The early universe was a plain with almost no relief; the CMB’s part-in-a-hundred-thousand temperature ripples carry its imprint. Gravity raised that relief into the cosmic web — in a stranger order than almost anyone pictures. With a browser-tab universe to watch it happen.
A small forensic look at the public OpenReview record for the NeurIPS 2023 AI4Science workshop. Accepted oral and poster papers share a venue but not a score distribution, and the shapes are more revealing than the means.
A story about AI agents, test suites, and why the breakthroughs that mattered still came from scientific judgment and human conversation.