[Article] Harvard physicist's take on the VMS

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RE: Harvard physicist's take on the VMS - Koen G - 05-10-2026

(1 hour ago)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It looks like the guy in short time generated with AI 36 articles on different fields that aren't his professional area of expertise.
And he is sponsored by AI company so these articles are more an advertisement of their product than the real science.

I will from now on, on a completely personal and subjective basis, refuse to interact with articles like these in any positive way. It is not the reader's task to find any value in your wall of maybe-slop-maybe-not. That is your job as the author. Tell us what you researched, how you did it and what you learned, in a way people can understand.

As someone who strongly believes in the maxim that any published writing should have first of all the reader in mind, I hate this evolution.

RE: Harvard physicist's take on the VMS - Jacob Carolus - 05-10-2026

(1 hour ago)Ruby Novacna Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Unfortunately, I haven't quite grasped the extent of human involvement or how to use his "Bootloops" tool.

This is an article about their project.

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RE: Harvard physicist's take on the VMS - eggyk - 05-10-2026

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Quote:If all you want is the results from the applications described here, the code for those is stored on bootloops.ai (this site). Simply ask your LLM to pull the code or paper you need from here. It's worth emphasizing that the papers here were almost entirely written by Claude, and they are not written well. To save yourself frustration, a recommended approach is to ask your LLM to read them and to explain to you what is in them. Interrogating the science that way may be more rewarding. On the other hand, the papers are actual self-contained science papers with broad introductions, details, plots, discussion, methodology, etc. So they can be read. Just don't expect Shakespeare (except the quotes in the Shakespeare paper).

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Ah yes, let's spam publish long, hard-to-read scientific papers that are almost impossible to check by humans, then imply that we published them to give them credibility. That way, everyone will have to rely on AI to check scientific papers. It's almost like this guy is sponsored by Anthropic or something.... Dodgy

RE: Harvard physicist's take on the VMS - Jorge_Stolfi - 05-10-2026

(Yesterday, 03:15 PM)DG97EEB Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Would this work?
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Thanks for the link! But do you mean that the VMS has been compared statistically to that Chinese text?

All the best, --stolfi.

RE: Harvard physicist's take on the VMS - DG97EEB - 05-10-2026

(23 minutes ago)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(Yesterday, 03:15 PM)DG97EEB Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Would this work?
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Thanks for the link! But do you mean that the VMS has been compared statistically to that Chinese text?

All the best, --stolfi.

For example...

Btw, see my note on the Chinese thread.. there's every digitised copy of the Bencao that China knows of, but it's on a Baidu drive I can't access but maybe our Chinese contributor can..

RE: Harvard physicist's take on the VMS - Ruby Novacna - 05-10-2026

(1 hour ago)Jacob Carolus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(1 hour ago)Ruby Novacna Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Unfortunately, I haven't quite grasped the extent of human involvement or how to use his "Bootloops" tool.

This is an article about their project.
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I read that article yesterday; all those files on GitHub are beyond my level of understanding.
It's great for researchers who are used to working with AI.