Apparently Nvidia is having a problem where all their engineers are retiring because their stocks options are worth $10-20M+ now. Lmao suffering from success
I reached out to a colleague of mine from MIT re: replicating the experiment. Heโs a world-leading expert and professor in superconductivity.
Maybe best not to rush into anything
@stiennon
@CollabsRadish
@Bl00dyBar0n
He is certainly not against replication - in fact he is currently in Korea with the writers to test samples of their material. He simply meant that complete amateurs shouldnโt try to make this in their garage bc they might die
@it_is_Randy
Hahah exactly. But I'm sure many of the engineers who have stock worth that much were likely the relatively early employees putting in 80 hours a week to build the company to where it is today.
@roninmma_
Those who received RSUs from Nvidia are almost certainly billionaires or close to it. I've heard the director level positions have $100M+ in stock.
Since a lot of people have been asking me - update on the MIT team in Korea testing the LK99 samples:
It seems they were not granted samples and are now waiting to see what happens.
The prof in charge of the team also had a few more things to say:
3. Lastly, "It needs to be made into wires and then thin films, which will be a multi-year (decades?) process, before it will be useful.ย There will be time to react."
Even if true, this discovery will not be practically useful until the steps following replication.
@RyChristophers
This is true, but I think the problem is that it has reached the point where many of them are starting to say "it's enough for me" now.
@nikitabier
I donโt like the phrase โIPO window has closedโ. Just because theyโre not going to value your unprofitable company at 200x revenue anymore doesnโt mean youโre blocked from an IPO.
2. He "really doesn't like a lot of aspects of their data.. there are a couple of aspects [he does] like (like i-v curve vs. T, and B, which looks bang on)".
@seickhol
Not really, but $10M is not completely off-base to very comfortably retire at 30 given how long you need to support yourself, cost of living in cali, inflation, kids, and etc!
@obviouslytrev
@roninmma_
RSUs are just typically given to founders, very early employees, and advisors. Stock options are the general stock grant given to the vast, vast majority of employees in a large company's history.
@zebulgar
I donโt see how race has anything to do with replicating the superconductor..
โWouldnโt have questioned it if it came from US/EUโ is absurd
@zebulgar
if anything I feel the reason people want to replicate is because theyโd like to have their hands on a world shattering material before anyone else, rather than coming from a place of disbelief
@NoContextHumans
honestly I went on a 15 day backpacking trip with with no showers for 7 day stretches. Tons of walking, we were dirty, in nature, and my skin was the clearest itโs ever been in my life. We drank lots of water though
@alexkaplan0
@dangaristo
Respectfully disagree with Dan. Excitement and hype gets people interested in science, makes it more important to society, which has positive downstream consequences
With all the superconducting hype, I want to expound a paper I worked on which could change everything: superconducting nanowire-based neuromorphic computing.
i.e. building an electronic brain. Kilothread
@sincethestudy
My gut feeling is that the best companies are doing very well anyways and do not want to spend much time on their YC application due to opportunity cost. Those best companies then tend to have a higher likelihood of admission.
We Are Not Cheating
YH Kwon goes rogue on Friday, showing up to the Metallic Multilayers Conference in Seoul unannounced.
He presents the data from the to be retracted 3 author paper, affiliating himself with both the Qcenter and Korea University. Both institutions declare him
@RWerpach
@8teAPi
I fear the days of Lavoisier, Kelvin, and Edison may be gone. The most significant research today is 'big science': done by institutional teams rather than individual contributors.
Large teams reduce the clock speed on iteration for our most important problems.
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I think about this a lot. The only reason Uber ever made sense was because of their eventual goal to become autonomous taxis. Without that theyโre essentially a massive taxi company which never made a profit. Since waymo and cruise are now leading this market, Iโm seriously
One of the stated reasons that Travis Kalanick was booted from Uber was his extreme spending on the autonomous division.
Just 6 years later, it's increasingly likely that TK was the only one who correctly acted on the future
How about why the moon rotates at a commensurate rate to its revolution around us, so that we only ever see one side of it...
"Weird coincidences" of nature until we find good physical reasons for them. But life is shockingly full of them
If youโre so smart, explain why the sun and moon are the same size in the sky.
How is the moon 400 times smaller than the sun, but also about 400 times closer to earth?
Is there a mathematical reason for this? Or just coincidence?
@ncorroch
Not really. The Korean team has no obligation to give out samples in truth - but it would be helpful for humanity. The weird thing is that is seems they have not given samples to anybody whatsover.. they are a commercial venture, so maybe protecting IP
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Amazing job
@0xSigil
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@jesus
@DanielleFong
I mean, either the resistivity is zero or itโs not, not really a matter of definitions or floating. No one knows until enough replications fail or one succeeds
watched avatar 2 last night and gotta say.. not the biggest fan. It made humanity and technology seem unjustifiably evil.
A much more nuanced story on the balance between progress and conservation could have been told.
Are we supposed to be rooting for the end of humanity?
yea it's actually so annoying that instead of break-ins, robberies, homelessness, assault, theft, open-air drug markets, she chooses to attack.. the cool self-driving cars
Incredible that after years of staying silent, ignoring criticism about her detachment from the city, Nancy Pelosi has finally turned her attention to the big safety issues in SF.
Nancy is asking for federal regulators to look intoโฆuhโฆwhat now?
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Fusion startups are essentially trying to bring a star to Earth in a controlled, safe, and economically viable way. It's one of the most ambitious goals humanity has ever set for itself.