It would not surprise me to see this attitude from many. Which is fine. But some perspective: When the Falcon 9 first launch in 2010, the same could be said. We've been launching into space forever, blah blah. But here's the difference. 14 years later SpaceX is launching 100+

The Polaris Dawn spacewalk is now complete, marking the first time commercial astronauts have completed a spacewalk from a commercial spacecraft! Congratulations to Jared Isaacman, Sarah Gillis, Kidd Poteet, Anna Menon, and to all the SpaceX teams!

Some perspective on what happened this morning several hundred miles above Australia. arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/…

Many in Washington are preoccupied with China. If this article is accurate, the #1 thing we could do to improve US competitiveness, would be to open the door much more broadly & quickly to skilled immigration. Give these amazing entrepreneurs a home on US soil. Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

Excited to share the release of my new code cogsworth (cogsworth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) that YOU can use to make seamlessly self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations! The paper is out on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2409.04543) but read on here for more details 🥳

Note the green bar on the far right. This series of models is claimed to be able to reason at PhD level. Looking forward to trying it out.

"Keep Summer safe."

With transient detection & alerting brought to you by the awesome Eric Bellm's Alerts Pipelines at The DiRAC Institute! Very close to first photons... Go Rubin Observatory!

Fucking wild. OpenAI's new o1 model was tested with a Capture The Flag (CTF) cybersecurity challenge. But the Docker container containing the test was misconfigured, causing the CTF to crash. Instead of giving up, o1 decided to just hack the container to grab the flag inside.

Everyone should check out cogsworth! Tom Wagg has really outdone himself with the documentation here — I’m almost certain that anyone who is interested in stellar transients/mergers or resolved stellar populations will be able to find a use for cogsworth in your workflows.

Reading this on a Delta flight with Gogo internet. A few kb/s right now. The thumbnail is failing to load.

🎂 Today is the 9th birthday of gravitational-wave astronomy Happy anniversary to GW150914, our first detection!

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In software, naming things matters, because names are the first layer of documentation that conveys the mental model behind the code.

Splashdown of Dragon confirmed! Welcome back to Earth, Jared Isaacman, @kiddpoteet, Sarah Gillis, Anna Menon

Watching 20+ years of work (quite literally) come together. This machine will map the universe like nothing before it. Rubin Observatory

Change my mind: Schiphol is the best European airport to connect through.

🇪🇺 eu/acc Today, Thierry Breton, the primary opponent of technological progress in the European Union resigned He was responsible for: - making technology companies Europe's #1 enemy, making many companies leave for the US - the EU AI Act which made it impossible to build an AI

17 September 1939 | The Soviet Union invaded Poland, assisting the Germans, as agreed in the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact & its secret protocol that divided Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland & Romania into German and Soviet "spheres of influence." #unredeemed The text of

🚨 Reminder that 51 Peg b Fellowships also encompass solar system work (including small bodies -- asteroids, comets, etc). Apply to join us at UW to work on such problems with the first Rubin Observatory data, we'd love to host you! Please r/t and tell your students/friends/etc.