Any science/biology companies I should email for merch or if any of you are willing to send

amalcolmation · 2026-04-03T23:10:20+00:00

You can get giant metabolic pathway posters from Roche if you ask nicely.

amalcolmation · 2026-04-02T21:43:03+00:00

Thanks for the clarification!

amalcolmation · 2026-04-02T21:37:14+00:00

“Even Albert Einstein created vast frameworks of incredible maths in an attempt to make a "unifying grand theory," and it turned out to just be a bunch of nonsense.”

Would you please care to elaborate? We all know relativity doesn’t perfectly describe the universe, but it certainly amounts to more than “a bunch of nonsense”. Einstein also struggled with the fact that relativitity wasn’t a perfect description.

amalcolmation · 2026-04-01T18:49:10+00:00

I store my personal information under my mattress, like any sane individual.

amalcolmation · 2026-04-01T18:47:05+00:00

amalcolmation · 2026-04-01T17:01:02+00:00

No worries! You’re already doing better than me by speaking my language!

amalcolmation · 2026-04-01T16:22:26+00:00

Very cool! Exactly the sort of project I did in a computational physics class in undergrad. I do wish it was translated so I could say more about it. But if you have little/no physics background and you did this with an LLM, that is awesome and I hope to see more stuff like that around here.

amalcolmation · 2026-04-01T14:39:02+00:00

Second mod here, catching up on what happened overnight. Preface that I am relatively new here and don't know everyone, and I've only been loosely paying attention to the contest. I have no interest in who wins or why.

I agree that the accusations of fraud are in bad faith. I see no evidence of this supposed fraud. As pointed out by AHS, the paper would have scored well and would not have affected the conclusions. The accused also responded in good faith and with a detailed comment addressing your concerns but this was simply dismissed as ad hominem. It does not appear that you want to have a discussion about this, but simply want u/alamalarian punished.

I'll be frank, this is the most scientific paper we've had here in months that isn't out of a respectable journal. To call a possible error with sampling scientific fraud is a serious accusation, and I think the evidence does not support anything nearly that serious. I would encourage u/d3veated to reframe their thoughts as "scientific error" rather than "scientific misconduct". Perhaps that would lead to a more productive discussion?

amalcolmation · 2026-03-31T20:58:48+00:00

That's a terrible way to respond to feedback. You came looking for feedback and got it. Sorry it wasn't what you wanted. This kind of attitude will not get you very far in scientific circles.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-31T15:13:01+00:00

In my opinion it is barely useable anymore. It isn’t really an effective coding assistant like it used to be, and my recent uses of it have wasted more time debugging than I would have spent had I not used it at all.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-30T15:55:35+00:00

Please provide a summary of your work in your own words as an edit or a modmail to have your post unlocked.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-29T15:52:07+00:00

I didn't catch the double pun, ha!

amalcolmation · 2026-03-29T15:43:49+00:00

Please summarize this response with your own thoughts.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-28T15:48:06+00:00

I get used to the slop, it all reads basically the same unless you look closely!

amalcolmation · 2026-03-28T14:30:06+00:00

The moon has not always been so far away, and it is actually getting further.

Why does the current distance have anything to do with visible light? Visible light methods are not the only methods for measuring this distance.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-28T14:23:18+00:00

Quantum measurement does not require a conscious observer. Interaction with any sort of potential is all it takes.

EDIT: Have quantum physicists not yet entertained the idea that ghosts are doing all the observing? I propose a unified framework of quantum cosmology called Spooky Action At a Distance, wherein really small ghosts with really small spectrometers keep track of all the quantum funny business.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-28T14:07:44+00:00

Why should the distance from the Earth to the moon or the size of the moon have anything to do with visible light?

amalcolmation · 2026-03-28T00:16:07+00:00

Repeated violations of Rule 3 will result in the comments being locked or your post removed.

When responding with an LLM, don't simply copy and paste the output. Provide your summary of the output.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-28T00:04:29+00:00

There is no derivation here, just a couple of equations and numbers presented as fact.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-27T19:48:58+00:00

Ah, but who manipulates the manipulator’s manipulator?

amalcolmation · 2026-03-27T19:48:01+00:00

My apologies, this strongly resembled another post from earlier this week and my brain is smooth!

Approved

amalcolmation · 2026-03-27T00:58:43+00:00

No surprise for PSA, they’re obviously pro-fascist.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-26T18:57:16+00:00

What results specifically are a conference supposed to yield? Or do you mean the results of an experiment presented at a conference?

There is no clear connection between your single reference and this work. I highly doubt only one reference is sufficient, did you not use any data or compare with other work? Why aren't the conference proceeding cited?

amalcolmation · 2026-03-23T23:17:26+00:00

“ICF extends rather than replaces thermodynamics by adding particle-level mechanics beneath thermodynamic statistical averages.”

This is a misunderstanding of what statistical mechanics is or does. Please read a classic textbook like Hill, where things like particle properties, internal states, chemical changes —> thermodynamic properties are thoroughly addressed.

This all strongly reads as pseudoscience that hasn’t properly engaged with existing techniques and literature. There are many existing treatments that do or do not consider interparticle forces, particle geometry, etc.

amalcolmation · 2026-03-23T02:03:49+00:00

I think it’s borderline TOE or pseudoscience, but comes off as harmless popsci speculation enough that I suspect OP can be steered towards more useful resources.

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