[fock]

I work in computational materials science (where ML brings funding) and a funny paper of this kind is here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11... - they are literally trying out 100000s of possible combinations by brute force, to build a "physical model".

Then they go on conferences and brag about it, because they have to (otr they know it's bs). Datasets are soso (you can have a look at QM9...) and for more specialized things, people generally don't bother trying to benchmark or compare their results on a common reference. It's just something new...

And with all that: even without doing fancy statistical methods without knowing too much about it, your theoretical computations might not make so much sense (at least in the sheer number which is pumped out and published)...

[jordigh]

> (otr they know it's bs).

Well, that's a new acronym for me. I wonder where it came from. Apparently it's "on the real". Sounds like AAVE?

[EsotericAlgo]

I thought it was off the record like the old Pidgin plugin or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging.

[nhooyr]

It means off the record.

[fock]

off-the-record (not written, not cited, but available in personal discussions).

[jordigh]

Oh, I thought "on the real" fit the context better, meaning they knew in their heart of hearts it was bullshit, but "off the record" is about the same.

[spoopyskelly]

> Well, that's a new acronym for me. I wonder where it came from. Apparently it's "on the real". Sounds like AAVE?

> AAVE

OK.

[ortusdux]

typo for 'or'?