Haakon Thue Lie

@htl
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IP management consultant with Dehns.
Adjunct Associate Professor at NTNU , Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management (IØT)
Trade secrets, intellectual property expert, European patent, design and trademark attorney
Married, father to three, grandfather to two, one cat gone to the eternal hunting grounds
Living in Asker outside Oslo, Norway
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Haakon Thue Lie3d ago
Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)3d ago
The best name for a Urologist ever.
Haakon Thue Lie4d ago
Jessica 🦕5d ago

Hot take: if you are asking libraries to "prove their worth," you are completely missing the point.

I'm not saying you can't review analytics and data to see what works and what doesn't. I'm saying the "prove your worth" premise is invalid.

#LibCALM

Haakon Thue LieMay 9
Open Culture (Official)May 9

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language

https://www.openculture.com/2024/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the-english-language-now.html

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language

There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.

Open Culture
Haakon Thue LieMay 4
Fredrik GraverApr 27

On LLMs, language, cultural references, and supressing the horrors of war. A worth-while read from @jilltxt.

“Du må ikke sove”: a floating motif detached from its meaning (or: LLMs can write Norwegian but miss cultural references) – Jill Walker Rettberg https://jilltxt.net/du-ma-ikke-sove-a-floating-motif-detached-from-its-meaning-or-llms-can-write-norwegian-but-miss-cultural-references/

(The original poem in it’s entirety can be found here: https://www.nb.no/items/d7fb96765bfb5f0bef6b1218f5cd7231?page=325)

“Du må ikke sove”: a floating motif detached from its meaning (or: LLMs can write Norwegian but miss cultural references)

There’s a new ad for the train between Stavanger and Oslo in Norway that uses a line from Arnulf Øverland’s famous anti-fascist poem Du må ikke sove (“You must not sleep”). …

Jill Walker Rettberg
Haakon Thue LieMay 4
SchneewittchenApr 25
Haakon Thue LieMay 2
Adam GreenfieldMay 2
Whoever had this sticker made up, I love you.
Haakon Thue LieApr 26
Brent ToderianApr 26
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @[email protected]

Car tyres shed a quarter of al...
Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.

The Conversation
Haakon Thue LieApr 26
Auschwitz MemorialApr 25

25 April 1911 | A Dutch Jewish woman Elisabeth Carolina de Vries-Gersons was born in Tiel.

In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her daughter Rosa Henriette. They were murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Haakon Thue LieApr 22
hallvorsApr 22

Plongvirring: Følelsen når en elektronisk dings varsler deg om en hendelse med lyd, og du ikke skjønner hvilken applikasjon eller nettside lyden kom fra.

#norsktut #nyeord

Haakon Thue LieApr 22
It's 4:20 Somewhere!Apr 22
It's 4:20 p.m. in Pisang, Province 4, Nepal 🇳🇵 (UTC+5:45) 🌏 #its420somewhere