First screen, captured .
423 points by crummy | 71 comments
A satirical undergraduate physics lab report ranting about a failed experiment measuring the temperature dependence of resistivity in germanium.
341 points by ent101 | 136 comments
Excerpt from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" where Feynman recounts recovering from burnout by playing with physics, starting with a wobbling plate.
72 points by tmalsburg2 | 41 comments
31 points by lr0 | 37 comments
48 points by blakewatson | 36 comments
423 points by crummy | 71 comments
A satirical undergraduate physics lab report ranting about a failed experiment measuring the temperature dependence of resistivity in germanium.
331 points by joshwa | 113 comments
arXiv paper introducing SWE-Bench+, an empirical analysis revealing data quality issues in the SWE-bench coding benchmark for LLMs, such as solution leakage and weak tests.
26 points by surprisetalk | 1 comments
A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.
411 points by dnw | 368 comments
Substack essay from Vagabond Research arguing that LLMs produce plausible rather than correct code, using a simple database primary key lookup test as an example.
497 points by spekcular | 373 comments
arXiv preprint presenting DFT calculations of the electronic structure of the putative room-temperature superconductor LK-99 (Pb9Cu(PO4)6O), finding flat Cu bands at the Fermi level.
97 points by xqcgrek2 | 47 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.