I spent the last few days with Opus 4.6 and my mind is blown and I’m feeling terrible for software engineers. Definitely something big is coming, and it’s coming this or next year.

Where are the citizens of the United States in mass protests on the streets?

Aliens! 🛸👽🤪

You deserve a FIFA prize for this insight.

Absolutely recommended.

A week later, the universe is fully ionized, thermally coupled to caffeine, and expanding under dark energy (deadlines).

Foregrounds (food, family, naps) dominate by several orders of magnitude. The first work email marks cosmic dawn. A single luminous source, faint, irritating, and immediately overinterpreted. By Jan 2nd, reionization is underway: patchy, nonlinear, driven by poorly modeled feedback processes.

The week between Xmas and New Year is like the dark ages: last scattering and recombination just happened and reality is transparent, but emotionally saturated from earlier events, just low-level isotropic leftovers. No stars, no structure, no meetings.

There is an entire world out there. 😜

May the damping be with you. 🤗

Note: you started with 3.
Merry Xmas!

It would help if you would take the time to read the actual research papers.

We have seen the NiI/FeI ratios decrease to solar system comet levels and even below. We took fresh spectra last night and the production rate ratios of various elements and compounds change again in a very well-understood thermo-chemodynamic way.

Thanks for the kudos! I will extend them to my grad students. They led the nickel discovery VLT paper.
As for the comment: Yes, that was my thinking too. There is so much more science in the works than the ignorance-fed sensationalism. I’m really disappointed by Avi and his misinformation campaign.

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🤗 yes, I know. I’m co-author on this one. ☺️ I was more interested in the non-descriptive “nickel ratio” of the other commenter. “Ratio” to what?

What “hi nickel ratio” are you referring to?

Word!

Is the lower left not the Loeb focus?

Well well well, uncertainty is not evidence, residuals are not anomalies, ignorance is not a signal.

🔥 Russell’s Teapot was observed at perigee last night, still demanding telescope time. If the clouds stop playing peekaboo tonight, we will have sorted photons of 3I/ATLAS from three 8m giants tomorrow morning.

Indeed.

🧠 Bayesian reminder: “We don’t understand everything yet” is not a likelihood boost for aliens; it’s just the normal state of frontier science and perhaps a mirror of your ignorance.

You already sent me one. 🤗

Never
Never
Never
Give up!

I predict more water. 🤞

You earned some implicit clout there. 😜

Why would this measurement be embarrassing?

Count me in.

Aliens everywhere!! 🛸👽👾
🙏🏻 Sorry, just gave an interview back to back with Harvard, and am still traumatized by this nonsense.

This is amazing SHPEREx data indeed. What I like most about this mission is that no photon is left behind. All wavelength are recorded.