Nostr notes by Aleks Scholz

'You can’t do science if you don’t live within a network ...

2026-02-12T08:21:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…n2k0
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'You can’t do science if you don’t live within a network of trust. This point is extremely general: You have to trust your coauthors, you have to trust the literature, and you have to trust the machinery and tools that you use.'

"When we employ a graduate student to perform some work, it ...

2026-02-12T08:18:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…mntd
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"When we employ a graduate student to perform some work, it absolutely must be because the graduate student will benefit from that work, not merely because that work needs to get done."

"For analysis of the Gaia data, a data scientist who has ...

2026-02-12T08:16:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…8348
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"For analysis of the Gaia data, a data scientist who has taken an astronomy class might be better prepared than an astronomer who has taken a data science class."

'There are two points in play here: The first is that teams ...

2026-02-12T08:15:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…q4cn
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'There are two points in play here: The first is that teams that produce data are increasingly professionalized, and removed from research astrophysics. The second is that the astrophysics community is increasingly expecting to receive trustworthy, vetted, calibrated, and complete data.'

Reading David Hogg on LLMs in astrophysics should be mandatory. ...

2026-02-12T08:15:33Z

Reading David Hogg on LLMs in astrophysics should be mandatory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181 (edited with link)

I would never forget that. Mainstream TV stations in Germany made ...

2026-01-14T21:02:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…xlz9
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I would never forget that. Mainstream TV stations in Germany made entire longform shows about his nonsense, even in the 1990s.

For people who somehow have not heard of Erich von Daeniken until ...

2026-01-11T16:56:31Z

For people who somehow have not heard of Erich von Daeniken until today, the day after he passed away, the English Wikipedia entry has a good summary of the history of fraud that his wealth and fame was founded on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%C3%A4niken

Good to know that in these uncertain times the website for what ...

2025-11-30T10:31:59Z

Good to know that in these uncertain times the website for what is likely the most elaborated joke I will ever make in my life is still online. http://weti-institute.org/index.html

Hey, I grew up in a communist country, and, hey, let me tell you, ...

2024-08-08T21:46:56Z

Hey, I grew up in a communist country, and, hey, let me tell you, it's not what you think it is. But if it is THAT, let's do it.