Mario Juric
@mjuric
Training computers to map the Universe // Prof at @uwastronomy // @VRubinObs builder
🚨 New Citizen Science Alert! 🚨 Introducing Rubin Comet Catchers – the first public project using real data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory! 🧵
Daughter with headphones on, skipping an ad on Spotify: "I don't want HP virtualish! What is a kuber-daddy, blah..."
(theological intermezzo) Post: "No way this is C.S.Lewis. More like the big G of old. Or the pseudo-religions du jour. Wonder if anyone bought it..." Comments: Calling out the (misattributed, obviously) Gnosticism -- every single one. Good site.
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July 20, 1969. “Contact light, engine stop.” The Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle touched down at Tranquility Base on the Moon. A few hours later, Neil Armstrong and I stepped foot on the Moon, with Michael Collins orbiting close-by. An achievement resulting from years of…
On this day, July 16th 1969, we were “GO” for launch – and at precisely 13:32 UTC, #Apollo11 lifted off from @NASAKennedy to transport three mortal Americans – Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and myself – to the Moon. The hard work, dedication and focus across the entire @NASA…
Get ready for our monthly #AstroOnTap held on July 23rd at 7pm at @BickersonsB where our speaker Professor Mario Juric will demonstrate the capabilities of the Rubin Observatory by walking us through the discoveries it has made so far FB: facebook.com/events/1077979…
Check out the fantastic asteroid orbit viewer made by the @VRubinObs EPO team! Fun detail: the current tally of Rubin discoveries is listed as 1,891. Why not 2104 as originally announced? Because ~200 were since recognized as previously lost asteroids, which we helped find…
Rubin's thousands of newly-discovered asteroids....now in your web browser! Introducing NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's 3D Orbitviewer ☄️🪐 Follow along as Rubin discovers millions more asteroids in our Solar System in the coming years at orbitviewer.app 🪐
Is it just me or has @Atlassian JIRA UX become overcrowded to the point of being unusable? Example: rubinobs.atlassian.net/browse/DM-51749
Bayesian inference with strong priors in action. Spiffy.
This is boggling my mind. Cannot unhear it
My favorite edits: - changed “a people” to “one people” - changed “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable” to “We hold these truths to be self-evident” Also, further down in the full draft, the word “subjects” is crossed out and changed to “citizens” Just beautiful
Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft copy of the Declaration of Independence
I remember getting teased by some fourth- or fifth-generation Americans because my family tends to call each other to wish a Happy Fourth of July. It seemed funny and quaint to them. But my dad fled totalitarianism in Europe, and I grew up around a lot of other immigrant and…
As someone who lived through the socialist utopia that @ZohranKMamdani advocates for, skipped meals at 10yrs old because of it, spent 7th grade running to bomb shelters once society collapsed around it, I cannot emphasize enough just how surreal and terrifying it is to hear this…
This is not terrible AI, it's a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades. "The end goal of seizing the means of production." I can't believe this is actually happening.