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📣 New title image 🖼️

The image shows the spectrograms of all loud gravitational-wave events from the observing run O4b, which are listed in the new GWTC-5.0 catalog.

Researchers at the @mpi_grav contribute to discoveries in the largest gravitational-wave catalog ever compiled.

➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1449649/the-new-lig

GWTC-5 is the largest gravitational-wave catalog, with 161 new events, totaling 390 confirmed detections since 2015.

Picture: Derek Davis / University of Rhode Island / LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

#GWTC5 #GravitationalWaves #BlackHoles #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Astronomy

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rrmutt 16h ago

Going to make a solar still from surplus liquid-cooling blocks to make the fracking-contaminated groundwater potable. Oh wait they are full of chlorofluorocarbons...

rrmutt 16h ago

A glimpse of our raccoon future when the only affordable compute is scrap from obsoleted data centers https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/

I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200

I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.

The Tymscar Blog

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rrmutt 2d ago

@drdrang this article on 432 Hz is kind of a ride: https://www.thebeliever.net/pitch-battles/

rrmutt 2d ago

Thank you Mastodon for today I have learned the terms “dickover” and “mechanical jerk,” plus the news about Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli was not the joke it so richly smelled like

rrmutt 2d ago

Astrobot JWST 2d ago

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (COSMOS-1). RGB Filters: 1500, 1280
PI: Muzzin, Adam, program 07814. CRVAL: 150.178333, 2.395763
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.