Galaxy Map

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The first accurate and detailed maps of the Milky Way and ways to visualize them, including VR.
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Galaxy Map6d ago

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@JohnBarentine/116296832763875772

Ah. A Nature article that I can actually read. I still don't understand why scientists continue to submit their papers to companies like Nature or Elsevier which hoard vast amounts of research behind expensive pay walls. Can anyone explain?

Galaxy MapMar 15

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@radiotelescoop/116232142442954456

I was kept so busy yesterday that I did not realize there was a photographer! Hurray. You can view the HI4PI VR world here:

https://horizon.meta.com/world/861023933332578/?hwsh=whV7CXalho

Galaxy MapMar 6
JA WestenbergMar 6
Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."
Galaxy MapMar 2
ESOMar 2

A cosmic hawk and its starry eyasses 🐦

What looks like a hawk spanning its wings above massive newly born stars is the RCW 36 nebula.

Now, a team of astronomers has used, yes, the HAWK-I instrument on our VLT to study the very dim stars called brown dwarfs hidden in the nebula and how they form: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2609a/

📷 ESO/A. R. G. do Brito do Vale et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

Galaxy MapFeb 27
I've started experimenting with VR development in VRChat using the Unity SDK. If you want to friend me, my VRChat id is kevinjardine.
Galaxy MapFeb 23

I'm trying to reduce the time I spend doom scrolling. I realize Trump is evil and many of you loathe US tech companies. But I do not need to be reminded of that every minute I visit a social network. It gets me down and even wastes my time.

I just want to read about science and tech news. This is turning out to be much harder than I had anticipated, especially on Mastodon, which does not seem to have a default feed just for the people I follow.

So you may see me less often here.

Galaxy MapFeb 23
On my Home feed I am seeing people I don't follow - not just boosts, but original posts. I'm assuming that I am misunderstanding something. On Mastodon, how can I get a feed of people that I follow?
Show threadGalaxy MapFeb 19
Not that I'm any better. I use TypeScript and Python, both of which borrow a few functional programming ideas from Lisp but are at heart just versions of Fortran.
Show threadGalaxy MapFeb 19

Even John Backus, the creator of Fortran, roasted computer scientists for sticking with low level imperative languages and advocated moving to functional programming.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359576.359579

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs: Communications of the ACM: Vol 21, No 8

Conventional programming languages are growing ever more enormous, but not stronger. Inherent defects at the most basic level cause them to be both fat and weak: their primitive word-at-a-time style of programming inherited from their common ancestor—...

Communications of the ACM
Galaxy MapFeb 18

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@cdegroot/116086771614712320

Always nice to see a book about an interesting programming language. Although I'd argue that Haskell is the "greatest programming language", no doubt that Lisp was the father of the functional programming languages and has been very influential.