Josh Peek @jegpeek@qoto.org
Deep space, archival data, machine learning. I lead the archives and data science at Space Telescope Science Institute. Views are mine, not STScI's or NASA's.
Joined Jun 2020
@VirStrakul being MAST’s mascot / cheerleader / biggest booster does seem like it would be tiring. But hot damn it’s important…
Rant on satellite constellations #SatCons
@HIprocessor ahhhh got it. Was confused by “Kepler”.
Featuring me and my buddy Mike: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/11/22/married-men-taking-wifes-name/
Rant on satellite constellations #SatCons
@HIprocessor i am vocally opposed to naming telescopes after people at all, but I am not sure I follow your argument. I am interested tho!
@erinnacland @academicchatter the overall point certainly stands though. Heaven give me the confidence of a physicist rejecting a proposal…
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The sudden explosion of interest in Hive does not, I think, indicate that it's an op. More likely, people are dissatisfied with the available options post-twitter (yes, including mastodon), and are hungry for something that might be better. And people understand network effects, so they are inclined to hype things up as much as possible.
I don't think a startup can do it. To my mind there is one company who could announce a product that would end the uncertainty overnight. They already have a huge userbase. They already have the infrastructure to support massively-connected message graphs. They already have a lot of experience with moderation and balancing the needs of communities and governments and corporate ad-buying departments. That company is Reddit.
If Reddit announced a new user-specific UX with twitterish feeds tomorrow, they would start off with more users than Twitter ever had. With opt-in integration between the new feed and existing reddit subscriptions, the ramp-up time would be essentially nil.
Personally, I don't want that to happen. I'd prefer to see Mastodon grow and evolve and firmly establish Open Source as the best way to implement social media. But Reddit is the dark horse I'm watching out for, and they'd be crazy not to be working on it.
@erinnacland @academicchatter I generally agree with this approach. I use the time sharpening a proposal to do a lot of the actual testing and work. For me this implies that the time isn’t entirely wasted for some of us and that we’d need to figure out if that process is valuable enough to replicate elsewhere
Xkcd.com/2701 is the secret to my success
@beckastrosaurus ah I love that usecase for cnns. Go ham!
@lucifargundam we have some little pinecones coated in something that makes them blue! My little one loves them.
Ok Mastodon, here is a first view of holograms I am making of nearby starforming molecular clouds in 3D. $ from NSF, help from Catherine Zucker, Linnea Rundgren, Hannah Bish, and JHU
@drhafezster this is originally a @AstroKatie tweet
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Moon ahead! The #Orion and its target as seen from one of the many GoPro cameras on the solar cells: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasaorion/52513647068/
@elizabethtasker what was the cubesat designed to do?
@beckastrosaurus what kinda data science do you do?
@design_RG @freemo Thanks man! My friend group is interested in Mastodon and we are considering our own server. You folks seemed to be doing good stuff, so I thought I'd join in and see how the cool kids are doing it. Plus, STEM stuff is my jam.
@design_RG story checks out, given the company, though I guess that ship has sailed.
so much pressure, deciding what your first toot will be
Deep space, archival data, machine learning. I lead the archives and data science at Space Telescope Science Institute. Views are mine, not STScI's or NASA's.
Joined Jun 2020
