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> As a result, producers need a way to rapidly explore and validate new formulations without spending months in the lab. How do you bypass the normal process o
by kevin_thibedeau 7mo ago
> As a result, producers need a way to rapidly explore and validate new formulations without spending months in the lab.
How do you bypass the normal process of pouring test articles and testing them months and years after cure? This is fundamentally a research activity that needs to conduct verifiable science. Not something you can guess at with an LLM.
- bluedino 7mo agoAll the chemical companies do it. They pair it with testing, but still.
- tartoran 7mo agoThey have a new scapegoat to blame if things turn out badly.
- plagiarist 7mo agoWhy do they need AI for that? Just create another LLC, manslaughter any number of people, then have that LLC declare bankruptcy. Zero consequences.
- parliament32 7mo agoEmitting a shrug and "AI made me do it" is cheaper.
- postexitus 7mo agoWhat part of move fast and break things did you not understand?
- ortusdux 7mo agoWhat could possibly go wrong? https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/rubber-used-in-undersea-tunnels-decay-fast/ https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/rubber-used-in-undersea-tunn...
- simianwords 7mo agoIt doesn't use an LLM
- sebastianeament 7mo agoHi, I developed the model. We are not bypassing the regular testing process, and are not using LLMs, but Gaussian processes with vetted test data. The predictions are used as recommendations for onsite testing, to accelerate finding mixtures with optimal strength-speed-sustainability trade-offs.
- Isamu 7mo agoThat’s helpful. So instead of a much larger test matrix you are using a model to reduce that to the most likely candidates, right?
- sebastianeament 7mo agoThat's right.
- camillomiller 7mo ago[flagged]
- woah 7mo agoSomebody needs to coin a new term for the scattershot zero-thought AI griping that is pervasive in online comments these days. Meatslop? Obviously it's going to be more productive for a manufacturer to do a years-long curing test on 100 likely candidates instead of 100 random mixes. They obviously already screen candidates through traditional methods, but if this AI technique improves accuracy, all the better.
- dcre 7mo agoI call it pseudo-critique — active stupidity in the name of critical thinking — but that’s too general.
- mathisfun123 7mo agohttps://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/ https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/
- mathisfun123 7mo agohn discourse is not nearly as high-quality as people would like to believe.
- rootusrootus 7mo agoIt’s very bimodal.
- mathisfun123 7mo agojust like everywhere else? reddit has fairly good wheat among the chaff just the same?
- rootusrootus 7mo agoReddit's top contributors are decent, but there is an elite niche of people (granted, mostly of the technical variety) who somewhat regularly show up on HN but do not contribute much on Reddit. It does help, of course, that HN is moderated in good faith and has a more pervasive commitment to self-moderation than Reddit has ever had (outside a few very niche subreddits).