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#MIT Asks #arXiv To Take Down #Preprint Paper On #AI and Scientific Discovery
"MIT has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper. Based upon this finding, we also believe that the inclusion of this paper in arXiv may violate arXiv's Code of Conduct."
The paper by Aidan Toner-Rodgers, investigated #AI-driven materials discovery by 1,018 #scientists in a U.S. R&D lab.
https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Snowmass 2021 cross frontier report: Dark matter complementarity
Antonio Boveia et al.
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 7 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.7
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday it can no longer stand behind a widely circulated paper on artificial intelligence written by a doctoral student in its economics program.
The paper said that the introduction of an AI tool in a materials-science lab led to gains in new discoveries, but had more ambiguous effects on the scientists who used it.
MIT didn’t name the student in its statement Friday, but it did name the paper. That paper, by Aidan Toner-Rodgers, was covered by The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets.
In a press release, MIT said it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
The university said the author of the paper is no longer at MIT.
Toner-Rodgers didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The paper said that after an AI tool was implemented at a large materials-science lab, researchers discovered significantly more materials—a result that suggested that, in certain settings, AI could substantially improve worker productivity. But it also showed that most of the productivity gains went to scientists who were already highly effective, and that overall the AI tool made scientists less happy about their work."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092
MIT Asks arXiv To Take Down Preprint Paper On AI and Scientific Discovery
Another day, another #spam #email from #MIT, despite the fact that over the past 20+ years I've unsubscribed over, and over, and over, more times than I can count. Every single time they send me an email I unsubscribe, and yet they keep inventing new and inventive excuses for why it's OK to start emailing me again.
One of the world's preeminent institutions of technology can't figure out how to (or doesn't care to) build an effective alumni do-not-email list.
Fuckers.
So much interesting stuff about that and this thread.
It's not a real image from the study. It's a cartoon done for that magazine piece by London-based illustrator Simon Landrein, so all of the arguments about the cartoon (trees, curve, pedestrian crossing) aren't responding to what the actual test questions were, which were asked back in 2018 moreover.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6
Then there's the #BadJournalism.
#BostonWeekend 31/x
Sun #Geek #tech #bargains #retro - monthly
returns to #MIT - 9am start http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
#CambridgeMA
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
The complex Liouville string: The matrix integral
Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Beatrix Mühlmann, Victor A. Rodriguez
SciPost Phys. 18, 154 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.5.154
[en] Misconception: strength of an #egg when dropped
Funny or not:
No, an egg is NOT strongest when dropped vertically.
"A horizontal egg, being more compliant, bends and absorbs energy over a greater distance — similar to how bending your knees during a fall softens the blow."
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-sideways-stronger-0508
#misconception #funny #mit #engineering #research #mechanicalengineering
#ResearchHighlights
MIT baut hochpräzisen und schlagkräftigen Tischtennisroboter
Das MIT hat den wohl schnellsten Tischtennisroboter der Welt entwickelt. Der Roboter hat aber noch so seine Tücken.
Here is a better photo of the tiny Necco wafer sculpture, in University Park near #MIT, commemorating the former site of the Necco factory. As Atlas Obscura notes, almost everyone who notices it must think it's random public art of a ruptured coin purse. Why are the wafers in a bag and not a roll, which is how you'd actually buy them? I don't know. (And I *would* buy them! I liked these candies, and I am apparently alone in this regard, to hear my Boston friends tell it.) #Boston #CambridgeMA
The document, dated March 11, 2025, focuses specifically on records & communications from the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (R/FIMI) Hub, a small office in the #State Dept’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracked & countered foreign #disinformation campaigns; it was created after the Global Engagement Center (#GEC), which had the same mission, shut down at the end of 2024. #MIT Technology Review broke the news earlier this month that R/FIMI would be shuttered.
Making AI-generated code more accurate in any programming language using sequential Monte Carlo https://news.mit.edu/2025/making-ai-generated-code-more-accurate-0418 #AI #LLM #MIT
#BostonWeekend 6/x
Fri-Sat #festival: Springfest @ #MIT https://calendar.mit.edu/event/springfest-2025 #CambridgeMA
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By pulling up the drawbridge around higher education in the U.S., Donald Trump is sabotaging the transnational networks that have amplified American power. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/29/world/stop-scaring-future-world-leaders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #softpower #educations #mit #harvard
Now that I think of it, Kendall changed wildly too, it was sleepy #MIT, and maybe some startups. Now it just feels like its been taken over by BioPharma concerns.
At least the #Kendall Band is still slightly functional, when thats gone, all is lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvRVtaSKKI0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_Band
#CambridgeMA #Boston
"New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.
The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.
'Picks And Shovels' is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. "—Jacobin
"Picks And Shovels" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, with Yanis Varoufakis @VaroufakisDE & David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com >
