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
Josh Peek
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Pi Day is a fake holiday that exploits a universal beloved mathematical constant to promote US-style date formats.
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A new real-world effectiveness study documents 85% reduction of deaths and 55% reduction of hospitalizations for Paxlovid, independent of vaccination status, age, variants https://thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00011-7/fulltext…
@TheLancetInfDis
Josh Peek
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accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"
and honestly, where is the lie
I am at "Mapping the Milky Way" at the Lorentz Center in Leiden for my first full week of sabbatical with @rdrimmel and many others. We are trying to unify observations across the EM spectrum to make a map of the Milky Way!
People, I am on sabbatical!
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Most folks know about da VInci's Vitruvian Man. But few know about his Cheetodesic Dome.
14 days till sabbatical but who’s counting?
Is there weird mastodon?
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Were you at @janerrigby's fantastic #aas241 talk this morning and were wondering "how could I do some of that?" in the science sections? You may be interested in my interactive presentation of STScI's Jupyter notebook machinery, Wednesday at 930a at the STScI booth!
I have always told my conservative friends and relatives (many whom I respect and actively discuss real issues with) that their concerns about silencing diverse views on campus were overblown. But holy crap, this is a very clear example of what they are worried about: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-islam-prophet-muhammad.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
If you are curious how AI will destroy the world without being explicitly evil, please watch the last third of every zombie movie or “facility gone wrong” movie ever made. It’s not the zombies. It’s the people.
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My kids gave me the greatest shirt in existence. I will not be taking any questions at this time.
I dunno who needs to hear this but if you have covid, and you have access to paxlovid, take paxlovid. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04576-6
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I don't feel as strongly about quote posts as I did in 2018. Personally, I am not a fan, but there is clearly a lot of demand for it. We're considering it.
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It's kinda weird when 8 out of 10 people watching the fireworks are using their phones to record it. It feels so surreal seeing them recording the fireworks instead of enjoying the moment.
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A sympathetic nod of the head to everyone who is not posting end of year summaries because they’re broken and sad.
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Ending the year by updating my #website: http://dr-rodriguez.github.io/
It had been years since I touched it so it was overdue for a more modern look 😉
#Astrodon #Astronomy #HTML
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
