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.
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.
Brilliant application. Imagine the progress we could make with models post trained on scientific process and a good agentic process.
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...
Laughed at the reddit comment
> "We got vibe astronomy before GTA6"
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.
From the discussion:
> even got NASA to point a telescope at it for confirmation
with a proper stats harness the false positive rate can be brought well down to acceptable levels
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.
Vibe researching is not real researching. Leave it to the experts at NASA.
We're coming back around to an era of the Citizen Scientist.
This is incredible use of AI tools. Big kudos!
Planet Claude?
Asking for a friend.
Claire maybe?
Hope not.
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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.
Like NASA?
Call me when peer review confirms it; until then, it is noise fitting noise. (Reason: Clean cut through the hype directly to scientific validation.)
I don't understand the downvotes on this topic. Almost everybody is in grey :)
So much AI in the writing. If you dont care to write i do not care to read.