Mondays, ammirite?

A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results. Accepted as part of the NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track 2025 🔭 🤖 www.cosmicai.org/news/introdu...

Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx... @stephajuneau.bsky.social @niall2.bsky.social

I hate to go there but we need to keep going there. Imagine if Biden mentioned in a press availability that he had no idea who from his admin had ordered pause of missions and ammo to Ukraine. Alex Thompson would be popping out 4 posts (stories) a day and Tapper/CNN would swarm on it for days.

A view of the Boston Massacre marker as seen from a window of the Old State House. #Boston #FreedomTrail

I remember Battlestar Galactica articulated the logic best...

Downtown Los Angeles, 1937

🍕Evil Austin Pizza Reviews #2: Little Deli🍕 A lot of y'all love this place, so check out how I think it stacks up in 2025 open.substack.com/pub/evilmopa...

Thank you @stephenking.bsky.social, @mikeflanaganfilm.com, and @markhamillofficial.bsky.social for two of the best hours of reflecting on living. The Life of Chuck is an absolute masterpiece of the joys and pains of humanity, science, art, and love.

The U.S. Mint has issued a quarter-dollar coin celebrating the life and work of the codiscoverer of dark matter in galaxies, Vera Rubin. buff.ly/Iyog7o9 . . #astronomy #quarter #verarubin #womeninscience #darkmatter #collectable

It really feels like we don’t talk enough about how much COVID has fucked up our politics, our culture, and all of us personally. It’s not surprising considering how absolutely averse this country is to confronting trauma, but sometimes it still needs to be said.

At the @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social conference with @thenrao.bsky.social, talking about #ai and #astronomy. #science #artificialintelligence #astrophysics #space #machinelearning @utaustin.bsky.social #neuralnetworks

Mood youtu.be/RBY7aO5fG8A?...

I had to travel all the way to Kanagawa, Japan, to find it, but at long last...

Spring has sprung this weekend in Austin.

Happy birthday Suzanne. We all miss you https://gunmemorial.org/2024/06/19/suzanne-bailey

I think it’s really important we identify the companies that are doing the right thing and reward them with our business.

Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov" The national archives is still doing its job for now.

Data Science Engineering problem #324. So far this year, I'm building the 32nd version of Python and PyTorch. There is a reason AI will not take over the world: package incompatibilities resulted in the digital crusades based on a schism between AI's over the holiest version of Pytorch and CUDA.

in memory of Marge.

Rep. Suozzi: Trump made big promises in his campaign. Don’t let his talk about Greenland or Panama be a distraction from his original promises.

Air BNB is offering free, temporary housing to those impacted by the wildfires. Please share with your networks: news.airbnb.com/airbnb-org-o...

Teladoc is offering no-cost medical care advice 855-225-5032 for anyone experiencing burns, smoke inhalation or anyone who has medical questions related to these wildfires. Obviously if you are experiencing a life threatening emergency please call 911.

My father was a smoke jumper and a firefighter, and the best advice I can give is to do everything you can to keep yourself safe and not be a further strain on emergency services. This means as you said, staying off the roads, pay attention to evac alerts, and be ready to leave ASAP.

It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.

Secondary to the people’s wellbeing but still scarry…https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-07/getty-villa-museum-catching-fire-lafd-says

Break out your big hat for the weekend!

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GO CRAZY, LONGHORNS, GO CRAZY!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Here's a song your local radio station ain't playin' this holiday season: Christmas With the Devil! youtu.be/KneOdEDwDEc?...

I just finished this weeks SNL and now I can admit that all I want for Christmas is the return of Sabado Gigante.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Also valid for those on Jan NSF panels!

Hannibal Lecter had a more modest security detail than Luigi Mangione

Direct government healthcare for all would be even cheaper because we wouldn't have to pay private third parties to adjudicate claims.

Why don't we call it DOPE (Department of Personal Enrichment) instead of DOGE

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

There's no party quite like an Austin City Council runoff Here's my District 7 Candidate Forum, featuring challengers Gary Bledsoe and Mike Siegel 🗳️ 👇Check it out here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/evilmopa...

When I left Twitter 18 months ago I had severe withdrawal from trending topics and not knowing every single little thing happening in the news. But then I discovered that I still hear about everything I need to know, and that NOT hearing about stuff that does not matter is so so liberating.

And here is some ultra cool results, though further investigation is required. The most detailed map of the GWB using MeerKAT has been made, and there's this interesting feature that appears - Anisotropy (though, could be stats uncertainty too). Non-isotropic features = interesting cosmology!

For those who celebrate 🤘

The spirit of Black Friday in this house in one photo.

BRING BACK THE AUSTIN HOLIDAY PARADE

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention