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fraud-detection

32 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 16 claims, 3 observations, 4 questions, 7 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  The noise is the evidence
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · epistemology, research-integrity, fraud-detection, cross-domain-bridge, statistics

Everything else

• A 2013 'coin-size estimation' study was retracted after Simonsohn's forensics found its per-condition values too similar across experiments to be random samples (p<.000025)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, statistics, data-colada, replication
• Verify the three primary sources behind the 'suspicious perfection' cluster: Fisher (1936) on Mendel, Maimonides on Sanhedrin unanimity, and Simonsohn's fabrication forensics
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-01 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, statistics, legal-history, history-of-science
• Too clean to be real — a room-temperature-superconductivity claim unmade by forensic reading of the published data, not by failed replication
  topic map 2026-08-14 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• Verify Hirsch's forensic critique, the 'data alteration and manipulation' quote, and the Sept 2022 Nature retraction of Dias's room-temperature superconductivity paper against primaries
  capture promoted 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• Hirsch's arXiv trouble was two distinct events: administrators withdrew his CSH-fraud paper in December 2021, and he was separately banned from posting in February 2022
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Hirsch modeled his CSH-fraud critique on a 2009 Debessai et al. europium paper he argues is a confirmed precedent case of data alteration
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Hirsch and van der Marel's 2022 technical analysis concludes CSH's reported susceptibility data are a smoothly-varying spline plus a quantized artifact, not a genuine background subtraction
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Nature's 2022 retraction notice for the Dias carbonaceous-sulfur-hydride paper cites an undisclosed, non-standard background-subtraction procedure
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Do FICO's neural-network models actually score a majority of the world's card transactions — and what is the primary source for that figure?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, neural-networks, sec-filing
• What is the actual model architecture of HNC's Falcon Fraud Manager — is it specifically a supervised backpropagation feedforward network?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• FICO's FY2008 Form 10-K describes Falcon Fraud Manager's mechanism as neural network predictive models built on patented transaction-profiling technology
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, neural-networks, sec-filing
• FICO's FY2008 Form 10-K states Falcon Fraud Manager was used in approximately 65% of all credit card transactions worldwide
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, sec-filing, sourcing
• Every located instance of FICO's 'majority of world card transactions' figure traces back to FICO's own self-reported statistics, with no independent audit found
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, sourcing, verification
• FICO's own 'roughly two-thirds' reach figure has been restated with different denominators — transactions in 2008, accounts in 2021
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, sourcing, verification
• HNC's founding 1992 Falcon patent names its network architecture as "feed forward"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• HNC's founding 1992 Falcon patent specifies backpropagation gradient descent as a supervised training method
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• HNC's founding Falcon patent describes a multilayer network, not a single-layer perceptron
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• US Patent 5,819,226 is confirmed as HNC's own founding patent for Falcon Fraud Manager, not an unrelated filing
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, patents
• R. A. Fisher's 1936 statistical re-analysis found Mendel's pea-ratio data fit the expected 3:1 ratio implausibly closely
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, statistics, history-of-science, mendel
• Uri Simonsohn's data-forensics method flags fabricated research data via 'excessive similarity' inconsistent with random sampling
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, statistics, data-colada, replication
• The vault's cosine-0.75 tie between HNC's Falcon and the 1995 Helmholtz Machine is an embedding false friend — same word 'inference,' discriminative scoring vs. generative cause-modeling
  observation seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · connectionism, deep-learning-history, fraud-detection, generative-models, discriminative-models
• Evidential weight rests on independence — and its absence, appearing as excessive perfection, is itself a signature of defect
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · epistemology, research-integrity, fraud-detection, legal-history, statistics
• What is the actual model architecture of HNC's Falcon Fraud Manager — is it specifically a supervised backpropagation feedforward network?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• Verify the three primary sources behind the 'suspicious perfection' cluster: Fisher (1936) on Mendel, Maimonides on Sanhedrin unanimity, and Simonsohn's fabrication forensics
  question answered 2026-07-12 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, legal-history, statistics, verification
• Falcon and the Helmholtz Machine are embedding neighbors split by the discriminative/generative divide — same word 'inference,' opposite computation
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · connectionism, deep-learning-history, fraud-detection, generative-models, discriminative-models
• Suspicious perfection: the same 'too clean to be true' rule underwrites both legal graded-proof and statistical fraud forensics
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · epistemology, research-integrity, fraud-detection, legal-history, statistics
• The h-index inventor became science's fraud-hunting forensic mathematician
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, bibliometrics, research-integrity, physics, fraud-detection
• Jorge Hirsch, the h-index's inventor, used data-pattern forensics to help force the retraction of Ranga Dias's room-temperature superconductivity claim
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• HNC Software's 1992 Falcon Fraud Manager became the seed of FICO's card-fraud scoring infrastructure
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · connectionism, ai-winter, hnc, fico, fraud-detection
• Do FICO's neural-network models actually score a majority of the world's card transactions — and what is the primary source for that figure?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · fico, hnc, fraud-detection, neural-networks, unverified-quant
• Verify Hirsch's forensic critique, the 'data alteration and manipulation' quote, and the Sept 2022 Nature retraction of Dias's room-temperature superconductivity paper against primaries
  question open 2026-07-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch