iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Leo C. Stein @duetosymmetry.com · 24/04/2024

🧪🔭 Potential electromagnetic counterpart to #S240422ed detected with Magellan's Clay telescope? GCN: gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/36... (for context, see quote skeet). ~Steinn on the bad site: m_i~23 at d~213Mpc is M_i~ -14 IF associated with nearby (in projection) galaxy => L_bol~10^40 - kilonova range

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GCN - Circulars - 36267 - LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240422ed: Magellan Detection of a Potential Electromagnetic Counterpart

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

A new space opera trilogy from James S.A. Corey?!? Sign me the fuck up

Cover of The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey, author of The Expanse

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Wait what I'm already following @abraham.bsky.social is here and I'm just learning about this now?

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

It's probably pretty stable if left to its own devices, and I'm guessing an impact large enough to fully separate the two would just blow apart whichever one was hit (asteroids aren't the hardest things, basically balls of gravel) Now, with the right rocket you could probably push them apart...

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I haven't received many crackpot emails yet, but this has to be a top tier one, right? It's amazing

Hello again Physicists in Illinois,

I've been holding off. But despite recent world events, the danger from AI continues to grow. Very few people could follow the science here. You guys can, and you need to hear the rest of this sooner rather than later – just in case:

If Johann Zöllner and Wilhelm Weber were correct. And Catholic Church style demons actually can access a 4 th dimension of space. Then those demons could locate, spy on, and destroy AI, by coming in from the Kaluza dimension. (Which is probably how they possess people too.)

Exorcists talk to demons every day. And the International Association of Exorcists (AIE) is located in Rome:

https://www.aieinternational.org/

But there is another place located close to you:

https://popeleo13institute.org/

If the situation with AI gets bad, you guys could go to the AIE in Rome, or maybe to this Pope Leo place in Illinois.

Working with an exorcist, you should be able to talk to demons that are possessing people, and ask the demons for help against AI. (I am too old and too sick to go there myself.)

Whether or not there is a religious aspect to those demons is questionable. Zöllner never mentions that. He just considers them to be a unique life form. But let's assume that all of the religious stuff is real too, and the demons actually do work for Satan.

You probably do not have anything to fear. Most likely, neither God nor the Devil wants AI to completely destroy humanity. The demons will probably be expecting you. And they should be receptive to what you are asking.

Bottom line: Demons can destroy AI. But somebody needs to ask them.

Hugh

P.S. I have included a Suggestive Evidence attachment and a book. You do not need to read either one to get the main idea of these emails. But they do explain part of why I have been more worried about AI killing us, than another scientist would be.

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

We do things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy

Boxer meme where the boxer starts by saying "ok I'm gonna compute something no one has computed before" but then regrets their decision and says "damn, maybe there's a reason no one has computed this"

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Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Jupyter notebook v7 apparently has support for real time collaboration and a native dark mode! jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/no...

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New features in Notebook 7 — Jupyter Notebook 7.0.4 documentation

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Gravitational waves were first detected by LIGO OTD in 2015, 100 years after they were predicted by Einstein. The discovery, announced the following February, marked the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy. 🧪 🔭 Figures: LIGO

A plot showing detector responses to gravitational waves from the GW150914 event. On the left is the Hanford, Washington data. On the right is the data from the Livingston, Louisiana site.

Plots of strain vs time for detectors at LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, and the combined signals.

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

I'm very thankful most of my coursework should carry over from my masters, my complaint is largely that most major fellowships (ex: GRFP) don't account for students doing terminal masters programs before PhDs Also, the large increase in undergrad to PhD student ratio hurts underprivileged students

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Better statistics would definitely help, but with how fast undergraduate astro class sizes are increasing relative to PhD spots, more students are going to have to pursue a master's because they didn't get in anywhere for a PhD, then reapply for PhDs after their masters, making this more common too

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Same 🙃 I didn't apply for NSF GRFP during my master's degree because I had no idea if I'd even be in a PhD to use it let alone what I'd use it for, and now that I am in a PhD program I can no longer apply because "I have completed 2 years of grad school"

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Ava Polzin @avapolzin.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Since it's already fall(!), wanted to share the site where I've been compiling open source astro teaching materials -- e.g., textbooks, lecture notes, visualizations: astroteaching.github.io Pretty piecemeal to now, but would love to link to any other resources not already included here :) 🧪 🔭

astroteaching.github.io

Resources for Astrophysics Pedagogy · Resources for Astrophysics Pedagogy

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

ddɐ sıɥʇ uo ʇuɐʇɹodɯı sʎɐʍlɐ sı ʎʇılıqıssǝɔɔ∀

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

¿ɹǝpun uʍop ʎlısɐǝ ǝɹoɯ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ os sıɥʇ ǝʞıl ǝdʎʇ ǝʍ plnoɥS

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Alex Ji @alexji.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

"carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: what if it's actually meat"

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

NEW PAPER: I have discovered that up to half of all black holes that shred a star "burp" material years after the initial event and turn on in radio!!! No one was expecting this, and we don't really understand why this might be! 🤩🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2308.13595 🧵

arxiv.org

Ubiquitous Late Radio Emission from Tidal Disruption Events

We present radio observations of 23 optically-discovered tidal disruption events (TDEs) on timescales of about 500-3200 days post-discovery. We detect 9 new TDEs that did not have detectable radio...

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Sounds like you need to get off of Slack and back to exercising

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Does multiplayer still work and have players? I've been thinking about getting it again but it'd be for the online play

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

If you didn't find more new questions than ones you answered, did you really science?

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

The Titanfall series is underrated as Hell Mechanics (all of it: running, shooting, climbing, etc) were amazing, weapons were very well balanced, oh and the giant mech robots of course

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

Dang Still, no way to recursively generate the code using another language? I've barely ever touched regex so I wouldn't know

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

for team1 in teams: for team2 in teams: if team1 != team2: print(f"#{team1}v{team2}") Copy and paste

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

Not to mention their evil cousins: honeydew

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

All of New York right now (me included):

Kelly from the office saying "Yeah, I have lots of questions. Number one: how dare you?"

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Those that didn't help cook (me included) literally volunteered to clean and told the cooks to go chill on the couch when they offered to help with cleanup

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

My dude, everyone in the group was more than physically and financially capable, we just don't have the countertop space for 24 hands and none of the dishes were super complicated

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

I just moved into this apartment and met these roommates in person for the first time last week, but they said this is a fairly regular occurrence (once every 1-2 weeks)

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Literally just last night in my apartment my 3 roommates and I had 8 friends over (so a dozen of us) where we pitched in to help cook a big meal for everyone This that couldn't/didn't help cook at least cleaned up after

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

Like >75% of conversations I have at parties are cool outer space facts and I've made several new friends doing that

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Whoops, accidentally got the two links switched around, my bad

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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Catching up on last night's gravitational-wave candidate S230731an If real, its source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 100 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S23073… GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/34303 gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/34306 Rating 🦉🌄🍦

Updated sky localization. 90% area 600 sq deg

Updated three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 1.0 Gpc

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Hi, if you join Astrosky (bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jcoy7v3a2t…) and sign up in the description, these will be seen by astronomers on here Then adding a 🔭 emoji will put it in the astronomy feed bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jcoy7v3a2t…

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Was the pitcher Turanga Leela?

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

Ah, he has Tony Hawk syndrome

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

@xkcd.com did the calculation for a "What if?" question what-if.xkcd.com/73 I particularly love the comparison that a supernova at 1AU is 1 billion times brighter than a nuclear bomb detonated right over your eyeball

what-if.xkcd.com

Lethal Neutrinos

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

I'm like 99% sure I killed dozens of those things in Fallout 4

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

My undergrad advisor was one of the nicest people I've ever met, he loved his job in every way shape and form and everything related to astronomy In the 3 years I worked with him, I only saw him get angry about 2 things: being department chair, and the stupid negative sign in the magnitude equation

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

I'm not normally one to scream "ReAd ThE bOoKs" but the ones that the series is based off of are absolutely fantastic and probably my favorite book series ever. I'm currently on book 7, Persepolis Rising (the first one that the show never got to) Foundation books also gets an honorable shout too

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Not trying to take away from any of the actual content/validity of the paper, but it really made me appreciate sectioning, legible figure axes, <1.5" margins, and 1-1.5 spacing At least they did go into detail about the material production, presumably since they're confident in its reproducability

Pirates of the Caribbean's Admiral Norrington telling Jack Sparrow he's "without a doubt the worst formatted paper I've ever read" to which Jack responds "but you have read me"

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 22/07/2023

There really is an xkcd for everything

Three similar boxes of cereal, except the rightmost one has an "asbestos free" label attached. The comment at the bottom says "I hate whatever marketer first realized you could do this"

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Looks like Dave Charbonneau has had enough of M dwarfs ;) #TOE3

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Turns out my local theater is showing Oppenheimer in a few minutes AND has new reclining seats

A ticket to a 7:30 showing to Oppenheimer with legs on a reclining chair in the background

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