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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is gyoto. Gyoto is a framework for computing geodesics in curved space-times. The gyoto utility program uses this framework to compute images of astronomical objects in the vicinity of compact objects (e.g. black-holes). Such images are distorted by strong gravitational lensing. The gyoto program takes a scenery description in XML format, computes this scenery using relativistic ray-tracing,
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I spoke to Chris Stokel-Walker for Scientific American about whether researchers can use generative AI, especially large language models, to replace human participants.

My short answer: no. My long answer:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-human-research-participants-these-scientists-see-risks/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is mocassin. mocassin is a fully 3D or 2D photoionisation and dust radiative transfer code which employs a Monte Carlo approach to the transfer of radiation through media of arbitrary geometry and density distribution. It was originally developed for the modelling of photoionised regions like HII regions and planetary nebulae and has since expanded and been applied to a
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is inhomog. The inhomog library calculates average cosmological expansion. This particular package contains an example front end program that uses the biscale_partition routines of the inhomog library, illustrating effective scale factor evolution in a universe with a T^3 spatial section that is divided into two complementary domains. The inhomog library provides Raychaudhuri
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is splash. This (formerly SUPERSPHPLOT) is a visualisation tool for output from (astrophysical) simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method in one, two and three dimensions. It is written in Fortran 90 and can utilise the PGPLOT graphics subroutine library to do the actual plotting. It is based around a command-line menu structure but utilises the
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is mpgrafic. mpgrafic produces initial conditions files for N-body simulations of cosmological large-scale structure formation. It is a free-licensed, MPI-parallelised, rewritten version of Ed Bertschinger's grafic-1 program, producing output files in the grafic format.
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