michaelzingale.bsky.social
computational astrophysicist
open source tool developer
professor
blower upper of stars
star wars fan
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https://zingale.github.io
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this must be his doctor:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi...
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tatooines
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was it UCSC?
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you're not really computing until `du -hs` returns something with the the "P" suffix anyway...
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ohh... I have questions!
why did my code crash?
what do you mean I'm out of disk space?!?!?
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It's amazing to look back through history and discover that this was prophesized back in 1981.
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Congrats
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NSF budget would close down one of LIGO's sites. This would be, to put it lightly, a catastrophe for gravitational wave astronomy.
"In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites
and will support a reduced level for technology development."
bsky.app/profile/hast...
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Worked for Kepler
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Young Frankenstein!
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I have friends everywhere
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oh, forgot to tag @networkx.bsky.social
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I don't know much about that, but this opens up any of the methods in NetworkX for nucleosynthesis.
The cycles is interesting, because for our X-ray burst work, we can read the simulation data from Castro into pynucastro and now pipe it to NetworkX for find different cycles after hot-CNO breakout.
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Dwight Schrute disapproves of this message
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we've steadily been increasing. I think we need to make sure that students know that grad school is competitive and there are fewer positions than there used to be, and instead emphasize the problem solving and technical skills that can transfer to other fields once they graduate.
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that's the fun part, no one needs to know anything anymore -- just ask AI!
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He figured out Phase 2
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yep I know. The fundamental question I wonder about is "why even bother go to college if you are just going to cheat?". Don't people want to actually learn?
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I'm thinking of putting a clause in my syllabus that you might be asked to explain your work in person if there is question about AI use.
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I worry about this too -- I give an automatic extension for homeworks before I post solutions. But I am not sure that's working well.
and I much prefer homeworks to exams for grades but ChatGPT makes that hard these days.
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I think I'll order a tab...
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especially when this is what the wheels are like these days:
blog.neunmalsechs.de/2025/01/15/r...
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and in neutron stars they move at about one-half the speed of light!
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with a name like "van der Waals", you are guaranteed to have enhanced interactions
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