I just love this image - it highlights why we need all the different telescopes: each of them looks at the same object in different ways. And only when working together a complete image emerges.
Here, #Euclid's wide field is combined with #Hubble's zoom-in and #JWST sharpest IR image we ever obtained, allowing us to study how radiation interacts with interstellar matter.
@vicgrinberg@napari thanks! yeah re:raw data I presume there are Python libraries to get NumPy arrays from the raw files, and hopefully not too hard to use as a domain novice! 😅😬😬😂
Is there a comprehensive archive, with references, of Elsevier's many sins against scientific progress? @albertcardona@brembs The lead authors of a paper I played a small role in want to submit to Cell 🤢 and I would like to dissuade them.
Follow-up Q: I have a vague vibe that, although the entire traditional publishing system needs to die in a fire, NPG are not quite as scummy as Elsie. Is that vibe justified or not really?
@jonny@albertcardona@brembs Indeed the basic “all ‘legacy’ journals must die” premise is assumed correct in the question and includes NPG, but I am trying to be realistic about how much I can get in this battle — the authors list is overwhelmingly traditionalist and wary even of preprints. 😞 I'll push for eLife but even that is a stretch. Is it worth steering from Cell to Nature & co? I think so, but I'm worried it's just exposure bias. Profit margins at least seem lower at NPG. (26 vs 38%)
Just paste the URL of the thread into the box at the top and hit the "linear thread view" button below and it will give you a view of the thread with hierarchical replies sorted by how many engagements they got (reposts + favourites + replies).
It's very early days so it doesn't yet show any images, the design is not ideal, not optimised for mobile, etc. But I already find this useful for getting a feel of big threads.
My aim here is to give people a better way to navigate overwhelmingly large threads and to allow for a sort of archive of interesting threads. If we want to make Mastodon into a viable option for having scientific debates (e.g. alternative to peer review), we need some way to make them more accessible to outsiders and to surface the most interesting and relevant content.
So I'm particularly interested in hearing suggestions for features or other ideas on how to display threads in the context of long lasting discussions with some permanence to them.
At the moment it's just a very simple idea, but I have other ideas for how to display threads that are a bit wackier and I'll add these as extra buttons as and when I work on this. I'm also going to see how feasible it is to make this into a bookmarklet so you can just hit the 'render thread' bookmark in your browser and open a tab with this. Should be straightforward.
@jonny@neuralreckoning I’d prefer if most work was client-side or upstream. Per-instance features are kind of annoying, eg coming across mathstodon posts where LaTeX won’t render unless I view them on mathstodon directly. The more the instances diverge, the harder it is for new folks to decide what to join.
Obviously, instances are a great place to experiment. But I just don’t want it to be the endgame…
My music stopped playing, the phone rang, I answered it.
After speaking for a few minutes, I hung up and the music started up again.
It took me a second to realize that the music wasn't coming from my phone, it was coming from my computer.
#KDEConnect is groovy, y'all. It pauses your music when a phone call comes in. (MPRIS-compatible player required, of course, but even mpv on the command line can do that)
What's your favorite reviews of "Three body problem"? Especially ones that focus on discussing the physics - both in terms of depiction of physics and physicists and in terms of how correct the books are?
Preferably of the Netflix series, but I'll also accept those for the books if especially good on discussing the physics.
@vicgrinberg@muellerwhh did you read the later books? I found each a slog (and the sexism in book 2 in particular is 🤢), but the core idea of book 2 is (I think) genius and original, and book 3 is just chock full of outstanding ideas that changed the way I look at the sky. My physics is only from popular physics books but I think I have the basics. (I also 🙄 at the quantum entanglement comms.)
I put together some detailed notes showing how I use Claude and ChatGPT as part of my daily workflow - in this case describing how I used them for a 6 minute side quest to create myself a GeoJSON map of the boundary of the Adirondack Park in upstate New York https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/22/claude-and-chatgpt-case-study/
@simon “I would miss them terribly if they were no longer available to me.” This seems like a good reason to focus on open source, local models, despite their limitations.
(But, as a side note, congrats on llm — the ergonomics are wonderful.)
@albertcardona@jzsimon@weberam2 I love vim, but VSCode and PyCharm both also support column selection so now I’m curious — what crappy editor prompted this micro rant? 😂
i have an opportunity to upgrade from 100 Mb/s home internet to 500 Mb/s for an extra $5/mo or 1 Gb/s for an extra $10/mo. I think 500 Mb is probably worth it but my utility curve is already pretty flat tbh. How much internet can one man possibly consume
@glyph@tim Can Steam actually saturate your bandwidth like that? I’ve found that many centralised services can’t, especially in Australia. (Kudos to Steam if that’s not the case there though.)
Some days I wonder if, quietly, CC0 is actually a bigger success story than the other @creativecommons licenses put together. Not to slight the other licenses! But CC0 is increasingly catalytic in the library, museum, and data spaces.
This also means I must finally share the 3D scan of The Claw from last year's @scipy2023 lightning talks! You can download it in DICOM or ome-@zarr format from FigShare at https://dx.doi.org/10.26180/25264588! 😂🦀