Avoiding the temptation to start an everylot bot for Indianapolis, or to try to figure out the rate of patenting by city size over time
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I always wanted to graph patent applications over time to see if "a good idea whose time has come" is a real thing
It's been studied - I seem to recall Dean Keith Simonton wrote a book (?) about it. Anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery …
