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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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