Comment by altairprime | Hacker News Reader

Comment by altairprime | Hacker News Reader

This content is from 2014-15; perhaps they AI-rehashed the Yahoo! News story about them?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-old-girls-win-google-science-f...

They posted a video summarizing their efforts in 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL9N7O0uJoU

Vice did an interview in 2016:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/these-teenagers-science-proj...

Ciara Judge went on to join the research effort to stop Covid in 2021:

https://ciarajudge.github.io/about

And recently earned her Ph.D publishing GPL3 software:

https://github.com/ciarajudge/EpiFusion

> EpiFusion uses particle filtering to simulate epidemic trajectories over time and weight their likelihood according to both case incidence data and a phylogenetic tree using separate observation models, resulting in the inference of trajectories in agreement with both sets of data.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012528

I've put that older yahoo.com link at the top since it seems to be the original source. Thanks!

(Submitted URL was https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulle... and I think we'll ban that site.)

> This content is from 2014-15; perhaps they AI-rehashed the Yahoo! News story about them?

I went into the article with the HN submissions’s “(2016)” in my head and was shocked that it kept triggering my AI detector senses. It even checks all of the boxes for the phrases like “One honest footnote”. Had me questioning my ability to detect AI writing.

Then I scrolled up and saw that the article linked to was published in 2026. So yes, I’d agree this is an AI rehash and republish of an old story. An interesting story, but the older articles you linked to are so much better to read and more informative than this AI rehash.

We've taken 2016 out of the title now.

Edit: nevermind, let's just swap the link altogether (more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553719).

From their about page

https://scienceblog.com/about-us/

"Every published piece is editorially directed and reviewed before it goes live. We use AI tools in research, drafting, and editing. Editors decide what claims, framing, and pieces make it to publish."

That’s a weasely way of saying it’s AI written but a human kind of looked at it.

Kinda like code reviews these days

Thank you so much for this. Turned an article I was annoyed about (for AI speak) into an amazing story again.

I may not be able to write a proper post for the blue here at the orange, but I’m glad to see it’s enjoyed all the same :)

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