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I'm following this fellow: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip Seems to have the right energy [edit thanks folks] https://nit

I'm following this fellow: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip Seems to have the right energy [edit thanks folks] https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944 https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944 Here’s a more colorful play by play as well: https://nitter.net/8teapi/status/1684586672917565443 https://nitter.net/8teapi/status/1684586672917565443

ericbarrett 3y ago
Can you summarize his position? Can't see X posts without a login.
- RC_ITR 3y ago
  He’s just some guy at an aerospace startup who is trying to make some lol. Problem with his approach is that the synthesis requires some materials that are restricted to academic/scientific labs (like red phosphorus), so he’s probably not going to be first to replicate.
  - aardvarkr 3y ago
    Looks like he found a lab willing to hook him up. https://twitter.com/thedanaddison/status/1684587778959618048?s=46&t=pFHe20zOOKvcKxtZMrcxBg https://twitter.com/thedanaddison/status/1684587778959618048...
- otherjason 3y ago
  You can see the full thread via alternative Twitter clients like Nitter: https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944 https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944
mikenew 3y ago
Is this guy posting anywhere besides Twitter (or... X)? I can't view without an account.
- MayeulC 3y ago
  You can use the nitter frontend: https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip
- psychoslave 3y ago
  LOL they really renamed it X? I see they even bought x.com which surely they paid some ridiculous amount for, and yet they wasn’t able to spend any cent on original logo, at least X.org logo as an orange O.
  - Mockapapella 3y ago
    Elon has personally owned x.com for a number of years now. Timeline as I remember it is Elon bought it in the late 90's, it changed hands when paypal merged with Elon's payment company, then he bought it back in 2017ish
    - psychoslave 3y ago
      Still make me laugh. I doubt the 2017 transfer costed $10. Let’s just recall all the more that domains are never really own, and that seems all the more crazy to my mind. Though I guess that when you let single individuals able to claim indefinitely large amount of ownership, that’s unavoidable waste of resources.
      - yreg 3y ago
        Buying x.com domain name is the last thing I would critisize on elon.
        psychoslave 3y ago
        I don’t criticize any individual for simply implementing what the social structure lead them to do. That is, my messages were not meant into "name and shame" any specific person. That’s really the overall social game that I found laughable.
  - 3y ago
AndrewKemendo 3y ago
This is amazing thank you for the link. Absolutely wild time to be alive
scarmig 3y ago
I love the colorful play-by-play. It could almost be a kdrama. It's also kind of crazy that one of the authors did over 1000 experiments until he found LK-99, regardless of whether it checks out. Talk about a grind mindset.
- techdragon 3y ago
  Material science can be like that … you’re pretty sure your theory works and your results don’t wildly invalidate it, but they aren’t good enough or are missing a property or something… and it turns out you could very easily have made a bad batch, poorly aligned fibers, badly mixed epoxy, or any number of possible issues… so you try again and again to get it right… sometimes it’s for very little incremental progress in state of the art… other times it might be a Nobel prize winning superconductor.
  - scarmig 3y ago
    In undergrad, I spent countless hours with a mortar and pestle, sintering, and annealing to research a particular superconductor, never getting much sleep because I had to wake up every couple hours to make sure nothing had gone awry... It tickles me that they were doing the same thing. Hoping that they get the big win here, for all of our sakes.
    - fizx 3y ago
      Yup. Also tickles me that I might have had better equipment than this team, though we still had to source sample carriers from McDonalds. The multi-million-dollar measurement apparatus required us to put samples in disposable tubes that cost about a dollar each. They turned out to have the exact same physical properties as a McDonalds straw, so once a week someone made a food run and grabbed a handful on the way out.
      - scarmig 3y ago
        For the SQUID? Now that brings back even more memories. We got ours from the dining halls.
ncann 3y ago
So the authors are disciples of a professor specialized in superconductor, their own Master and PhD were about superconductor, then they created a lab/company specifically for researching superconductor. This is contrary to my earlier belief that they were just normal chemists/physicists that happened to stumble upon an interesting material. Unless they're lying through their teeth, it's hard to believe they would not recognize an actual SC when they see one.
- lamontcg 3y ago
  https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1684571913908293633 https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1684571913908293633 Lee was stuck as an adjunct professor for 19 years. Kim thinks that physicists all have their head up their ass and he knows the shortcut to discovering superconductivity. And nature wouldn't publish their paper. Combined with their inability to accurately measure Tc and a lot of skepticism already out there that their graphs show what they say they do this looks like poor science. Which is not to accuse them of lying. It looks like they're just not very good, but think they're geniuses.
  - saberdancer 3y ago
    And what of Kwon and HT Kim?
  - 11101010001100 3y ago
    He didn't say anything about a shortcut. He said trial and error.
  - sudosysgen 3y ago
    That graphic isn't saying there's a shortcut, it's basically saying that physicists need to work harder and try many many many many more materials than they do. Not quite trial and error since the classes of materials should be informed by some theory, but far more - multiple thousands per individual.
    - bluerooibos 3y ago
Natsu 3y ago
It's amazing to think that this might be replicated using equipment they put googly eyes on and named "Sucky McSuckface." I look forward to this historical footnote leading to many clickbait articles in the future.

ericbarrett 3y ago

Can you summarize his position? Can't see X posts without a login.

RC_ITR 3y ago
He’s just some guy at an aerospace startup who is trying to make some lol. Problem with his approach is that the synthesis requires some materials that are restricted to academic/scientific labs (like red phosphorus), so he’s probably not going to be first to replicate.
- aardvarkr 3y ago
  Looks like he found a lab willing to hook him up. https://twitter.com/thedanaddison/status/1684587778959618048?s=46&t=pFHe20zOOKvcKxtZMrcxBg https://twitter.com/thedanaddison/status/1684587778959618048...
otherjason 3y ago
You can see the full thread via alternative Twitter clients like Nitter: https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944 https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944

mikenew 3y ago

Is this guy posting anywhere besides Twitter (or... X)? I can't view without an account.

MayeulC 3y ago
You can use the nitter frontend: https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip
psychoslave 3y ago
LOL they really renamed it X? I see they even bought x.com which surely they paid some ridiculous amount for, and yet they wasn’t able to spend any cent on original logo, at least X.org logo as an orange O.
- Mockapapella 3y ago
  Elon has personally owned x.com for a number of years now. Timeline as I remember it is Elon bought it in the late 90's, it changed hands when paypal merged with Elon's payment company, then he bought it back in 2017ish
  - psychoslave 3y ago
    Still make me laugh. I doubt the 2017 transfer costed $10. Let’s just recall all the more that domains are never really own, and that seems all the more crazy to my mind. Though I guess that when you let single individuals able to claim indefinitely large amount of ownership, that’s unavoidable waste of resources.
    - yreg 3y ago
      Buying x.com domain name is the last thing I would critisize on elon.
      - psychoslave 3y ago
        I don’t criticize any individual for simply implementing what the social structure lead them to do. That is, my messages were not meant into "name and shame" any specific person. That’s really the overall social game that I found laughable.
- 3y ago

AndrewKemendo 3y ago

This is amazing thank you for the link. Absolutely wild time to be alive

scarmig 3y ago

I love the colorful play-by-play. It could almost be a kdrama. It's also kind of crazy that one of the authors did over 1000 experiments until he found LK-99, regardless of whether it checks out. Talk about a grind mindset.

techdragon 3y ago
Material science can be like that … you’re pretty sure your theory works and your results don’t wildly invalidate it, but they aren’t good enough or are missing a property or something… and it turns out you could very easily have made a bad batch, poorly aligned fibers, badly mixed epoxy, or any number of possible issues… so you try again and again to get it right… sometimes it’s for very little incremental progress in state of the art… other times it might be a Nobel prize winning superconductor.
- scarmig 3y ago
  In undergrad, I spent countless hours with a mortar and pestle, sintering, and annealing to research a particular superconductor, never getting much sleep because I had to wake up every couple hours to make sure nothing had gone awry... It tickles me that they were doing the same thing. Hoping that they get the big win here, for all of our sakes.
  - fizx 3y ago
    Yup. Also tickles me that I might have had better equipment than this team, though we still had to source sample carriers from McDonalds. The multi-million-dollar measurement apparatus required us to put samples in disposable tubes that cost about a dollar each. They turned out to have the exact same physical properties as a McDonalds straw, so once a week someone made a food run and grabbed a handful on the way out.
    - scarmig 3y ago
      For the SQUID? Now that brings back even more memories. We got ours from the dining halls.

ncann 3y ago

So the authors are disciples of a professor specialized in superconductor, their own Master and PhD were about superconductor, then they created a lab/company specifically for researching superconductor. This is contrary to my earlier belief that they were just normal chemists/physicists that happened to stumble upon an interesting material. Unless they're lying through their teeth, it's hard to believe they would not recognize an actual SC when they see one.

lamontcg 3y ago
https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1684571913908293633 https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1684571913908293633 Lee was stuck as an adjunct professor for 19 years. Kim thinks that physicists all have their head up their ass and he knows the shortcut to discovering superconductivity. And nature wouldn't publish their paper. Combined with their inability to accurately measure Tc and a lot of skepticism already out there that their graphs show what they say they do this looks like poor science. Which is not to accuse them of lying. It looks like they're just not very good, but think they're geniuses.
- saberdancer 3y ago
  And what of Kwon and HT Kim?
- 11101010001100 3y ago
  He didn't say anything about a shortcut. He said trial and error.
- sudosysgen 3y ago
  That graphic isn't saying there's a shortcut, it's basically saying that physicists need to work harder and try many many many many more materials than they do. Not quite trial and error since the classes of materials should be informed by some theory, but far more - multiple thousands per individual.
  - bluerooibos 3y ago

Natsu 3y ago

It's amazing to think that this might be replicated using equipment they put googly eyes on and named "Sucky McSuckface." I look forward to this historical footnote leading to many clickbait articles in the future.