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Could be a skill issue on the part of the replicators? The russian anime girl scientist had to make a bunch of modifications (and was cursing the orig authors)

Could be a skill issue on the part of the replicators? The russian anime girl scientist had to make a bunch of modifications (and was cursing the orig authors) before she could make her rocks float.

raincole 3y ago
Is there any reason to treat Iris_IGB seriously? (genuine question)
jeron 3y ago
>The russian anime girl scientist had to make a bunch of modifications (and was cursing the orig authors) before she could make her rocks float. link?
- bestcoder69 3y ago
  https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685322871306928128 https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685322871306928128
  - mrguyorama 3y ago
    >emerges for engineering conductivity pili of bacteria into the superconductors of this class. What...
TaylorAlexander 3y ago
Was that fiction? I saw someone mention that the Russian anime girl scientist was fiction.
- bestcoder69 3y ago
  Maybe thinking of this? https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1686174330793660416 https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1686174330793660416
- carabiner 3y ago
  @8teAPi = Random guy writing Sorkinesque fanfiction about this whole saga. @iris_IGB = Random Russian anime girl scientist who synth'd in her apartment kitchen.
  - TaylorAlexander 3y ago
    Ooh okay thanks. I learned about iris from @8teAPi so I wasn’t sure if both were fake or what.
danbruc 3y ago
Of course under the assumption that LK-99 is indeed not what has been claimed, I am not completely ruling out that they just failed to reproduce the material. And while I initially said that the LK-99 paper does at least not look like a crackpot paper [1][2] and still think that was not an unreasonable judgment given my complete lack of expertise in the field, just comparing the presentation in this paper and the original LK-99 paper makes me judge the replicators as more competent. But sure, looks can be deceptive. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865636 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871103
PBnFlash 3y ago
I find that Twitter account to be pretty dubious.
supriyo-biswas 3y ago
Honestly I found their account dubious, it’s difficult to believe that a person with a background in molecular biology to have synthesized it especially given that other groups have failed to do so. There are also no affiliations mentioned on their profile.
- XorNot 3y ago
  Falls into the bucket of "specialists can have weird hobbies" element though - i.e. the background to do this is basically "has access to lead oxide, copper and red phosphorous" and "a kiln" - particularly if you dispense with trying to do the vacuum synthesis as that account claimed too (also a point in favor: having random access to dangerous chemicals is sort of something I'd expect out of states with less enforcement of drug synthesis laws). The mechanism is plausible - if the reaction actually proceeds by driving off the sulfate and substituting in the copper at high temperature, it's entirely possible the vacuum synthesis of the authors is unnecessary (I have in fact had personal experience with trying to replicate a paper where it turned out that a pretty important step was acting as an oxygen-diffusion rate-limiter, and this just...wasn't identified at all by the papers authors).
numpad0 3y ago
a nitpick - I think it's more likely that person is he/him. anime is gender and masculinity averse/avoidant so everyone/everything is depicted in girly tone, else they don't exist
- sp332 3y ago
  Her name is Iris and she’s lesbian.
- hatsunearu 3y ago
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Could be a skill issue on the part of the replicators? The russian anime girl scientist had to make a bunch of modifications (and was cursing the orig authors) before she could make her rocks float.

raincole 3y ago

Is there any reason to treat Iris_IGB seriously? (genuine question)

jeron 3y ago

>The russian anime girl scientist had to make a bunch of modifications (and was cursing the orig authors) before she could make her rocks float. link?

bestcoder69 3y ago
https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685322871306928128 https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685322871306928128
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  >emerges for engineering conductivity pili of bacteria into the superconductors of this class. What...

TaylorAlexander 3y ago

Was that fiction? I saw someone mention that the Russian anime girl scientist was fiction.

bestcoder69 3y ago
Maybe thinking of this? https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1686174330793660416 https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1686174330793660416
carabiner 3y ago
@8teAPi = Random guy writing Sorkinesque fanfiction about this whole saga. @iris_IGB = Random Russian anime girl scientist who synth'd in her apartment kitchen.
- TaylorAlexander 3y ago
  Ooh okay thanks. I learned about iris from @8teAPi so I wasn’t sure if both were fake or what.

danbruc 3y ago

Of course under the assumption that LK-99 is indeed not what has been claimed, I am not completely ruling out that they just failed to reproduce the material. And while I initially said that the LK-99 paper does at least not look like a crackpot paper [1][2] and still think that was not an unreasonable judgment given my complete lack of expertise in the field, just comparing the presentation in this paper and the original LK-99 paper makes me judge the replicators as more competent. But sure, looks can be deceptive. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865636 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871103

PBnFlash 3y ago

I find that Twitter account to be pretty dubious.

supriyo-biswas 3y ago

Honestly I found their account dubious, it’s difficult to believe that a person with a background in molecular biology to have synthesized it especially given that other groups have failed to do so. There are also no affiliations mentioned on their profile.

XorNot 3y ago
Falls into the bucket of "specialists can have weird hobbies" element though - i.e. the background to do this is basically "has access to lead oxide, copper and red phosphorous" and "a kiln" - particularly if you dispense with trying to do the vacuum synthesis as that account claimed too (also a point in favor: having random access to dangerous chemicals is sort of something I'd expect out of states with less enforcement of drug synthesis laws). The mechanism is plausible - if the reaction actually proceeds by driving off the sulfate and substituting in the copper at high temperature, it's entirely possible the vacuum synthesis of the authors is unnecessary (I have in fact had personal experience with trying to replicate a paper where it turned out that a pretty important step was acting as an oxygen-diffusion rate-limiter, and this just...wasn't identified at all by the papers authors).

numpad0 3y ago

a nitpick - I think it's more likely that person is he/him. anime is gender and masculinity averse/avoidant so everyone/everything is depicted in girly tone, else they don't exist

sp332 3y ago
Her name is Iris and she’s lesbian.
hatsunearu 3y ago
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