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• Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System

  by gammarator on 7/3/2025, 3:19 AM with 171 comments

• Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy

  by gammarator on 6/19/2025, 11:17 PM with 67 comments

• Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request

  by gammarator on 5/31/2025, 2:33 PM with 4 comments

• The NSF Is Being Dismantled – With Broad Implications for the American Economy

  by gammarator on 5/10/2025, 3:05 PM with 1 comments

• In Pursuit of the Bitcoin God

  by gammarator on 3/17/2025, 6:20 PM with 1 comments

• Underfunded, aging NASA may be on unsustainable path, report warns

  by gammarator on 9/11/2024, 11:34 PM with 2 comments

• AI and the Duty of Care

  by gammarator on 7/13/2024, 6:14 PM with 1 comments

• Escape from the Box

  by gammarator on 7/9/2024, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• President Speaking: Spoofing Alerts in 4G LTE Networks (2019) [pdf]

  by gammarator on 10/5/2023, 2:45 AM with 41 comments

• ‘Oumuamua: Natural or Artificial?

  by gammarator on 7/19/2023, 10:31 PM with 0 comments

• ‘Oumuamua: Natural or Artificial?

  by gammarator on 7/19/2023, 2:28 AM with 0 comments

• What Are Embeddings?

  by gammarator on 6/10/2023, 12:56 AM with 1 comments

• Academic urban legends (2014)

  by gammarator on 3/6/2023, 3:58 AM with 63 comments

• A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance

  by gammarator on 2/21/2023, 12:13 AM with 1 comments

• A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?

  by gammarator on 2/4/2023, 1:59 AM with 3 comments

• Terraform Industries Whitepaper 2.0

  by gammarator on 1/16/2023, 2:04 AM with 0 comments

• Astronomers observe “brightest of all time” gamma-ray burst

  by gammarator on 10/19/2022, 5:17 PM with 0 comments

• Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on

  by gammarator on 10/14/2022, 3:52 PM with 135 comments

• The scales turn against 2 fishermen after weights are found in fish

  by gammarator on 10/5/2022, 2:32 AM with 0 comments

• What’s in Which Python

  by gammarator on 5/23/2022, 3:42 AM with 72 comments

• The Myth of the Scofflaw Cyclist (2008)

  by gammarator on 4/15/2022, 4:06 PM with 0 comments

• Assertion-Evidence talks are comprehended better by audiences

  by gammarator on 4/13/2022, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• 9.2% and the Master of Twitter (Musk vs. SEC)

  by gammarator on 4/6/2022, 5:55 PM with 0 comments

• Achievements in Ukrainian Music

  by gammarator on 3/30/2022, 4:58 PM with 0 comments

• Schmidt Futures launches Virtual Institute for Scientific Software

  by gammarator on 3/29/2022, 4:07 AM with 0 comments

• Jupyter Everywhere

  by gammarator on 3/15/2022, 5:17 PM with 0 comments

• Biden Takes Step Toward Regulating Cryptocurrencies

  by gammarator on 3/9/2022, 7:40 PM with 0 comments

• Down Round

  by gammarator on 2/27/2022, 1:36 AM with 0 comments

• Terraform Industries Whitepaper

  by gammarator on 2/6/2022, 3:54 AM with 0 comments

• American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals transition to open access

  by gammarator on 1/3/2022, 7:26 PM with 8 comments

• Introducing the Arc Institute

  by gammarator on 12/15/2021, 4:53 PM with 2 comments

• Hamilton: A Microframework for Dataframe Generation

  by gammarator on 12/2/2021, 4:11 PM with 21 comments

• Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

  by gammarator on 11/30/2021, 6:58 PM with 1 comments

• Slack Shortcuts

  by gammarator on 11/10/2021, 3:15 AM with 0 comments

• Hamilton: A microframework for dataframe generation

  by gammarator on 10/25/2021, 3:24 AM with 0 comments

• NASA Selects Gamma-Ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution

  by gammarator on 10/18/2021, 10:36 PM with 0 comments

• The Big SPAC Crackdown

  by gammarator on 9/2/2021, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• FinCEN Announces $100M Enforcement Action Against BitMEX

  by gammarator on 8/10/2021, 8:27 PM with 0 comments

• Yellen to Convene U.S. Regulators to Discuss Stablecoins

  by gammarator on 7/16/2021, 9:08 PM with 1 comments

• Secretary of the Treasury to Convene a Meeting to Discuss Stablecoins

  by gammarator on 7/16/2021, 9:05 PM with 0 comments

• Lumber Prices Are Falling Fast, Turning Hoarders into Sellers

  by gammarator on 6/16/2021, 11:09 PM with 0 comments

• FBI Snooped on Criminals Using Encrypted Messaging App

  by gammarator on 6/8/2021, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

  by gammarator on 1/26/2021, 3:42 AM with 173 comments

• SLS Green Run Test Halted Early

  by gammarator on 1/17/2021, 12:46 AM with 1 comments

• Faith shapes economic and social policy

  by gammarator on 1/2/2021, 3:56 PM with 0 comments

• VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows a Different Reality

  by gammarator on 7/8/2020, 5:51 PM with 235 comments

• J. Crew Likely to File for Bankruptcy

  by gammarator on 5/4/2020, 5:25 AM with 0 comments

• Amazon sharply lowers affiliate advertising rates

  by gammarator on 4/14/2020, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• For Example (2013)

  by gammarator on 4/8/2020, 7:40 PM with 1 comments

• Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device

  by gammarator on 3/30/2020, 5:37 PM with 1 comments

• First US death due to novel coronavirus

  by gammarator on 3/1/2020, 4:24 AM with 0 comments

• Instagram is ruining food

  by gammarator on 9/30/2017, 5:35 AM with 16 comments

• There Are Bots. Look Around

  by gammarator on 5/25/2017, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?

  by gammarator on 10/10/2016, 3:59 PM with 460 comments

• The GRIM Test for Evaluating Published Research

  by gammarator on 5/31/2016, 5:32 PM with 0 comments

• Hyper-Reality

  by gammarator on 5/21/2016, 3:06 AM with 0 comments

• Displaced American STEM workers spur Senate hearing

  by gammarator on 3/3/2016, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley's $585B Problem

  by gammarator on 1/21/2016, 1:50 PM with 0 comments

• Everything You Need to Know About a Possible Slowdown in VC Investing

  by gammarator on 1/21/2016, 1:40 PM with 0 comments

• How to Pronounce Hexadecimal

  by gammarator on 12/11/2015, 5:34 AM with 1 comments

• Maciej Cegłowski Talks

  by gammarator on 7/21/2015, 9:21 PM with 0 comments

• 1979 California Water Atlas

  by gammarator on 7/13/2015, 4:38 PM with 0 comments

• Confronting New Madrid

  by gammarator on 7/10/2015, 5:37 AM with 46 comments

• The Human Side of Automation (2014)

  by gammarator on 6/15/2015, 3:35 AM with 0 comments

• How Cash Sent the Portland Home Market Spinning

  by gammarator on 5/14/2015, 3:33 AM with 42 comments

• The Tech Model Railroad Club Dictionary (1959)

  by gammarator on 2/19/2015, 4:34 AM with 0 comments

• A Rocket to Nowhere

  by gammarator on 12/6/2014, 6:53 AM with 1 comments

• One Hundred Million Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research

  by gammarator on 6/25/2014, 6:16 AM with 0 comments

• Up and Down the Python Data and Web Visualization Stack

  by gammarator on 5/4/2014, 7:26 PM with 17 comments

• by gammarator on 1/4/2014, 6:00 PM with comments

• Skybox Imaging Captures HD Video of Earth from Space [video]

  by gammarator on 12/28/2013, 12:10 AM with 0 comments

• Access Wikipedia articles by emoji

  by gammarator on 12/13/2013, 12:46 AM with 0 comments

• SkySat-1 First Light Images

  by gammarator on 12/11/2013, 5:26 PM with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy

  by gammarator on 11/26/2013, 2:09 AM with comments

• Exoplanet astonomers seek new meeting venue as US restrictions tighten

  by gammarator on 10/6/2013, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• Subtleties of Color (Data Visualization)

  by gammarator on 9/10/2013, 9:44 PM with 0 comments

• How to become a Data Scientist before you graduate

  by gammarator on 8/1/2013, 3:41 AM with 0 comments

• Throwable Camera Captures Stable Video and Images

  by gammarator on 7/12/2013, 9:44 AM with 1 comments

• A Statistical Analysis of Nerf Blasters and Darts

  by gammarator on 7/11/2013, 7:51 AM with 16 comments

• How Rap Battles Are Helping High Schoolers Learn to Love Science

  by gammarator on 7/2/2013, 3:38 AM with 0 comments

• For Example (2013)

  by gammarator on 6/9/2013, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• David Foster Wallace: This is Water

  by gammarator on 5/9/2013, 6:24 AM with 2 comments

• Authoritas: Aaron Greenspan's story of the founding of Facebook

  by gammarator on 5/9/2013, 6:00 AM with 0 comments

• A shortage of tech workers? Not so fast.

  by gammarator on 4/30/2013, 6:01 AM with 0 comments

• Startups in San Quentin

  by gammarator on 2/25/2013, 7:20 AM with -1 comments

• by gammarator on 2/25/2013, 7:19 AM with comments

• The Data Science Core Curriculum

  by gammarator on 2/16/2013, 8:30 PM with 0 comments

• Comparing Two Centuries of State of the Union Addresses With Text Analysis

  by gammarator on 2/13/2013, 1:19 AM with 0 comments

• by gammarator on 2/10/2013, 6:06 PM with comments

• The Super Bowl will be streamed live online by CBS

  by gammarator on 2/3/2013, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Ideas for Improving Your Scientific Visualizations

  by gammarator on 1/5/2013, 6:55 PM with 0 comments

• Astronomer to Data Scientist

  by gammarator on 1/5/2013, 4:31 AM with 13 comments

• When Facebook was Fun

  by gammarator on 12/2/2012, 8:11 PM with 69 comments

• Numba - a NumPy-aware dynamic Python complier [video]

  by gammarator on 11/13/2012, 11:33 AM with 1 comments

• Why Great Sign Language Interpreters are so Animated

  by gammarator on 11/13/2012, 8:58 AM with 1 comments

• The "Skills Gap" is a Hiring Problem

  by gammarator on 10/4/2012, 7:23 PM with 1 comments

• Don't Waste Your Time With Crappy Startup Jobs

  by gammarator on 9/16/2012, 10:19 PM with -1 comments

• by gammarator on 9/16/2012, 10:01 PM with comments

• What I Hate About Git

  by gammarator on 8/4/2012, 11:32 PM with 301 comments

• How to Recruit Harvard Grads Away from Goldman Sachs

  by gammarator on 6/29/2012, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Live video of NASA NuSTAR astronomy satellite launch (9 am PDT)

  by gammarator on 6/13/2012, 3:04 PM with 0 comments

• Why Dark Matter and Dark Energy aren't like the Aether

  by gammarator on 6/9/2012, 3:29 AM with 0 comments

• Kazaa is trying to help ISPs overwrite Google Ads

  by gammarator on 5/24/2012, 12:32 AM with 0 comments

• Why the VC Model Fails

  by gammarator on 5/8/2012, 7:44 PM with 1 comments

• by gammarator on 5/1/2012, 11:28 PM with comments

• Dear Python, Why Are You So Ugly?

  by gammarator on 4/26/2012, 7:39 PM with 2 comments

• Grading Essays with Machine Learning Doesn't Help Students

  by gammarator on 4/23/2012, 3:40 PM with 0 comments

• Insight Data Science Fellowships for Science PhDs

  by gammarator on 4/5/2012, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• Groupon restates past earnings

  by gammarator on 3/30/2012, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• Harvard’s Liberal-Arts Failure Is Wall Street’s Gain

  by gammarator on 2/16/2012, 9:30 PM with 0 comments

• Netflix Regains 600,000 U.S. Subscribers

  by gammarator on 1/26/2012, 5:12 AM with 41 comments

• The New Online Education

  by gammarator on 12/19/2011, 5:20 PM with 0 comments

• Underemployed Lawyers Hang a Shingle on Shpoonkle, to Some Colleagues' Chagrin

  by gammarator on 12/12/2011, 10:56 PM with 0 comments

• The Management Myth (2006)

  by gammarator on 11/28/2011, 12:54 AM with 0 comments

• New Physics at LHC? An Anomaly in CP Violation

  by gammarator on 11/15/2011, 1:11 AM with 0 comments

• Groupon to Prevent Employees from Cashing Out in IPO

  by gammarator on 10/21/2011, 4:15 PM with 0 comments

• JSTOR Makes Early Journal Content Freely Available

  by gammarator on 9/7/2011, 9:08 PM with 0 comments

• Flying over 1930s San Francisco

  by gammarator on 8/9/2011, 12:41 AM with 0 comments

• Can public data competitions improve scientific research?

  by gammarator on 7/19/2011, 4:32 PM with 0 comments

• by gammarator on 7/18/2011, 7:03 PM with comments

• Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment

  by gammarator on 7/11/2011, 11:46 PM with 0 comments

• Twitter draws FTC antitrust attention over TweetDeck acquisition

  by gammarator on 7/1/2011, 7:11 AM with 0 comments

• Why astronomers (and other scientists) should program in Python

  by gammarator on 5/27/2011, 5:10 PM with 25 comments

• Facebook revamps Groups for small-group sharing

  by gammarator on 4/25/2011, 7:09 PM with 0 comments

• Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry

  by gammarator on 4/16/2011, 12:12 AM with 42 comments

• No Dark Matter Seen in Deepest Limits to Date

  by gammarator on 4/14/2011, 5:08 PM with 1 comments

• Amazon offers $25 off ad-supported Kindle

  by gammarator on 4/11/2011, 10:20 PM with -1 comments

• Bloom distributed programming language released

  by gammarator on 4/7/2011, 11:14 PM with 16 comments

• LinkedIn Announces New Platform

  by gammarator on 4/6/2011, 4:14 PM with 28 comments

• Tevatron claims possible glimpse of particles beyond the standard model

  by gammarator on 4/6/2011, 4:11 PM with 0 comments

• Edward Tufte and the Truth About the Challenger O-Rings

  by gammarator on 4/5/2011, 8:46 PM with 1 comments

• Twitter emphasizes Interest Graph with new homepage

  by gammarator on 4/5/2011, 6:42 PM with 0 comments

• Significant Radiation Leak into the Ocean at Fukushima

  by gammarator on 4/2/2011, 7:09 PM with 0 comments

• How To Get Tenure at a Major Research University

  by gammarator on 3/30/2011, 9:17 PM with 0 comments

• Color plans to permanently block objectionable users?

  by gammarator on 3/26/2011, 11:39 PM with 1 comments

• Secret Fears of the Super-Rich

  by gammarator on 3/24/2011, 5:00 PM with 195 comments

• Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

  by gammarator on 3/21/2011, 5:48 PM with 1 comments

• Plot of Radiation Levels at Fukushima Daiichi and 75 Miles Away

  by gammarator on 3/16/2011, 4:16 AM with 0 comments

• Hiding from face recognition software with makeup

  by gammarator on 2/25/2011, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Reusable Code is Bad [or at least overrated]

  by gammarator on 12/10/2010, 6:55 AM with 1 comments

• In the age of the iPhone, what should your DSLR be doing?

  by gammarator on 11/23/2010, 4:52 PM with 0 comments