127 karma · joined April 28, 2022
Yes, it isn't replication, and the only proof that her modified substance does anything interesting is a photo of a single grain suspended inside a small tube. She hasn't written anything clarifying the process from her vague twitter thread, she hasn't posted a video showing the sample's behavior (which would be better than nothing), she hasn't shown any measurements, and when people ask for these things, she gives unconvincing excuses.
And yet every thread is full of people saying she was the first to replicate. The USSR tweets are a little eyerolling but not the main issue
https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1685774956330635264#m
They won't publish a preprint on their version because they think it would be "unfair"!
https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1687020011548770304#m
Every post this person makes throws up more red flags. I have no idea why people believe any of their claims besides "haha anime girl"
Given this poster's history, I would not do that
https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1685774956330635264#m
Also, forgive me for taking this person's word with a massive grain of salt when they post stuff like this:
These models are not learning or being inspired in the same sense humans are. The laws tgat apply to humans should not be applied to them.
> Post-impact, however, the error increased to 258 nm rms, but realignments to the mirror segments as a whole reduced the overall impact to just 59 nm rms. For the time being, the team wrote Webb's alignment is well within performance limits, as the realigned mirror segments are "about 5-10 nm rms above the previous best wavefront error rms values."