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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Please come and join us -- you can hear what some of our member astronomers are up to in a series of quick, informal presentations. We expect to hear about international travel to observe the recent total solar eclipse, some telescope hardware hacks, new astro software, and images and observations,

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San Jose Astronomical Association @sjastronomy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🔭 What have you been up to, astronomically speaking? SJAA’s Member Astronomy Show & Tell is Sept. 26! Members can share telescope builds, favorite astrophotos, processing tips, astro-travel stories, eclipse observations & other astronomy projects. #bayarea

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

that was a fun moment of time in graduate school. quite proud of it as well!

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 08/07/2026

PyTorch 2.13 is here: 3,328 commits from 526 contributors, with updates across FlexAttention, CuTeDSL, nn.LinearCrossEntropyLoss, torchcomms, FSDP2, Python 3.15 wheels, ROCm, Arm, and XPU. Read the blog and register for the July 22 live Q&A: pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-2-13-relea…

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 29/05/2026

Wondering what it's like to attend a PyTorch Conference? Attendees of the first ever PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 in Paris share a glimpse into what it's like... Watch the highlight reel on YouTube: youtu.be/0lKdvXZkS-4?... Will we see you at PyTorchCon China & PyTorchCon North America this year?

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What PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 Was Really Like – Official PyTorchCon EU Highlights | Paris

YouTube video by PyTorch

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The community around PyTorch never ceases to amaze. 3000 commits from 500 developers over 2 months.

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 13/05/2026

PyTorch 2.12 introduces up to 100x faster batched linalg.eigh on CUDA, torch.accelerator.Graph, Microscaling quantization support in torch.export.save, and fused Adagrad. Join the live release Q&A on May 20 at 10 am PT. pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-2-12-relea… #PyTorch #OpenSourceAI

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is how Cory Doctorow defines “enshittification.” Where do you see it nowadays? Where do you think it’ll pop up in the near future?

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San Jose Astronomical Association @sjastronomy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

PUBLIC TALK: March 7, 2026, 7:30 pm Natasha Abrams is a 5th year astrophysics PhD student at UC Berkeley and will discuss the techniques we use to discover and characterize black holes and explore the frontiers of astrophysics! 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The date on this is wrong. This is september 6th

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

How do we hope to study exoplanets next to stars that are 10,000 times brighter than the planet we are interested in? Join us this Saturday in San Jose to hear from Dr. Phil Hinz, Director of the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. Meetup: www.meetup.com/sj-astronomy... #astronomy #telescope

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 05/07/2025

Why? Why don't they know? Whose responsibility is it to ensure they know, how are those mechanisms failing, and what can we do to repair or replace them? Those are the questions those who believe in journalism as public service should be asking ourselves. Because 48% is a failing grade.

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Poll Shows Public Knows Little About Trump’s Ugly Megabill

The battle to define this incredibly significant legislation has just begun, particularly for Democrats.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.

It's uncanny.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

An alien visitor is whizzing through our solar system at VERY high speed! Called 3I/ATLAS, I have everything we know about this odd object so far. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/another-al... 🧪 🔭

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Another alien visitor to our solar system!

3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object seen zipping through our neighborhood

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Every day Democrats need to make it clear that practically everything that sucks in American life is the result of the Republicans. They aren’t your friends or colleagues or just folks on the other side of the aisle during a polite dispute. They are evil motherfuckers who are on your enemies.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

4/ A new tax break for coal companies! So the tax incentives for wind and solar are GONE, and the coal industry is getting NEW tax incentives. It's official policy now to to not just deny global warming exists - but to actively make it WORSE.

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

if you can't make it in person, this talk (and others) will be available at www.youtube.com/@sj-astronom...

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San Jose Astronomical Association's Live Streams, Recorded Events, Tutorials, etc.

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Come join us (in person or online) July 12th to learn about how Dr. Phil Hinz and his team in Santa Cruz use hyper-fast reactive optics on the world's largest telescopes to pick the faint traces of planets out from the overwhelming glare of the bright stars we find them right up next to.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Trump poses as the Pope in full holy garments and gets a pass. Obama puts on a tan suit and they lose their frigging minds. See how that works?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/05/2025

It's a cult, and like most cults is designed to make you deny the reality that is the rest of the world.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is an important thread. As someone who has been kept alive since I was a teenager by the advances of medical sciences, not crystals and positive thinking, I couldn't agree with Maria more.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

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San Jose Astronomical Association @sjastronomy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

PUBLIC TALK: May 10, 2025, 7:30 pm Professor Bryan Gaensler will explain how fast radio bursts were discovered, why they’re so enigmatic, and how they could be key to understanding some of the fundamental properties of the Universe. 🔭🧪 Sign up: www.meetup.com/sj-astronomy...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 06/03/2025

This is such a major problem that I realized during the Obama Care vs Affordable Care Act (ACA) conversations

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Whomever is advising the Democrats right now is criminally bad at their job. The notion that they can meme their way out of fascism is truly incredible.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Big deal—after correcting, it turns out that moderate candidates do not perform better than extreme candidates in general elections. Kudos to Andy, Dan, and Adam for updating a key question in political science

Andy Hall &
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In 2018, Dan Thompson and I published a paper in the APSR estimating large vote share and turnout effects for the nomination of more-extreme House candidates in the 2006--2014 period. Recently, Adam Bonica showed us an important imbalance in the data from our paper that makes us doubt our findings. We've written an update to the paper explaining this issue here:
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We have four main takeaways from this exercise:
(1) The evidence in our sample from 2006--2014 that more-extreme nominees cause large changes in a party's vote share or share of general-election turnout is far weaker than we previously thought, and should not be relied on.
(2) Because our sample of years does not provide a sufficiently large, stable effect on vote share, the design is unsuitable for understanding whether there is an underlying relationship

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

A highlight from grad school was the paper on Slacking and Moores Law that Jeremy, Casey, Todd, and I put together with the singular JJ Charfman while procrastinating on other work.

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

That was a fun paper! Definitely a highlight of grad school!

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

At NVIDIA’s GTC event this week. looking forward to learning a lot of misc stuff about AI and HPC. Excited to see folks i haven’t seen in ages. Less excited about the crowds.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Since the entire national media is doing "Reverse Emails" all over again, here's a brief sample of the things that should be front page, above-the-fold, five-alarm fire news:

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Absolutely wild that the overwhelming media takeaway from this report has been Biden's age rather than Trump's criminality www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/u...

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

I’m completely bereft of fucks about Biden’s age when this is who he’s up against.

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

My colleague Elias Ellison talking about CudaGraph at the PyTorch conference. #PyTorch #PyTorchConference

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Mergen Nachin just publicly announced our new Executoch runtime for edge devices. #PyTorch #Edge #ai

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

My colleague Peng Wu sharing exciting compiler improvements in PyTorch #PyTorch #AI #Compilers

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

PyTorch Conference - excited to see what the community has been building together in 2023

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Caught some early morning light on a flight east recently. East bay city lights. Wall eye stereo pair. Look "through" the screen at the wall behind till you see three images. The middle image will be 3d.

Pair of images from a plane, early sunrise in the background, noctilucent clouds in the distance, low lying semi-transparent cloud deck over a city scape below.

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Chris Gottbrath @gottbrath.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Messier 8, Lagoon Nebula. Rough initial RGB processing. Some saturated stars, and hot pixels. Approx 30 minutes of exposure time with a 20 in, f/4.5 scope in Siding Spring Australia via iTelescope.

A red and blue gaseous nebula in space, near a cluster of bright stars. Dark lanes of dense gas cross in front from the top left to the middle right.

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