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by tectonic 5y ago
Mike Brown recently wrote a summary of his and Konstantin Batygin's paper 'The orbit of Planet Nine'. By looking at Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) whose orbits appear skewed by the invisible gravity of a possible Planet Nine, acc
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by tectonic 5y ago
I use Huginn + Google Alerts for this, but haven't found anything great for curating conversation from the Twitter community. For example, show me what was talked about the most yesterday by Space Twitter.
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Megaconstellations Proliferate(orbitalindex.com)
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Here's a draft of the summary that will be in next week's Orbital Index: Last Thursday, at the request of NASA, the NSF, and other science agencies, NASEM released their astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey for the 2020s. Fol
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by tectonic 5y ago
This is the decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics for the 2020s. It's a big deal. The 1980s decadal survey resulted in the Chandra X-ray Observatory (20 years later). The 90s survey resulted in the Spitzer Space Telescope. The
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Where will we point the largest space telescope ever built?(orbitalindex.com)
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The Bobiverse is great.
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Highlights from IAC, the world’s largest space conference(orbitalindex.com)
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SpaceX's Missing Gas(orbitalindex.com)
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A Journey to a Metal-Rich World(orbitalindex.com)
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A VIPER is heading to the Moon(orbitalindex.com)
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Despite a falling power budget, InSight detected the largest Marsquake seen(orbitalindex.com)
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Who owns space debris anyway?(orbitalindex.com)
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NASA selects five companies to mature lunar landing(orbitalindex.com)
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Why fixed-price aerospace contracts are so important(orbitalindex.com)
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Health conscious people are health conscious?
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Upgrading Downmass(orbitalindex.com)
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Lucy's crazy asteroid-visiting trajectory(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
Completely agree. It currently tends to write unsafe, error-prone code. The next step is to figure out how to rein it in, either with new techniques or rejection sampling from a large set of possible outputs.
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It's much less reliable on sites like Reddit, although it can usually handle "click on the profile link" or "delete all images" and stuff.
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It's not currently open source, but I might release it if I can get it cleaned up.
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I had to try a few times to get the prompt right, but that's the limit of the cherrypicking. You're correct that it doesn't work nearly as well on more complex, less temporally stable sites like Reddit.
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debuild.co looks cool. Using Codex yet?
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When it showed up I sort of guessed, but had to try clicking it anyway, then my wife asked why I was laughing.
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Here's the entirety of the prompt: <|endoftext|>/* This code is running inside of a bookmarklet. Each section should set and return _.*/ // The bookmarklet is now executing on example.com. /&#x2F
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It's real. I was totally surprised when that was the URL it picked.
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by tectonic 5y ago
Yahoo! Pipes inspired me to make Huginn. https://GitHub.com/huginn/huginn
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OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video](youtube.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
Well darn, I guess I have to find a new password manager. 1Pass + Dropbox sync was so good.
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Orbital Index, Issue #129(orbitalindex.com)
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