Cool discovery, but I'd be real curious about the false-positive rate when letting coding agents loose on raw astronomical telemetry. Hallucinations in data reduction are no joke.
pizza234 9 hours ago [-]
From the discussion:
> even got NASA to point a telescope at it for confirmation
colijobles 9 hours ago [-]
with a proper stats harness the false positive rate can be brought well down to acceptable levels
phoronixrly 9 hours ago [-]
Oh don't worry, after claude democratises astronomy the false positives will be cleaned up by the real astronomers. As seen in math and open-source development.
This will be the first time I've had anything in common with a mathematician btw -- wading through heaps of claudeism-infested slop all day long.
binary132 4 hours ago [-]
They downvoted him because he spoke the truth.
higeorge13 10 hours ago [-]
This is incredible use of AI tools. Big kudos!
k310 10 hours ago [-]
Planet Claude?
Asking for a friend.
car 9 hours ago [-]
Claire maybe?
HackerThemAll 10 hours ago [-]
Hope not.
amirkhanian 8 hours ago [-]
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thatguy0900 4 hours ago [-]
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wartywhoa23 10 hours ago [-]
Found a planet and saved a granny. Wake me up when this planet is acknowledged by any astonomer community with more say than r/ClaudeAI.
thiht 7 hours ago [-]
Like NASA?
VCFundedGenYer 5 hours ago [-]
Vibe researching is not real researching. Leave it to the experts at NASA.
supersparrow 46 minutes ago [-]
Why? We have been allowing technology to progress us for decades. Why stop now?
black6 4 hours ago [-]
We're coming back around to an era of the Citizen Scientist.
soltanov 10 hours ago [-]
Call me when peer review confirms it; until then, it is noise fitting noise.
(Reason: Clean cut through the hype directly to scientific validation.)
soltanov 5 hours ago [-]
I don't understand the downvotes on this topic. Almost everybody is in grey :)
wartywhoa23 13 minutes ago [-]
The color of truth on HN.
_fuchs 10 hours ago [-]
So much AI in the writing. If you dont care to write i do not care to read.
frmrtntn 2 hours ago [-]
It's interesting that a few months ago your sentiment would have been upvoted. I've noticed recently that things seem to be flipping around. Sadly, I think it's inevitable that people will accept a form of communication that consists of people trading slop. Even worse, the author lies about using AI for the writeup in the comments.
I've been tinkering with the latter for the last couple of months. Yesterday my system made some progress on instabilities on a particular superconductive system: https://colinocallaghan.com/autonomous-ai-research/Spatial-P...
> "We got vibe astronomy before GTA6"
> even got NASA to point a telescope at it for confirmation
This will be the first time I've had anything in common with a mathematician btw -- wading through heaps of claudeism-infested slop all day long.
Asking for a friend.