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When ChatGPT writes your ad copy.

Seems a bit deceiving then, nobody does matrix multiplications in "pure python." They use numpy or some derivative of it.

Does “90,000x speed up over pure python” with matrix multiplication mean vs using numpy arrays in python?

None of that changes the fact that this is marketing for their product. Many similar posts have made the front page of HN recently and it’s getting a bit formulaic. It’s great that you like some of them, but are you ok with HN just being a bunch of covert marketing copy?

Concerned about the number of lightweight marketing blog posts making it to the front page of HN. It’s like it’s part of the “marketing to devs” playbook at this point.

Low effort post. An AI probably wrote it because it’s full of meaningless platitudes.

How do you get the chatbot to tell the truth more? I’m a scientist and this is my biggest showstopper with AI tools. I just can’t know if I can trust what it’s telling me.

I read the page but I still don't know anything about the site, or what it does differently.

That's a broad claim, you have to prove your case. You're asking for a ban on vertical integration as a business strategy.

We do have those. It sounds more like you're saying that we shouldn't have vertically integrated companies.

Life doesn’t revolve around the search for life- there are interesting things to learn from such planets even if those planets cannot host alien life.

Creationism, but with a science-y spin this time.

I think, functionally, you have a point, but they wouldn’t sell nearly as many if it looked like a helmet. The devices have to be cool to sell, and headsets are uncool enough as it is.

These companies want a mass market product, not a niche product that only tech enthusiasts can appreciate.

There’s an image of Europa from Webb in the article.

Optical engineer here. For anyone not in the field, “photonics” is a fancy academic term for optical systems that involve waveguide structures. You can do some neat things with waveguides that you can’t do with more traditional optics like lenses, prisms and mirrors.

I think the paper’s title is a bit sensationalist (a callout to extraterrestrial life in an optics paper? Really?) but it’s basically talking about how these devices can help improve spectroscopy and imaging, which are the only two tools astronomers have.

> I use AI in my writing all the time,

What do you think is the end game here? Do you expect people to read content that you couldn't be bothered to write?

What if users start using AI to summarize the AI generated text? What's the point of all this?

Sounds like you're doing something too sophisticated for Excel.

I’m not a cold fusion expert but my understanding of it is that it quite grossly violates the first law at least. If the first law is out, thermodynamics as we know it is wrong.

A bit harsh don’t you think?

LK-99 was plausibly a high T superconductor candidate, and high T superconductors are a real thing that exist. It is worth attempting to replicate.

Cold fusion says “all of thermodynamics is wrong”. A much bigger claim…

> Not sure that AI chat bots are actually reasoning in any basic way, so much as they are filtering out noise and presenting an output that might satisfy the input

Not sure if there is a difference, for sufficiently abstract interpretations of “satisfy the input”

1) doesn't make a whole lot of sense. A perfect understanding of something doesn't mean you can fix anything wrong with it.

3) has already happened. The AI chat bots aren't very smart, but they're clearly capable of some degree of basic reasoning.

How should we produce the muons?

Well put.

Strange headline. Compiled languages can't compete for scientific computing except as an engine language for some calculator (a ray tracer, a finite element solver, etc). Model setup and analysis will always be done in some kind of interactive scripting language, and these days it will be done in a notebook interface. So you're right back at the two language problem.

Well yes, you need to make a new type of display. It’s not a software technique to be applied to existing displays.

We found that our product was accidentally very useful and are taking it down while we fix this.

Much ado about nothing. Hiding 2pi behind an abstraction layer just makes things harder to debug later.

Sure but Hacker News in 2015 isn’t on the scale of 2023 Reddit, and isn’t being pitched as an alternative to 2023 Reddit…

The top post on the most well known Lemmy instance (Lemmy.ml) is an announcement from the server admin that Lemmy.ml is now running on a dedicated machine, with 6 cores and 32 gb ram.

Good for them, but this is supposed to be the Reddit replacement? A forum that was, until recently, just running on some guy’s computer? I know there are other instances but are there any serious ones?

The main problem with the protest is that there’s no viable Reddit replacement. Back during the Digg fiasco, it was easy for everyone to jump ship to Reddit.