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> Therefore, we’re asking everyone, including Jason and me, to refrain from using our company Basecamp or HEY to discuss societal politics at work effective immediately. https://wo…

The system prompts for various Claude models are publicly documented by anthropic: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts

For local use, this Python library can generate SVGs with QR codes: https://github.com/lincolnloop/python-qrcode

The astral team is definitely doing great work, and it's wonderful that these tools are permissively licensed, but what happens if astral doesn't work out as a business?

One technique that is straightforward to understand is that folks have done "time-slide" analyses for many years - i.e. offsetting one detector's data in time - to understand what …

To those focusing on the URL’s TLD rather than the content: > This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.

Counterpoint: heroin

If you got a fever tomorrow, would that be statistically insignificant?

The paper describing the event is available to the public at https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P170104/public The instrument data of this event is also available to the public at https://l…

While there are many compact binary systems in the universe continuously emitting gravitational waves for a very long time, LIGO is only able to detect the most violent waves emitt…

Thanks for the links. I find it unfortunate that often in science (and especially with the LIGO data) much is written about what could possibly be lurking in the data but isn't act…

> 2/3 LIGO detections imply one of the merging pair of black holes should be a naked singularity. Where did you get this impression? All of the LIGO results are consistent with "st…

I like the table that 18F uses to distinguish between the federal pay scale levels[0]. I.e. Comparisons like > Your supervisor reviews your work from an overall standpoint to ensur…

Just a heads up: the authors of the paper this article is talking about are not part of the LIGO collaboration. They ran their own analysis on the publicly available data.

At least in science/engineering: not really. Faculty positions are saturated, only one in three PhDs will get hired as an assistant professor, let alone receive tenure. One could a…

What? All of my fellowships/assistantships as a PhD student have always been considered taxable income.

I'm not so surprised that there are no GR deviations in these early days of detections that are just becoming significant over the instrument noise. GW physicists are hard at work …

The waveforms are predicted by our knowledge of general relativity; specifically what the gravitational wave profile would be for two objects of certain masses spiraling into each …

For this particular event, see https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW151226/ , near the bottom of the page