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Was pleasantly surprised to see the exact bug in here, in a "The Register" article of all places. Legg showed that fixing the bug invalidates the research. Seem
by frollogaston 4mo ago
Was pleasantly surprised to see the exact bug in here, in a "The Register" article of all places. Legg showed that fixing the bug invalidates the research. Seems Microsoft is responding to a clear problem with a vague dismissal.
Edit: Oh, The Register is a true tech paper, guess the name makes sense for that. Got mixed up cause there are a bunch of general papers called something Register.
- dekhn 4mo agoThe Register is a tech paper that is modelled on various British tabloids (daily mail, the sun). Sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's real news and occasionally they even break a new story.
- frollogaston 4mo agoHaha, they got me. Was mostly thinking "The Daily Register" which doesn't exist, but Daily Mail does.
- rtkwe 4mo agoI always find it hard to remember which of the British publications are real and which are pure trash. Usually they reveal it pretty quickly with the writing though.
- secretsatan 4mo agoI wouldn’t say it was modeled on that trash, rather they poke fun at them, eg, the term boffin is obviously used tongue in cheeck
- swiftcoder 4mo agoYeah, it's always weird that they write and format the articles like the absolute worst tier of new sites, and then the articles themselves are oftenn very technical
- slipperybeluga 4mo ago[dead]
- pseudohadamard 4mo agoEven without this, the whole thing was snake oil from the start, and this was pointed out by a number of researchers at the time. If you need to invent a new form of physics to make your claims work then there's something very fishy going on.