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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by javajosh on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:30PM (#37044187)
If fake those researchers careers are over. Like, they'll have to go into programming or something. And they've also besmirched the good name of Korea, and their moms are going to beat the shit out of them for fucking up that bad. They've got a LOT to lose if this is fake, which is why I think it's most likely true. But hey, sometimes people just do crazy shit.
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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by ldjkfkdsjnv on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:32PM (#37044194)
Impossible, wall street has some of the smartest scientists on the planet. They absolutely went through the research and determined it was a fake. Look at the AI boom, nasdaq rallied 40%. Superconductor would have had the same effect
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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by sottol on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:41PM (#37044247)
squints... can't tell if this is sarcasm. Microstrategy is still trading at like 2x their BTC holdings and so on and so forth, the AI boom is still in-progress and imo the jury is still out on the actual, real-world and $ implications... I think it's sarcasm.
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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by ssa_form on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:39PM (#37044235)
Yes but LK-99 is practically unusable in current form if it's a superconductor. There needs to be a lot more material science research before it can be put into utopian use cases that everyone is dreaming about. Recent AI boom brought a lot more finished products which can be immediately put to use.
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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by r0m4n0 on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:39PM (#37044238)
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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by delabay on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:37PM (#37044228)
Like how the markets caught on to Covid in early February 2020?

China shutting down, drowning in body bags, yet US markets don't flinch.

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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by pie420 on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:46PM (#37044272)
You know how there was a dotcom boom? Well the AI boom is just a repeat. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Save this comment and revist it in 5 years.
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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by zzbn00 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:48AM (#37046213)
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

somewhere I read the a good addition to this:

"and those who do know history are doomed to watch it being repeated"

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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by lessaligned on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:26AM (#37048639)
...nothing happened to the markets ~2017 when the transformer architecture (behind the current AI boom) happened. Nor in 2020 when it was pretty obvious shit scales and generalizes well. ONLY when it got built into an actual product (ChatGPT) did the needle start to move.

Same with this, until someone figures out how to make WIRES from LK-99-like-stuff that can be made into useful MAGNETS, it will stay flat.

Markets may be very smart... but they're hyyyyyper-conservative :P (an it makes sense to be so, there's the $$$ powering agriculture and healthcare and pensions floating on the seas of markets nowadays).

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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by ldjkfkdsjnv on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @10:14AM (#37049264)
Transformers in 2017 basically were just better at computing similarities between blocks of text. OpenAI really did take them and turn them into something new.
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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by lessaligned on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:01AM (#37049996)
"room-temp semiconductors in 2023 were just small blocks of stuff levitating atop magnets without needing to be cooled. XYZ really did manage to produce them into useful shapes that still remain superconductive when you push more than 0.00001 amps through them"
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Re:Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic sam... by squeaky-clean on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:30AM (#37044875)
The paper was leaked by someone fired from the team months prior. The researchers still active were not satisfied with the state of their paper.
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