tanderson92 (u/tanderson92)

tanderson92 commented on Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking harpers.org/archive/2026/... · Posted by u/ramimac

krackers · 20 days ago

More than the prose itself, I think it's that what he's writing about isn't exactly "common knowledge" but rather shrewd, piercing observation.

The way he understands and captures the dynamics makes you think he's a native to the "bay area" tech scene or immersed in TPOT. Yet here's a complete outsider, pinpointing the unstated core premises and paradoxes of these communities.

tanderson92 · 20 days ago

TPOT has a lot of spillover into the rest of twitter at this point; I assure you people in his twitter circles see their stuff all the time.

tanderson92 commented on Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/beardyw

cogman10 · 2 months ago

These are bad things but I have a hard time seeing these as the reason why science is lagging.

Science is lagging in the US because the US has destroyed viable careers in science.

Who does the hard work to get PHd in a scientific field knowing that they'll be saddled with hundreds of thousands of jobs in debt and that there's a good chance that they'll have no employment opportunities after the fact. Especially with the recent destruction of the public sector in scientific jobs, it's probably the worst time ever to get a degree in a field of science.

tanderson92 · 2 months ago

People do not graduate with a STEM PhD with hundreds of thousands in debt; that is not how the education system works pretty much anywhere in the world.

tanderson92 commented on US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots cnn.com/2026/01/05/health... · Posted by u/voxadam

schlauerfox · 2 months ago

You are not correct according to Reuters. "The new schedule also recommends U.S. children receive a single dose of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, rather than a two-dose course. Recent studies have concluded that a single dose is not inferior to the longer course and noted the World Health Organization also backs a single dose schedule." https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

tanderson92 · 2 months ago

Interesting. In context that is not the claim what I am contradicting in the comment chain, despite that it is the literal reading of what I said.

tanderson92 commented on US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots cnn.com/2026/01/05/health... · Posted by u/voxadam

paganholiday · 2 months ago

HIV was a gift to the Christian right and now that medication has been so successful, things like HPV make up a larger part of what they have left. Helping parents misuse their small power in general but extreme power over their children also plays into the hands of people wanting the corruption of power over truth.

tanderson92 · 2 months ago

There is no change in the HPV recommendation.

tanderson92 commented on Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer? · Posted by u/evolve2k

subscribed · 4 months ago

Learning to build packages? Gentoo? PERL?

As a first platform for a preteen?

tanderson92 · 4 months ago

I was literally contributing to Gentoo Linux at age 13. Before, my dad started me on Slackware.

edit: downvoted. Some of you all simply have no belief in or respect for the intelligence of children.

tanderson92 commented on Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news... · Posted by u/v4rp1ng

v4rp1ng · 5 months ago

So simple — why hasn't anyone thought of that already?

tanderson92 · 5 months ago

They have.

tanderson92 commented on The Vatican observatory looks to the heavens newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus

resource_waste · 7 months ago

What makes circles more special than a bunch of crumbs? Humans decided circles are interesting.

I am not denying analytical philosophy doesnt make true statements, but rather that there isnt anything mystical about these true statements. They are constructs of human language. There was no God that typed pi=3.14, but rather humans made 2pir = c true by developing a linguistical logic system where we have radius = 1 and c= 6.28.

tanderson92 · 7 months ago

This isn't true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoperimetric_inequality

tanderson92 commented on AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected understandingai.org/p/i-g... · Posted by u/qianli_cs

-__---____-ZXyw · 10 months ago

Did the title get changed, or have I started hallucinating?

Title is:

"I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me"

tanderson92 · 10 months ago

No, you are not hallucinating: https://web.archive.org/web/20250520152757/https://news.ycom...

tanderson92 commented on AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected understandingai.org/p/i-g... · Posted by u/qianli_cs

kjhughes · 10 months ago

It got changed (for the worse, in my opinion) away from the original title.

The original title is supposed to be favored here unless it has a serious problem.

This original title had no serious problem, unless accurately summarizing a PhD candidate's thoughtful critique of some questionable AI contributions to scientific research is a serious problem.

tanderson92 · 10 months ago

The present title is more friendly to VCs and the tech industry, shocking no one.

tanderson92 commented on Solving physics-based initial value problems with unsupervised machine learning link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/... · Posted by u/opnac

staunton · 10 months ago

This paper is solving (basically) high-school-level problems by training neural networks on the "obvious" cost function. All of those problems can be solved much cheaper by standard numerical solvers for ordinary differential equations. They don't even compare to standard methods.

So what's the point? Riding the neural network hype?

tanderson92 · 10 months ago

This is basically all work in the physics-informed ML literature. (As another commenter points out and links to, more and more people have been increasingly frustrated with the hype of this subcommunity).

What is more amazing is that they have conned their way into the funding agency priorities and have broadly affected hiring at universities.

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