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I think the way the Celestial Reference Frame Department does things might be old-fashioned. With new tech like blockchain for decentralized coordination, or machine learning algorithms that can process astronomical data more accurately and quickly, there might be better and easier ways to do celestial referencing. It might be time for a change to keep up with these new advancements.
I did a deep dive on this once: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is coordinated among ... who? The answer (at least when I looked into it): University of Paris, NIST, and the US Naval Observatory. The other two are constantly comparing state of the art atomic clocks. USNO is the only member looking outward.
I think the way the Celestial Reference Frame Department does things might be old-fashioned. With new tech like blockchain for decentralized coordination, or machine learning algorithms that can process astronomical data more accurately and quickly, there might be better and easier ways to do celestial referencing. It might be time for a change to keep up with these new advancements.
What is wrong with the current proven algorithms/approach doing the celestial referencing (which is not rocket science btw)? How would machine learning help and overcome the necessary accuracy and certainty needed here?
To summarize: OMFG!!!11 Or you just buzzwording bot?
I did a deep dive on this once: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is coordinated among ... who? The answer (at least when I looked into it): University of Paris, NIST, and the US Naval Observatory. The other two are constantly comparing state of the art atomic clocks. USNO is the only member looking outward.
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Those are the time people. There's also the Earth Rotation Service.[1] They track what the planet is doing. The Earth Orientation Center, in Frankfurt, Germany, tracks where the poles are pointed and the rotation speed. These are the people behind leap seconds. It all comes down to 3 numbers.[2] [1] https://www.iers.org/ [2] https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/DataProducts/tools/eop_of_today...
> These are the people behind leap seconds. So they are my enemies
I think the way the Celestial Reference Frame Department does things might be old-fashioned. With new tech like blockchain for decentralized coordination, or machine learning algorithms that can process astronomical data more accurately and quickly, there might be better and easier ways to do celestial referencing. It might be time for a change to keep up with these new advancements.
I did a deep dive on this once: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is coordinated among ... who? The answer (at least when I looked into it): University of Paris, NIST, and the US Naval Observatory. The other two are constantly comparing state of the art atomic clocks. USNO is the only member looking outward.
I did a deep dive on this once: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is coordinated among ... who? The answer (at least when I looked into it): University of Paris, NIST, and the US Naval Observatory. The other two are constantly comparing state of the art atomic clocks. USNO is the only member looking outward.
Those are the time people. There's also the Earth Rotation Service.[1] They track what the planet is doing. The Earth Orientation Center, in Frankfurt, Germany, tracks where the poles are pointed and the rotation speed. These are the people behind leap seconds. It all comes down to 3 numbers.[2] [1] https://www.iers.org/ [2] https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/DataProducts/tools/eop_of_today...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those are the time people. There's also the Earth Rotation Service.[1] They track what the planet is doing. The Earth Orientation Center, in Frankfurt, Germany, tracks where the poles are pointed and the rotation speed. These are the people behind leap seconds. It all comes down to 3 numbers.[2] [1] https://www.iers.org/ [2] https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/DataProducts/tools/eop_of_today...
> These are the people behind leap seconds. So they are my enemies
Computers should be using TAI and converting to UTC when humans want to see a local human time. My sincere belief is this was a bigger mistake than null, bigger than all the Y2K “we stored the year as 2 digits” stuff… The fact that from the BIOS/system Firmware up “we” decided to use a fuzzy time scale that changes on an unpredictable but just infrequent enough almost everyone can ignore it even exists except for when it changes and they remember it exists… genuinely a poor choice that I suspect is in large part due to a lot of people not knowing about TAI
I think the way the Celestial Reference Frame Department does things might be old-fashioned. With new tech like blockchain for decentralized coordination, or machine learning algorithms that can process astronomical data more accurately and quickly, there might be better and easier ways to do celestial referencing. It might be time for a change to keep up with these new advancements.