alt Hacker NewsMachine learning (AI) is used everywhere in astronomy. That's how they made the black hole image. Don't confuse the broader 60+ year old world of ML with transformers and diffusion models.
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vlovich123 • last Tuesday at 11:39 PM
Based on the paper I linked, it seems like a straight up classical sampling and clustering with baysian hyperparameter tuning. This is “everything is now AI” slop that’s infected all grants, academic and private industry fundraising. There’s no neural net or LLM involved.
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Not sure if there was an update/response to this but:
https://www.space.com/the-universe/black-holes/1st-image-of-...