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It's notable that LLMs have now made substantial progress on four of the seven Millennium Prize problems, resolving one of them: Hodge, Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer, Riemann, and Navie…
by qnleigh · Oct 7, 2026
From the article: > Candidate 1: Designed a Luttinger Compensated Magnet, YBaMnFeO₅ > Candidate 2: Identified a Luttinger Compensated Magnet in KV[Cr(CN)₆] from 1999 > KV[Cr(CN)…
by westurner · Oct 6, 2026
This reads like neither the prompter or the AI know enough about magnetism to claim they found a new candidate for a magnetic semi.
by PowerElectronix · Oct 6, 2026
Some magnetic fun facts: - Superconductors are perfect diamagnets and can levite on (or hang from) ferromagnets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHT6NIebSfU ) - S…
by tedsanders · Oct 6, 2026
I suppose it is also possible it was written by a human who wasn't very familiar with magnetism based on what claude told them.
by thayne · Oct 6, 2026
> We’re all used to two types of magnet. The common one, the fridge magnet, is ferromagnetic — its atomic magnets all point the same way (up or down), adding their magnetic effe…
by tedsanders · Oct 5, 2026
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Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, magnetism is one of two aspects of electromagnetism. Read more on Wikipedia