA 152. Journal of South Pacific Law, (2007) 11(2): 213 – 217.

“In deciding whether this particular applicant’s history of academic misconduct should lead to a decision that the applicant was unfit to be admitted to the bar, the court considered:”

People can and do change?

Mon, 21 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In re Application for admission as a Barrister and Solicitor by A [2014] FJHC 39

A sought admission to the Bar. His application was objected.

A was an employee of the Legal Aid Commission. He was a senior Administrative Officer. During his employment, he studied the Professional Diploma in Legal Practice course at the University of the South Pacific. He had obtained approval for study leave with the condition that he undertook official duties either before or after classes, including weekends. As a senior Administrative Officer, A was heavily burdened with public tasks. The course lasted for 21 weeks.

Self-publishing

Mon, 21 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Exclusive rights to do restricted act

Authors wish their works to be distributed or sold. As authors, they are the owners of the copyrights in their works. They have the exclusive right to do the following acts:

to copy the work;
to issue copies of the work to the public;
to rent copies of the work to the public;

Typography matters

Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

“Typography matters because it helps conserve the most valuable resource you have as a writer—reader attention. Attention is the reader’s gift to you. That gift is precious. It is finite. And if you fail to be a respectful steward of that gift, it will be revoked.”

— Matthew Butterick, Typography for Lawyers.

“Like oratory, music, dance, calligraphy—like anything that lends its grace to language—typography is an art that can be deliberately misused. It is a craft by which the meanings of a text (or its absence of meaning) can be clarified, honored and shared, or knowingly disguised.”

Debate on public issues

Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

“Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”

“In the realm of religious faith, and in that of political belief, sharp differences arise. In both fields, the tenets of one man may seem the rankest error to his neighbor. To persuade others to his own point of view, the pleader, as we know, at times resorts to exaggeration, to vilification of men who have been, or are, prominent in church or state, and even to false statement. But the people of this nation have ordained, in the light of history, that, in spite of the probability of excesses and abuses, these liberties are, in the long view, essential to enlightened opinion and right conduct on the part of the citizens of a democracy.”

Great cases make bad law

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“Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgement. These immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful and before which even well-settled principles of law will bend.”

Basic truth