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schmidhubered 

Being "schmidhubered" looks something like this:

1) Invent something brilliant that no one cares about. Experience derision.
2) That thing becomes popular years later. Someone else is given credit for inventing it. That person appears in the New York Times and is declared smartest person alive.
3) Go on a campaign explaining the situation and how you are the rightful inventor and thus the rightful Smartest Person Alive.
4) Everyone accuses you of being a sore loser and no one takes you seriously.
5) A verb is named after you.

The trouble is one cannot really be schmidhubered; they must schmidhuber themselves.
Jeff H invented time travel? No, I invented time travel 15 years ago! But no one believes me! I've been schmidhubered!
schmidhubered by costfunction July 17, 2017
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schmidhuber 

1. To interject for a moment and explain how one's recent popular idea is a few transformations away from your 1991 paper.

2. To miraculously produce fifty years of relevant literature after someone claims to trace the origin of an idea in a particular work.
1. Jan schmidhubered Harry right after his presentation, claiming that he took entire pieces of her project without credit.

2a. If you send in your paper with five references, the PI is going to schmidhuber you.

2b. ...And that's why you can't claim that Tesla was not the originator of electricity1. #schmidhubered

1 Democritus et al., 37th Sunday Demos 460 B.C. Oral.
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to schmidhuber 

When you publicly claim that someone else's idea that is remotely resembling your own is stolen from you.
I invented that already 60 years ago. I'm going to schmidhuber him at the next conference.
to schmidhuber by badfellow July 15, 2021

to schmidhuber 

When you claim that someone else's idea that even remotely resembles your own is stolen from you.
I had that idea already 20 years ago. I'm going to schmidhuber him at the next conference.
to schmidhuber by badfellow July 15, 2021
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