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I am somewhat skeptical of this. First, the headline result of 0.7*sigma improvement is the output of a statistical based on lessons/reviews they engaged with and their mid-term sc…

While I echo some of your points, [1] is bad example (as a Canadian). Research money in Canada is harder to come by; a basic research grant is roughly ~5x-10x lower than a comparab…

Also a physicist here -- I had the same reaction. Going from (35-38) to (39) doesn't look like much of a leap for a human. They say (35-38) was obtained from the full result by the…

Thanks! (very quickly too)

Is anyone else having trouble using even some of the basic features? For example, I can open a comment, but it doesn't seem like there is any way to close them (I try clicking the …

In my circles the killer features of Overleaf are the collaborative ones (easy sharing, multi-user editing with track changes/comments). Academic writing in my community basically …

Seems like the someone dug something up from the literature on this problem (see top comment on the erdosproblems.com thread) "On following the references, it seems that the result…

This is a comparison between a new and interactive medium (+ slides, mind-maps, etc) and a static PDF book as a control. How do we know that a non-AI based interactive book wouldn'…

Thank you for this comment, it is exactly my impression of all of this as well.

It happens again in the next video. It says: > The team came up with a use case the teaching team hadn’t thought of – using AI to critique the team’s own hypotheses. The AI not onl…

At one point this states: > Claude was also able to create a list of leaders with the Department of Energy Title17 credit programs, Exim DFC, and other federal credit programs that…

I'm not the person you're replying to, but in my subfield (scientist is such a broad term) I would say in my opinion at least half of those key problems that are listed in the arti…

And in many subfields there is a preprint freely available on the arxiv during those three months.

OpenAI o4-mini-high I’m actually not finding any officially named “Marathon Crater” in the planetary‐ or terrestrial‐impact crater databases. Did you perhaps mean the features in M…

Small correction: The meow meow beans episode of Community aired in 2014 and the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror aired 2016. So the Community episode came first.

Most of their categories have straightforward interpretations in terms of students using the tool to cheat. They don't seem to want to/care to analyze that further and determine wh…

I think this comment is significantly more dismissive of science and scientists than the original comment was of AI.

Some hard problems have remain unsolved in basically every field of human interest for decades/centuries/millennia -- despite the number of intelligent people and/or resources that…

The data set quality seems a really spotty based on looking a few random problems (I looked at about a dozen in the "Physics" subcategory). Several problems had no clear question (…

There are caveats there too. Generally topological qubits can be immune to all kinds of noise (i.e. built-in error correction) but Majorana zero modes aren't exact the right kind o…

It's a topological superconductor.

If you read the referee reports of the Nature paper (they are published alongside it) you'll see some referees echoing similar points.

I understand the claim and what they are trying to do (and they've been trying to do it for 20 years now). It's an interesting approach and it is orthogonal enough from other effor…

The ideas that underpin their device have been around for some time and aren't called by that name in the literature -- it appears to be entirely a branding exercise. A clear signa…

A few things to keep in mind, given how hard of a media push this is being given (which should immediately set off alarm bells in your head that this might be bullshit) - Topologic…