154988 pts ยท April 22, 2015
I don't think it's to get ahead of that person. Just like with the OpenAI not going IPO, it's to justify them having to slow down because they don't have a viable business model yet and are burning through cash. So, they're not going to slow down because of fundamental problems in the business model, but because their product is sooo dangerous they have. I'll believe him when tech CEOs like him stop spending $$ to fight politicians trying to put in AI regulations.
However, Germany still allows for shitty exploitive things like too-small dolphinariums, such as the one at the Duisburg Zoo. Much of that zoo is great, but they cling onto their horrible dolphinarium in the name of education while providing a shitty environment for the animals and not providing actual good education anyway!
It's also a much different environment. A close colleague works in a research lab. It's leadership are all CCP politicians, running the lab more on political policy than science, and putting heavy heavy pressure on what research is supported, who can get funded to travel, etc... There were many good things at first, especially the funds, but management has made it increasingly difficult for things
There are some countries doing this, but also facing criticism for this. I know some Canadian astronomers were expressing annoyance because their budgets have been cut saying not enough money, but then suddenly a bunch of short term money for *other* country scientists, with no long term plans to make sure there's enough money. If a country doesn't increase their long term funding after recruiting, it will just lead to others already there looking elsewhere anyway, or leaving
I mean sure, but if a child hits an adult and the adult turns around and snaps the kid neck... The horrible actions of Hamas on Oct 7 does not give allowance for even greater atrocities committed in the name of self defense. It was BS when the US did this after 9/11 and it's BS now, and propagated a lot by the US and European media.
Even just today they struck Kharg Island which hosts a massive terminal for their oil export. Trump and the WH's public statements have also made it clear they want to starve off Iran's economy. So, what incentive does Iran have to keeping the Strait open?
The problem is that Trump and them basically decided to go scorched Earth on Iran's oil industry and trade, so if they have no incentive or need to keep the strait open, they'll close it as best they can so everyone else's trade suffers, too.
Oh Lord not this work again, it caused headaches in some astronomy communities. The paper itself has a number of statistical methodology issues with it, and some political issues too. People have re-analyzed that same data with more robust pipelines and found no strong evidence of DMS. Also, while on Earth DMS is linked to life, it has even been detected in a molecular cloud now. Searches for life and bio signatures is very cool, but this work had some major flaws, but big press.
The sound when one of those balls hits someone straight in the head still echoes in my mind
Yes it can be a bit confusing. Planetary nebula have nothing to do with planets, but associated with the end stages of a stars life. This can make it confusing with protoplanet, protostar, protoplanetary disks, etc. Its unfortunately another case where we have kept (very) old terminology that end up causing confusion later on. (Another very prominent example is the stellar classification letters!)
The NYT headline would be "DHS Secretary proposes strong on-site security for election security" or something like that
Within Germany I know at least there are programs people can take to work in historical building restoration and preservation, and there are tracks for people to get training in all sorts of trades skills and specialty skills. In Germany, the demand isn't so small for things like this - the Dom is an extreme example, but many cities and towns have old buildings with stone work, for instance.
But at the same time, Sweden had the biggest selection of lactose free dairy products I've seen in grocery stores!
It absolutely is a grift. He's pushing garbage that has no basis in science, goes for media appearances in places like DailyMail and talks down about other actual scientists about these objects, and uses the press to peddle his name and his books also pushing this junk pseudoscience. Just to be clear: there is nothing wrong with SETI science. But he is not doing science, and he routinely ignores basic comet physics and the works of other actual experts.
I still use Fortran in my work for simulations! Many astronomy codes are still Fortran90 standard, and most major astrochemistry codes are in Fortran in whole or part. It's great for these things!
Unfortunately, much of this is being spurred on by one guy who has the weight of a good looking affiliation, and has decided that his musings are somehow more important than all of the amazing science that is done about interstellar objects. He is doing far more harm than good to that community and its exacerbated by science and normal media outlets that want to clickbait and spin sensational nonsense compared to the excellent exciting science.
The Little Red Dots are very interesting - and they have induced a bit of a wild west of theoretical interpretations and models. This is not a bad thing at all! But it's just worth remembering that the more extreme are often the ones that get the bigger headlines. Some of these models have enough free or unconstrained parameters many things can be 'consistent' with them. For a while there will be A LOT of speculation about them while more data is collected and analyzed.
As someone with a background in star formation research I want to note that how Pop III stars form and what massives they have is HIGHLY uncertain. There are very few observational constraints. Simulations end with masses that depend *greatly* on the assumed physics and setup, with simulations reporting both low-mass and supermassive protostars. These types of black-hole "stars" or dark-matter stars are theoretical constructs, but not a lot of observational evidence.
Year old account, no posts or favorites, and only negative comments posting pro-Israel/anti-Palestinian comments. Alt account? Or....
We've had some discussions about using something like it - I'm disabled and my kid is a running speed demon, so can easily outrun me into danger
And yes, it has become a running joke in the astronomical community about a certain Harvard based astronomer claiming aliens, with quite a number of jokes on Bluesky of predicting when he will claim aliens (then later he made such type of comments to the DailyMail)
The problem with the third parties like the Libertarian and Green parties is they usually run nutjob or horrible people with idiotic ideologies - and I checked and the Keystone Party candidate was a former Libertarian candidate the previous election. Keystone is basically just another Libertarian but party
Katie Mack's The End of Everything may be good! You could also check out Dr. Becky ok YouTube. Both are excellent astronomers and excellent communicators
The behavior of slime molds have been used in fact to model cosmological structures: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04393
Beavers are in the genus Castor, so, one could say "Big brown Castor (BBC) crushes ICE"
Most of the AI facial recognition/identity verification things I have had to use over the past couple of years utterly and miserably fail the moment you have a larger beard. It's like it cannot detect your jawline, so you must have no face.
Hey now, sometimes it's also Reviewer 1 joining in the "fun"! (and sometimes you get back comments that make you go "HUH?? WTF you on??")
Thank you! :)
Course enough
I don't think it's to get ahead of that person. Just like with the OpenAI not going IPO, it's to justify them having to slow down because they don't have a viable business model yet and are burning through cash. So, they're not going to slow down because of fundamental problems in the business model, but because their product is sooo dangerous they have.
I'll believe him when tech CEOs like him stop spending $$ to fight politicians trying to put in AI regulations.
However, Germany still allows for shitty exploitive things like too-small dolphinariums, such as the one at the Duisburg Zoo. Much of that zoo is great, but they cling onto their horrible dolphinarium in the name of education while providing a shitty environment for the animals and not providing actual good education anyway!
It's also a much different environment. A close colleague works in a research lab. It's leadership are all CCP politicians, running the lab more on political policy than science, and putting heavy heavy pressure on what research is supported, who can get funded to travel, etc... There were many good things at first, especially the funds, but management has made it increasingly difficult for things
There are some countries doing this, but also facing criticism for this. I know some Canadian astronomers were expressing annoyance because their budgets have been cut saying not enough money, but then suddenly a bunch of short term money for *other* country scientists, with no long term plans to make sure there's enough money. If a country doesn't increase their long term funding after recruiting, it will just lead to others already there looking elsewhere anyway, or leaving
I mean sure, but if a child hits an adult and the adult turns around and snaps the kid neck... The horrible actions of Hamas on Oct 7 does not give allowance for even greater atrocities committed in the name of self defense. It was BS when the US did this after 9/11 and it's BS now, and propagated a lot by the US and European media.
Even just today they struck Kharg Island which hosts a massive terminal for their oil export. Trump and the WH's public statements have also made it clear they want to starve off Iran's economy. So, what incentive does Iran have to keeping the Strait open?
The problem is that Trump and them basically decided to go scorched Earth on Iran's oil industry and trade, so if they have no incentive or need to keep the strait open, they'll close it as best they can so everyone else's trade suffers, too.
Oh Lord not this work again, it caused headaches in some astronomy communities. The paper itself has a number of statistical methodology issues with it, and some political issues too. People have re-analyzed that same data with more robust pipelines and found no strong evidence of DMS. Also, while on Earth DMS is linked to life, it has even been detected in a molecular cloud now. Searches for life and bio signatures is very cool, but this work had some major flaws, but big press.
The sound when one of those balls hits someone straight in the head still echoes in my mind
Yes it can be a bit confusing. Planetary nebula have nothing to do with planets, but associated with the end stages of a stars life. This can make it confusing with protoplanet, protostar, protoplanetary disks, etc. Its unfortunately another case where we have kept (very) old terminology that end up causing confusion later on. (Another very prominent example is the stellar classification letters!)
The NYT headline would be "DHS Secretary proposes strong on-site security for election security" or something like that
Within Germany I know at least there are programs people can take to work in historical building restoration and preservation, and there are tracks for people to get training in all sorts of trades skills and specialty skills. In Germany, the demand isn't so small for things like this - the Dom is an extreme example, but many cities and towns have old buildings with stone work, for instance.
But at the same time, Sweden had the biggest selection of lactose free dairy products I've seen in grocery stores!
It absolutely is a grift. He's pushing garbage that has no basis in science, goes for media appearances in places like DailyMail and talks down about other actual scientists about these objects, and uses the press to peddle his name and his books also pushing this junk pseudoscience. Just to be clear: there is nothing wrong with SETI science. But he is not doing science, and he routinely ignores basic comet physics and the works of other actual experts.
I still use Fortran in my work for simulations! Many astronomy codes are still Fortran90 standard, and most major astrochemistry codes are in Fortran in whole or part. It's great for these things!
Unfortunately, much of this is being spurred on by one guy who has the weight of a good looking affiliation, and has decided that his musings are somehow more important than all of the amazing science that is done about interstellar objects. He is doing far more harm than good to that community and its exacerbated by science and normal media outlets that want to clickbait and spin sensational nonsense compared to the excellent exciting science.
The Little Red Dots are very interesting - and they have induced a bit of a wild west of theoretical interpretations and models. This is not a bad thing at all! But it's just worth remembering that the more extreme are often the ones that get the bigger headlines. Some of these models have enough free or unconstrained parameters many things can be 'consistent' with them. For a while there will be A LOT of speculation about them while more data is collected and analyzed.
As someone with a background in star formation research I want to note that how Pop III stars form and what massives they have is HIGHLY uncertain. There are very few observational constraints. Simulations end with masses that depend *greatly* on the assumed physics and setup, with simulations reporting both low-mass and supermassive protostars. These types of black-hole "stars" or dark-matter stars are theoretical constructs, but not a lot of observational evidence.
Year old account, no posts or favorites, and only negative comments posting pro-Israel/anti-Palestinian comments. Alt account? Or....
We've had some discussions about using something like it - I'm disabled and my kid is a running speed demon, so can easily outrun me into danger
And yes, it has become a running joke in the astronomical community about a certain Harvard based astronomer claiming aliens, with quite a number of jokes on Bluesky of predicting when he will claim aliens (then later he made such type of comments to the DailyMail)
The problem with the third parties like the Libertarian and Green parties is they usually run nutjob or horrible people with idiotic ideologies - and I checked and the Keystone Party candidate was a former Libertarian candidate the previous election. Keystone is basically just another Libertarian but party
Katie Mack's The End of Everything may be good! You could also check out Dr. Becky ok YouTube. Both are excellent astronomers and excellent communicators
The behavior of slime molds have been used in fact to model cosmological structures: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04393
Beavers are in the genus Castor, so, one could say "Big brown Castor (BBC) crushes ICE"
Most of the AI facial recognition/identity verification things I have had to use over the past couple of years utterly and miserably fail the moment you have a larger beard. It's like it cannot detect your jawline, so you must have no face.
Hey now, sometimes it's also Reviewer 1 joining in the "fun"! (and sometimes you get back comments that make you go "HUH?? WTF you on??")
Thank you! :)
Course enough