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by lamontcg 3y ago
And people absolutely proved that their ability to read scientific claims in isolation and make an educated guess how much weight to give them is really bad.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Meteors smaller than 25m burn up in the Earth's atmosphere: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/overview/fastfa...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
So is this a scheme to pump reddit $$$ from their upcoming IPO into eth gas fees?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> However, neither diamagnetic levitation nor zero resistance was observed in any of our LK-99 samples. In the synthesized samples, we found few very small pieces of materials, either black or pink appearance under optical microscope, wi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> There have been multiple videos of tiny LK99 specs completely levitating on single magnets, and resisting motion when pushed, and staying afloat when the magnet is inverted. One of those has already been admitted to being outright fak
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It is the National Library of Medicine, which is a database maintained by NIH. The journal this article is from is from is Cureus: https://www.cureus.com/ Their tagline seems to be "publishing beyond open access"
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Hyun-Tak Kim is unlikely to ruin his career and legacy for something careless and frivolous. Everyone is suddenly an expert in HT Kim's character who didn't have any idea who he was a month ago. And this definitely is a sort
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The preprint from earlier showing that LK99 is not superconductive and the 'half-levitating' samples have regions of soft-ferromagnetism and diamagnetism and shows a semiconductive temperature-resistance curve: https://
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Well it looks like I'm right and LK99 is ferromagnetic and not superconductive. And the paper that shows it looks a lot more like I'd expect good science to look: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110 Difference b
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Strong language doesn't usually correlate with qualification. I never asserted the converse. Pointing out that strong, biased language can be associated with expertise and therefore in isolation has no bearing on truth, isn't
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Being an expert and being biased on purpose implies acting in bad faith. That doesn't even make any sense to me. Like I don't know what to say because I can't understand what you could possibly be trying to say. It sou
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Muon catalyzed cold nuclear fusion is a thing. You're going to pour more energy into creating the muons than you get out though. It doesn't violate thermodynamics, you're just using some kind of catalytic process to get pas
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by lamontcg 3y ago
That is sort of nonsensical. Being ignorant and biased is a lot worse than actually knowing what you're talking about.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
They're citing a study from the International Center for Quantum Materials at Peking University in Beijing (which has several Alumni from the Condensed Matter Theory Center at U of Maryland which is the twitter account) which goes into
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I feel like such strong statements should directly reference strong evidence. They did link the strong evidence upthread: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110 > To conclude, we have observed a semiconductor-like, n
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I thought LK-99 looked like bullshit from the start, but the conclusions of this preprint should really be confirmed and there's still a lot they don't understand about the behavior of the sample that should get more fully explain
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I shit on my carpet, not in my toilet, because its a free country and you can't tell me not to!
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Do you still wear a mask? You probably don't, Flew on a plane earlier this year and I definitely did. Also always still wear masks in actual healthcare settings or wherever else that I'm asked. Asking for proof of efficacy in
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If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose(slate.com)
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by lamontcg 3y ago
skyscrapers standing empty? zombie economy based on cheap debt? good thing the US doesn't have any of that.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> DnD has a lot of brand power and has been strongly in the zeitgeist for years. I'd say you're understating this and it is actually strengthening a lot. For example google trends shows "dnd" taking off: https:/
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> played the hell out of the Ultima series though! this is Wizardry III erasure. (i'm a bit older and solidly GenX)
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Don't type your master password on zoom calls
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by lamontcg 3y ago
now that's a name i've not heard in a long time... a long time...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Let’s call this Joel’s Law. A lot of things follow from this premise. Why do most developers think the code they inherited is a mess and want to throw it out and start again? It’s because writing something new is cognitively less deman
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by lamontcg 3y ago
And apparently I'm the one that hates science here because I think the side-show around LK-99 is ridiculous.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I was just about out of my free searches on Kagi before I ever realized it could do this. That feature converted me to a paying user (although I've got browser plugins to block domains from Google search, but boosting is something I c
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> finding things we already knew. we didn't know that before it was published. we could have been sitting around now talking about breaking new experimental results from LHCb that call into question the standard model, you have to a
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'd rewrite code to make it simpler and easier to hold in one's head, not just to make it pleasing from some aesthetic viewpoint.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Watching the process happen in real time is fun and exciting. YOU ARE NOT WATCHING THE PROCESS. The people who have spent their lives on superconductors and who have the expertise to replicate and conclusively evaluate these claims so

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