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Zombie citations: A short empirical investigation

If the air traffic control scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .

Posted on November 14, 2026 5:40 PM by Andrew

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Raphael K on Zombie citations: A short empirical investigationNovember 14, 2026 5:28 PM
@Raghu Pathasarathy: I am not sure when you last read a term paper written by a student at the lower…
Kyle C on Zombie citations: A short empirical investigationNovember 14, 2026 5:21 PM
That's interesting, in the law, judicial decisions about lawyers filing briefs containing hallucinated authorities are still on the upswing. I…
Visruth on Zombie citations: A short empirical investigationNovember 14, 2026 5:09 PM
Yeah supposedly not as big of a deal anymore: https://zou-group.github.io/llm-claims-shelf-life/ Very cool (interactive!) paper. See C11 for the citation result.
Anonymous on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 14, 2026 4:33 PM
Anoneuoid: A covert investigation of their own asset makes sense. An overt one that the media knows about does not.…
Anoneuoid on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 14, 2026 3:04 PM
@Anonymous The implausible premise was that the chinese gov was too incompetent to have open investigations into their intelligence assets.…
Anonymous on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 14, 2026 2:43 PM
It’s not a premise. It’s just a piece of supporting evidence. Maybe this wasn’t clear in the previous comment, I…
Anoneuoid on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 14, 2026 2:12 PM
Would Chinese intelligence need to investigate their own asset? Seems like the height of incompetence not to have ongoing investigations…
Raghu Parthasarathy on Zombie citations: A short empirical investigationNovember 14, 2026 1:49 PM
Are hallucinated citations still a major issue? In 2025, sure; that's when I think the data cited by the paper…
Alper San on Know your data, recode missing data codesNovember 14, 2026 1:32 PM
There is a second layer of missingness in time-series data: a missing field and a missing observation are different problems.…
AAAnonymous on Zombie citations: A short empirical investigationNovember 14, 2026 11:57 AM
This blog post reminded me of two articles I know of that mention some sort of checking of how citations…
Anonymous on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 14, 2026 10:46 AM
Right. Though in my view it's just that the neocons want to put more export controls on China. Jensen was…
AAAnonymous on “I think there’s an argument to be made that much meta-scientific work is a kind of mirror image of the empirical work it critiques”November 14, 2026 10:36 AM
Quote from above: "I think these two examples are relevant and possibly interesting examples concerning the quote above about meta-science.…
Anoneuoid on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 14, 2026 8:22 AM
Didn't the scandalous behavior happen long ago? It was only just now reported in the news for some reason. I'd…
Andrew on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 13, 2026 10:29 PM
Joshua: I doubt that piece of news would've done much of anything.
Simon Brauer on Constructing a latent-variable model to fit measurement data: A polychoric storyNovember 13, 2026 8:27 PM
The original function is designed to work with bivariate copulas, which take quantiles `u` and `v` rather than the raw…
Joshua on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 13, 2026 8:23 PM
But if the Huang thing had happened weeks ago, maybe the election outcome would have skewed even more towards the…
oncodoc on If the Jensen Huang / Nvidia spy scandal had happened two weeks ago . . .November 13, 2026 8:23 PM
Yes, after an event there are always very wise analyses of what happened. Yet these same smart people have little…
Kenneth W. Gareau on “Of all people who most recently tied the knot 50 or more years ago, and who haven’t yet died, X percent have made it this far without divorcing or becoming widowed” . . . What is X?November 13, 2026 7:41 PM
My wife and I are still married to each other and doing fine after being married in Rockaway Beach Long…
Phil on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 5:49 PM
Bob, thanks. Another demonstration of the fact that you can't trust these LLMs, wonderful as they are. It took slightly…
Andrew on Constructing a latent-variable model to fit measurement data: A polychoric storyNovember 13, 2026 5:08 PM
Simon: Cool---I had no idea that this function was available in Stan. I just have a quick question: it's the…
Raphael K on When is a class a “commodity” and when does it depend on the instructor?November 13, 2026 4:01 PM
The way we assign topics to students at the chair that I am working at is by having them sign…
Bob Carpenter on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 3:14 PM
Phil: Given that you have the keys to the blog, you can put images in comments by uploading media the…
Simon Brauer on Constructing a latent-variable model to fit measurement data: A polychoric storyNovember 13, 2026 1:47 PM
Spot on. And thanks to Sean Pinkney for having coded the bivariate normal CDF, you can estimate this in Stan.…
Steve Bronder on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 1:03 PM
lmao tyty. I think I just found a lot of inspiration for the next time I make flyers to put…
Steve Bronder on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 1:01 PM
I wonder if there are enough examples online for the LLM to use these?
Steve Bronder on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 1:01 PM
That is a really cool mockup thank you! Yes I do agree the density of information is nice. When I…
Steve Bronder on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 12:37 PM
Yes! now that I have the spotify link search stuff setup I'm going to see about also supporting other music…
JT on When is a class a “commodity” and when does it depend on the instructor?November 13, 2026 12:09 PM
Presumably, the number of students who might want to do research with a given faculty member is greater than the…
Lukas Lohse on Constructing a latent-variable model to fit measurement data: A Stan story, part 1November 13, 2026 11:48 AM
Good to know that happens to the best of us:) Anyway while may have your attention, I want to say,…
Bob Carpenter on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 11:32 AM
I already put in that feature request, since I still had to do that step manually and I don't use…
Bob Carpenter on When is a class a “commodity” and when does it depend on the instructor?November 13, 2026 11:28 AM
Students often view projects with faculty the same way as homework in that they expect a professor to assign them…
Raghuveer Parthasarathy on When is a class a “commodity” and when does it depend on the instructor?November 13, 2026 11:16 AM
Presumably, the number of stats faculty one might want to do research with is greater than the number stats courses…
Daniel Lakeland on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 11:07 AM
Steve... The filtering Phil is talking about is the kind of thing that Datalog or miniKanren would make sense for...…
Raphael K on Bayesian Workflow (my talk in NYC, Wed 18 Nov 2:30pm)November 13, 2026 10:48 AM
Do you know whether the link to the livestream is publicly available, or if it is only sent to people…
Anonymous on When is a class a “commodity” and when does it depend on the instructor?November 13, 2026 10:35 AM
Don't sleep on blogs and open-source. The Stan Development Team and affiliates have a lot of good resources to check…
Andrew on Constructing a latent-variable model to fit measurement data: A Stan story, part 1November 13, 2026 10:26 AM
Lukas: Aaahhhh, that could be. And I kept changing the damn script so now I don't have the original code…
Andrew on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 10:20 AM
Roy: Yeah, Mark's bike activism is cool. The part I didn't like was when he endorsed the claim that the…
Roy on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 9:45 AM
actually replying to Andrew's comment, it is interesting how complicated people are. This from Wikipedia on the Limewire developer: "In…
Lukas Lohse on Constructing a latent-variable model to fit measurement data: A Stan story, part 1November 13, 2026 7:42 AM
I think you accidentally put the final simulation code after "We set up the parameters for the latent data:" you…
AAAnonymous on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 6:45 AM
"Browse & Wander" with the font style or color depicted in such a way that the "Bro" of "Browse" and…
Jeff on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 6:22 AM
Or Browse + Wander, for that matter.
Anonymous on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 5:18 AM
Can't wait to browse for some jazzy tunes and appreciate the link to Spotify. May I humbly request a link…
AAAnonymous on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 2:45 AM
"Bronder your horizon"
AAAnonymous on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 2:26 AM
Quote from above: "P.P.S. I am hoping “Bronder” becomes a common word like “Zagat,” but as a verb, like “Google.”…
Phil on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 13, 2026 1:38 AM
Steve, Yes, that's the Watson I'm talking about. One of the things I (and others) liked about it was the…
Andrew on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 12, 2026 8:45 PM
Steve: Don't talk to me about limewire. It's so sad what happened to that guy.
Steve Bronder on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 12, 2026 7:51 PM
Do you mean the quick filter at the top of the rest of the pages? Happy to add that to…
Steve Bronder on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 12, 2026 7:45 PM
Thanks for your comment Phil! Is this link below the Watson software [1] you are talking about? The picture on…
Bob Carpenter on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 12, 2026 7:09 PM
Steve's taking feature requests. I hadn't realized that the map didn't respect the "just today" filter, but I agree that…
Phil on Just Bronder it: Steve’s bronder.nyc guide to NYC off(-off)-Broadway, jazz, readings, and galleriesNovember 12, 2026 4:22 PM
Twenty-five years ago or so, a small developer released a computer app called Watson (this was before phone apps) that…

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