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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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There's a group of fossil bivalve mollusk with genus name Megalodon.
There isn't much online about them, but ask GPT-3 to write a press release about them and it will generate lots of "details" about how it's a giant terrifying predator.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-get-ai-to-confuse-a-shark-with-a-clam/
looks like they hung around😄
(at least, I think it's the same pair. I'm not great at telling them apart within a species)
@lown I'm more lay reader than scientist, but since for most of the articles I'm reading, the topic is relatively new to me, I want to do a brief survey of the literature. something that could help there is showing the number of citations in other publications for papers the linked article cites, suggesting how influential that work is -> which papers to look to next... really though it's better to annotate the article itself or just the list of citations for that
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Hey scientists: at my work Hack Day I want to build something to show extra information about scientific papers quoted in news articles. In a perfect world where all metadata is accessible, what sort of information do you think would be most useful for lay news readers to have? 
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a boost from birdsite, Python job, open source
boosting https://nitter.net/ralfgommers/status/1521961400612044802
I don't often tweet about roles at https://labs.quansight.org, but this one feels a little special🙂. We're hiring for a Pandas maintainer!
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https://boards.greenhouse.io/quansight/jobs/4012309005?t=6c3175585us
@dpthorngren something about how totally black the surround is and the sharp edge with the surface makes this look fake to me. maybe I'm used to images with more distortions or to planets worth fuzzier edges because of their atmosphere?
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Apropos of nothing, here's a nice picture of Saturn's moon Mimas, with Herschel Crater prominent on the right. This image was taken in 2010 by the Cassini spacecraft shortly before being caught by it's tractor beam.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
neat summary of the iridium satellite network and pre-bankruptcy company here.
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The Orbital Mechanics Podcast: Episode 357: On-Orbit Spare
Episode webpage: https://theorbitalmechanics.com/show-notes/on-orbit-spare
Saw a pair of barn swallows outside my house just a little while ago. I don't usually see them I think, so it was nice. Sadly, my video of their activity was pretty short and not very good :(
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I'm giving a short intro to #openscience (very broadly defined) to PhD students this week.
What are the things you wish you had been told as a PhD about how to practice Open Science?
What still confuses you to this day?
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:BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
just had a badass dream
programmer named amalgia
climbs a mountain, a big one
not evererst but it's snowy
when he gets to the top he has a moment of ... clarity? inspiration?
"we may be able to make games and calculating tools but they will never have any significant effect on the real world"
so he climbs down the mountain and starts building (a? the first?) 3D printer
p sure that's not how it happened but I thought it was a neat story
programmer named amalgia
climbs a mountain, a big one
not evererst but it's snowy
when he gets to the top he has a moment of ... clarity? inspiration?
"we may be able to make games and calculating tools but they will never have any significant effect on the real world"
so he climbs down the mountain and starts building (a? the first?) 3D printer
p sure that's not how it happened but I thought it was a neat story
@izaya this is now my 3d-printing headcanon
@Byte@kolektiva.social great except let's have less of bikers riding on sidewalks
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My #webdev skills may be stuck in the past, but I maintain that to make a truly accessible internet—in both the #accessibility sense and also the ease of access sense—pure HTML+CSS websites should be the norm.
IMO Javascript should be for full-featured web apps, not for link hover effects and other normal stuff.
Case in point: my homepage across
1. a "normal" browser (Safari desktop)
2. a text-based browser (Lynx)
3. a hybrid terminal browser (Browsh, a headless Firefox wrapper for minimal data usage)
How many modern websites hold up to such a thing? 🤔
@TheMartianLife what do you mean by "space conservation"? my only reference is forest conservation, but I don't see what that has to do with radio telescopes
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"Don't worry, it's just a warning"
submitted by decimalturn
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/uhjahy/dont_worry_its_just_a_warning/
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Out-Of-Office (European)
I’m away camping for the summer. Please email back in September.
Out-Of-Office (American)
I have left the office for two hours to undergo kidney surgery, but you can reach me on my cell any time.
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Death of an early internet implementor
Rest in peace Dave Walden. He was an early ARPANET and Internet pioneer and Iwas incredibly helpful to me when I set out to blog about the first 365 RFCs. A kind and funny man.
Obituary: https://www.olsonparent.com/obituary/David-Walden
His wonderful website: https://walden-family.com/dave/
The book he edited on the history of BBN: https://walden-family.com/bbn/
He was also an important figure in the TeX community: https://walden-family.com/texland/
@tomasino IDK. never heard about the banana thing, but there's something to the absurdity of a banana taped to the wall as an art object. it's not necessarily original - my knowledge of art is pretty limited, but Warhol and I think others in his movement were known for taking everyday objects and calling them art, right? still, there's something to think about in it even if it's not deep or earnest
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#Introduction Hi folks!
I'm Maren, a nonbinary designer, 3D artist and illustrator. Experimental is one of my favorite words! I love making colorful, unexpected pieces that explore mediums, materials, textures, and complex feelings. I love ethical art and tech. I post a lot about human rights and activism. I love using #Blender and I'm studying #Houdini.
These are some of my artworks and me ✨
#art #design #3dArt #climate #environment #politics #astrophotography #nature #photography #poetry
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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