Because “looking at images, not catalogs” is a dying pastime, the paper includes a tutorial on -how- to interpret images of galaxies. Qualitative information alone can get you a surprisingly long way towards a reasonable model, if you’re thinking through the links between morphology and physics.
Just casually reminding everyone that my book comes out in a few weeks, it REALLY helps if you preorder, and if you want a signed copy, you can get one shipped to you from Loyalty Books in DC 🖖🏽
Record profits are unpaid wages.
In a just society, one 40-hour a week job should pay enough to support a nuclear family — one brief stint as CEO should not pay so much it creates generation wealth and empowers the 1% to buy our elections.
#TaxTheBillionaires
Applications are open for our visiting grad student pre-doctoral program at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org !
More info here:
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One year in the federal assault on climate science — a review and prospective
Now that he’s started a war, I’ve completely forgotten that he’s a pedophile.
OpenAI steps into the void created by Anthropic. Their AI will be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons for the US government.
Boycott them now.
ugh!!!
A screenshot from the show Twin Peaks, showing a man driving a car while speaking into the recorder. He says "Diane, 11:30am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."
Happy Twin Peaks day 🌲
🔭 Carl's work was foundational for a lot of the science I do. He was also a generous, kind, and interesting person. I'll never forget the stories he told me about paragliding (on custom-built gliders!) in the Australian Outback. He will be missed! End gun violence. adrian.pw/blog/carl-gr...
🔭 Carl's work was foundational for a lot of the science I do. He was also a generous, kind, and interesting person. I'll never forget the stories he told me about paragliding (on custom-built gliders!) in the Australian Outback. He will be missed! End gun violence. adrian.pw/blog/carl-gr...
imo you should have to have a licence to use an LLM and its interface should never be more than minimally conversational. a coding assistant is probably fine for society, a conversation machine fundamentally isn't safe to give to the general public
absolutely horrible news
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I can't afford steak. But at least now I know that they are defunding diversity programs at companies and schools that I have never heard of.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west
The lead author's position on using AI tools in research and writing can be summarized as: use them as you would use a colleague. They can help with brainstorming, literature review, and organizing ideas, but the core intellectual work, derivations, and writing should be done by the authors themselves. As such, this work made use of Claude (Anthropic) as a tool to help provide entrypoints into the relevant literature and to help brainstorm the scope and outline of this work. All text was written by the authors, all derivations were done by the authors, and the associated code was developed using GitHub copilot as an assistant.
Working on my first FA paper in the era of LLM, so it was important to me to develop a position on how I want to use them in my work. IMO it makes sense to acknowledge and state how these tools were used! But I suspect many are using without limits or a position on how...
A plot showing the locations of stars around the stellar stream GD-1. There's clearly a dense filament there where the stream is, but there are some plainly visible gaps too. Image made with data from https://zenodo.org/records/1295543 ( 10.5281/zenodo.1295542, Ana Bonaca and Adrian Price-Whelan), CC-BY 4.0
Stars in our galaxy aren’t distributed evenly. Collisions with smaller galaxies or clusters make “stellar streams,” which are long, thin trails of stars. They form as the smaller object stretches while it falls into the Milky Way.
So… why does this stream have a MASSIVE hole in it??
1/7 ⚛️🧪
I’m trying not to be impulsive in my commentary so I’m just posting this story without offering any of the comments that I could readily make about it
But 2014 is after 2007
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
On the beach, a shallow ring of water forms around an ammonite fossil. Curled up and naked, a woman lies on her side atop the ridged surface of the spiral. Her eyes are closed as if she's asleep or perhaps lost deep in contemplation. Her arms are a tangle, with one bent to sink fingers into her dark blonde hair. Beneath her, the other arm extends past the point of her knee to hold up the fanned leaf of a gingko tree against the smooth skin of her calf. Small shards crack off the ammonite as the water retreats over smooth sand. In the immediate foreground mossy rocks jut out of the sand. In the background, larger angled rock formations partially obscure the horizon but open enough to provide a view of the frothy surf rolling in.
KAIROS (2007)
Acrylic - 24” x 36”
I didn’t want to just call this PRUDENCE 3, so I looked all over for a word that captured the idea of the painting and KAIROS is the only one that fit. 1/5
www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ka...
#art
womp -- I tried uploading to Wikimedia Commons but new users aren't allowed to upload PDFs 😪
oops!!
Congrats to our three new Scientific Software Research Faculty Fellows: Northwestern University's Alex Edison, Clemson University's Christopher Karwin and Georgia Tech's Meg Millhouse: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-foundation-announces-3-new-scientific-software-research-faculty-fellows/
soundtrack for a few moments of peace and comfort (Boards of Canada - 5.9.78):
youtu.be/9S7cVCFUqE8?...
I generally agree, but as someone with a job title (Research Scientist) that doesn't fully describe my role (running a research group, advising students and postdocs, etc.) I like to include one sentence to define what "research scientist" means at the CCA
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
The CCA @flatironinstitute.org is hiring postdocs!
We have two types, both independent fellowships:
FRF: 3 year research fellowship apply.interfolio.com/173403
FSRF: 5 year research+software fellowship apply.interfolio.com/173402
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