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ThisIsMyAltFace··on Scientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace
This is sarcasm for anyone wondering
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Steven Soderbergh Says It’s Time to Tear the Streaming Model Down to the Studs
Amazon does exactly this
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99
>I believe she said it wasn't a replication because she had changed the formula. She seemed to have problems with the efficiency of the original formula, which is why I believe she doesn't believe it's replication what she produced may in the end not be LK-99.

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

ThisIsMyAltFace··on Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99
Where did she do this? I haven't found anything in her twitter feed
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99
It wasn't even a replication by their own admission!

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"

ThisIsMyAltFace··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
> I’ll take what you are saying at face value

Given this poster's history, I would not do that

ThisIsMyAltFace··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
It turns out outsourcing all of your manufacturing capability to another country has higher order consequences.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor
I'm not claiming to have made a room temperature superconductor.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor
By their own admission, they've messed with the prep and synthesis stages mentioned in the paper:

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:

https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1686017042665582593#m

ThisIsMyAltFace··on How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]
I always wonder if any of the US intel agencies have reached out to Rainbolt for consulting or recruitment.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Walmart didn’t kill the small town, it is the small town
He's completely missing the point, but I suspect he knows that
ThisIsMyAltFace··on 'First Amendment Auditor' Sues NYPD over Right to Record in Police Stations
Yeah, he was a crack dealer and had a stash in a hidden compartment in the sunroof. The cops let him go because the k9 unit took too long to come.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on U.S. Ambassador to China Hacked in China-Linked Spying Operation
If it is propaganda, it's having the opposite effect on me, because all these hacking stories just make me think that the US doesn't take cybersecurity seriously enough.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text
Because it's Star Trek technology without Star Trek society, and in fact anti-Star Trek society.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of seeing DALL·E /Stable Diffusion posts?
It's a developing situation, like a war or a natural disaster.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
No. This argument comes up over and over and over again and it is wrong.

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.

ThisIsMyAltFace··on Mysterious holes on the seafloor
There's a nice PBS video about them with footage of the holes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1fccY3S84
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Why Do Hipsters Steal Stuff?
how so?
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Don't say we didn't warn you
"Look what you made me do!"
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
> When Webb's mission began, the affected C3 segment had a wavefront error of 56 nanometers rms (root mean square), which was in line with the 17 other mirror portions.

> 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."

ThisIsMyAltFace··on As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
This is just 100% untrue
ThisIsMyAltFace··on As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
TikTok filled the void left by Vine after it was stupidly allowed to die
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Racist videos about Africans fuel a multimillion-dollar Chinese industry
Cheng literally calls Africans savages in one of his videos. It’s still racist despite your whataboutism.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Vision-based AI drones outfly world-class human pilots
Ah, you don't just dislike credentialism, you dislike the credentialed.
ThisIsMyAltFace··on A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless
to stay home in order to avoid infecting other people?
ThisIsMyAltFace··on Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person
People who like to tell "Harsh Truths" do it because they like to be harsh, they don't really care about the truth.