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The author makes this point. "These aren’t immutable aspects of your personality. They’re more categories for how you approach the job of software engineering - you’ll move around …

A person who becomes addicted to opiods, methamphetamine, or other "hard" drugs will with some probability require medical treatment, and and some people who uses those drugs will …

Link to paper here: https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/fulltext/S2451-94...

This is the paper on AOH1996 which a flagged front-page AI-generated story was based on. The title of the paper is "Small molecule targeting of transcription-replication conflict f…

That is not the paper mentioned in the press release, that's a different paper on the drug published in 2018 by the same group. The current paper is here: https://www.cell.com/cell…

That article should be ignored and people ought to read the PR that the research group put out. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/city-of-hope-scient... Edit: Or better yet,…

Agreed, the author on the linked article is listed as an AI, and the article is just an AI mangling of the PR release. The PR release is directly from the group and the link ought …

Well, half the comments are making fun of the spotty quality of the evidence and it's been barely a week since the paper was published. I think it's reasonable to wait for at least…

I mean it's been like 3 weekdays since the preprint was widely noticed. Labs in the U.S. are working on it and will publish. I don't think the difference between publishing a repli…

Dude sometimes scientific progress really does happen, and it's messy when it's happening live, and people get excited about it because they really do find science inherently excit…

In general I'd agree with you, but in this case I think the second group very likely didn't reproduce the first group's material. The measured electrical properties of the two grou…

idk if it turns out this material is a room temperature superconductor, the rushed second paper will have been the right thing to do. Science happening in real time is gonna be mes…

The evidence is all the weird bits about how the paper was published, and other internet comments about the third author's relationship to the group. The authorship of the papers i…

Ooh, please share pre-prints if and when anyone sees one for this group

Scientific collaborations have gotten steadily larger over time. Groups are no longer 3 people exchanging letters, and the 3 person limitation makes no sense.

I just wrote a comment in another thread that's relevant here too. It looks like the first superconductor paper was released by a rouge researcher, without the agreement of the oth…

This comment intrigued me, so I pulled together some information. The first paper submitted is titled "The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor." It lists three a…

Rockets always blow up on the first launch :) It's a machine that's ~95% fuel by mass. Explosion is the default outcome, not exploding is a triumph of engineering.

Not sure about other chat apps, but to connect to imessage they were originally using jailbroken iphones and now use MacOS virtual machines, according to another commentator. So th…

"There is also plenty of fun to be had: ETA Accountability Bot - when I send “I’ll be there in 10” it could follow with an accurate translation: “on average, this means I’ll be the…

3D printing a rocket would be a lot more convincing if it hadn't taken Relativity ~7 years and billions of dollars to make it to a first launch attempt. They'll probably do alright…

This article really frustrated me the last time it was posted, but now I think I have a clear enough idea why to put it into words. You absolutely can tell people things! But to te…