Has anyone tried multiple iterations? That is, upload a real voice, get its synthesized version, upload synthesized version 1 to get synthesized version 2, rinse and repeat...
The SAT is just way too easy in the modern era. It needs to be rescaled so that the number of people attaining a perfect score is in the single digits per year.
An 800 single score is supposed to be 3 sigma above average, about 1 person out of every 740. There are just about a thousand people with 1600 scores every year, out of 2 million test takers. This is the way it's supposed to work.
As Project Scientist for BHEX, I am of course excited about the project and eager to spread the word about it! But as I wrote in my other comment, what this is really trying to "sell" is gravitational physics to students interested in black holes, and this effort is supported in part by the National Science Foundation.
A major part of the conservative brand is pretending to be the downtrodden underdog. Conservative media has massive reach from mainstream like Fox News to social on YouTube and TikTok.
The whole String Theory affair is amusing but also a sad spectacle.
These people convinced the world they were geniuses, but ended up fleecing funding agencies and universities for millions with zero accountability and scientific progress.
Do you have an example where funding was given out with zero accountability? I've worked at a number of universities and national laboratories for particle research and they all had multiple layers of accountability. At the top of any public funding structure is congress and the president and bigger initiatives will even be line items in public agency budgets. At the bottom are the required regular reports (I had biannually) to grant monitors and often independent review panels and committees (for one big project I had to do that annually on top of reports). In the middle are people who make it their jobs to find ways to save money, get money to the most promising projects, and communicating up to elected/presidentially appointed officials and down to researchers to keep this together. Both DOE and NSF funding are structured this way and represent virtually all federal channels to get money for particle physics, both experiment and theory.
What's the funding you're referring to with zero accountability?
The question, I think, is “how many alternative theories were dismissed by no funding?”
IF there was other people asking for funding for other topics or theories were dismissed because “strings are cool” then I expect some explanation. And boy there were other theories and projects asking for funding!
Do not read "the system is perfect" or even "good" from my post. I'm focusing only on the claim from the post above that there is "zero accountability". The people accountable are everyone in the chain I described and the whole thing hinges on people that ultimately answer to elections.
The worst of it reminds me of cryptocurrency schlock and how it has drained capital from our industry with little to show for it.
The pattern is similar: an infinitely fascinating puzzle to solve full of interesting math with potentially revolutionary implications if only… if only… but not enough people ask if it’s the right math solving the right problems in the right way or if it’s even applicable.
This phenomenon of smart people being nerd sniped to this degree reminds me of that episode of Star Trek TNG where they figured out a way to possibly destroy the Borg by giving them an infinitely fascinating unsolvable geometry problem to ponder until they lost their minds.
I also see some similarity to how people get triggered and sucked into and addicted to spirals of culture war and political rage or fear mongering or other media driven mind traps. This is less intellectual but seems similar in that you’ve got this meme that hooks us and creates a discourse around it that hooks us more and not enough people poke their heads out of the vortex and say “hey everyone is this really this big of a deal?”
We should become skeptical when we see a big idea accrete a lot of sound and fury around it but it’s not producing much and the main focus of the community circling it is self referential fascination with the idea itself.
