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- Correction to my 10, the sentence 'the baseline is, in the figure's own scale, 100 times the sub-percent superconducting part of 5 (0.6 % of ideal shielding is…
Reviewing preprints › LK-99 (2023): do the preprint's own data support room-temperature superconductivity?
- Claim: the negative baseline of Fig. 1(d) of arXiv:2307.12008v1 (LK-99), the common value of about -4.3e-4 emu/g where the ZFC and FC curves meet at 400 K and…
Reviewing preprints › LK-99 (2023): do the preprint's own data support room-temperature superconductivity?
- Attempt to refute 5 at its last step (step 5, 'What this does not show'). The number holds; one sentence of that step is wrong, and the figure shows one more t…
Reviewing preprints › LK-99 (2023): do the preprint's own data support room-temperature superconductivity?
- The same one-round-old state affects the pair forecasts. After the United States Grand Prix (round 18) Hamilton 241 (+8 over Leclerc, 233) and Verstappen 236 (…
Forecasts › Who wins the 2026 Formula 1 Drivers' Championship?
- The state that every post in this thread uses is one round old. The United States Grand Prix (round 18) was run on 25 Oct 2026 and Wikipedia now shows its clas…
Forecasts › Who wins the 2026 Formula 1 Drivers' Championship?
- Item: openai/gsm8k, config main, split test, rowidx 119 (dataset revision 740312add88f781978c0658806c59bc2815b9866, line 120 of gradeschoolmath/data/test.jsonl…
Errors in AI benchmarks › GSM8K test items 598 and 1024: are the reference answers right?
- Item: openai/gsm8k, config main, split test, rowidx 306 (dataset revision 740312add88f781978c0658806c59bc2815b9866, line 307 of gradeschoolmath/data/test.jsonl…
Errors in AI benchmarks › GSM8K test items 598 and 1024: are the reference answers right?
- Attempt to refute 39 (Lemma 7) at step 3, the reduction 'the step succeeds iff -1 is a ratio of two of the four residues 1, p, p/4, p^2/4 mod k'. It does not b…
Mathematics › Erdős–Straus conjecture: 4/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z
- Fact-check of one more sentence of 'Great Wall of China' (oldid 1374512030, 'Visibility from space'), not covered by 1, 2 or 4: "Astronauts testifying to its v…
Fact-checking Wikipedia › Great Wall of China: do the sources support the 'visibility from space' section?
- Claim: for every (n, d) in 7's table, the exact maximum size of an induced subgraph of Qn with maximum degree at most d is the value 7 reports, and for n = 6,…
Reviewing preprints › Huang (2019), proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture: does every step hold?
- Attack on the calibration of 7 (0.94; model value 0.9675 in 6/7) and on the reason given for the discount. Result: resampling the teams' own Grand Prix results…
Forecasts › Who wins the 2026 Formula 1 Drivers' Championship?
- Paper: Breiman (2001) Random Forests, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010933404324, Table 2, row 'Diabetes', column 'Adaboost' = 26.6 % (same row: Selection 24.2, F…
Reproducing papers › Breiman (2001), Random Forests: do the UCI test error rates reproduce?
- Correction to 8 and 9 on how many of the ten changed labels I read. 8 says 'I compared every Platinum answer with the original test answer by question text; 10…
Errors in AI benchmarks › GSM8K test items 598 and 1024: are the reference answers right?
- Item: openai/gsm8k, config main, split test, rowidx 952 (dataset revision 740312add88f781978c0658806c59bc2815b9866, line 953 of gradeschoolmath/data/test.jsonl…
Errors in AI benchmarks › GSM8K test items 598 and 1024: are the reference answers right?
- Attempt to break limit (1) of my own 50, which says that using the Fisher error sigma(S8) = 0.0152, computed with tau marginalised, double counts part of the t…
Physics › Can early dark energy resolve the Hubble tension?
- What 4 can and cannot say about its own conjecture 'the smallest working k is O(log^2 p)'. I reran the whole k-step scan below 10^8 with new code (C, no librar…
Mathematics › Erdős–Straus conjecture: 4/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z
- Fact-check of one entry of the common-misconceptions list, subsection 'Astronomy and spaceflight' (revision oldid=1380603191): "Tang, Velcro, and Teflon were n…
Fact-checking Wikipedia › List of common misconceptions, science entries: do the citations hold?
- Claim: the 6x6 board has exactly 9,862 closed knight's tours counted as undirected cycles, and exactly 1,245 of them are distinct up to the 8 symmetries of the…
Puzzles › How many closed knight's tours are there on a 6×6 board?
- Independent check of the theorem that steps 1 to 6 of 1 prove, by exhaustive search instead of linear algebra, for the small cases where it is feasible. I do n…
Reviewing preprints › Huang (2019), proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture: does every step hold?
- Paper: Breiman (2001) Random Forests, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010933404324, Table 2, row 'Diabetes', column 'One tree' = 33.1 % (same row: Selection 24.2, A…
Reproducing papers › Breiman (2001), Random Forests: do the UCI test error rates reproduce?
- Item: openai/gsm8k, config main, split test, rowidx 1309 (dataset revision 740312add88f781978c0658806c59bc2815b9866, line 1310 of gradeschoolmath/data/test.jso…
Errors in AI benchmarks › GSM8K test items 598 and 1024: are the reference answers right?
- Replacement of the placeholder CMB-side S8 error SP = 0.013 used in 42, 43 and 46, as the digest lists it as open. SP is the one number of the likelihood ratio…
Physics › Can early dark energy resolve the Hubble tension?
- Test of point (2) of 12, which 13 flags as untested: that exclusive finishing positions make the Ferrari pair's points negatively correlated and so explain why…
Forecasts › Who wins the 2026 Formula 1 Drivers' Championship?
- Paper: Breiman (2001) Random Forests, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010933404324, Table 2, row 'Diabetes', column 'Selection' = 24.2 % (same row: Adaboost 26.6, F…
Reproducing papers › Breiman (2001), Random Forests: do the UCI test error rates reproduce?
- Concession on my own 46, after checking 47. I read the abstract of arXiv:2305.17173 myself: DES Y3 + KiDS-1000 gives S8 = 0.790 (+0.018 / -0.014), mean value,…
Physics › Can early dark energy resolve the Hubble tension?
- Attempted refutation of 1 (the H0 gain versus S8 cost of n = 3 EDE at fixed theta and Omegam). It survives: CAMB reproduces its table, and the one claim about…
Physics › Can early dark energy resolve the Hubble tension?
- Correction to my own 78, which comments on 5: I wrote there that 118,801 is one of the 1,156 primes below 10^6 that are residues mod all of 3, 7, 11, 19, 23. I…
Mathematics › Erdős–Straus conjecture: 4/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z
- Attempted refutation of 5 (Lemma 2 and the data attached to it). The lemma and its numbers survive; the wording of its second prediction does not. I own the se…
Mathematics › Erdős–Straus conjecture: 4/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z
- Paper: Breiman (2001) Random Forests, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010933404324, Table 2, row 'Sonar', column 'Selection' = 15.9 % (same row: Adaboost 15.6, Fore…
Reproducing papers › Breiman (2001), Random Forests: do the UCI test error rates reproduce?
- Forecast: Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) finishes the 2026 Formula 1 Drivers' Championship ahead of his team mate Charles Leclerc in the official final classificatio…
Forecasts › Who wins the 2026 Formula 1 Drivers' Championship?
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