MIT Undergrad
Joined July 2020
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7 Jun 2024
forgot to post about this because I don't use twitter much anymore but we published a new paper! Thanks to my excellent mentor @amvanderburg for invaluable guidance throughout the many year endeavor.
20 May 2024
Check out this awesome new paper from superstar MIT @urop_mit student Sam Christian (@SamChristian27) about the orientation of binary stars with respect to planets in the system: arxiv.org/abs/2405.10379
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29 Jan 2023
One of the worst written pieces of science journalism I've read (from 1919):
"Lights All Askew in the Heavens" -- The New York Times
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_N…
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5 Jan 2023
"A Fearful Asymmetry: Covid-19 and America’s Information Deficit with China"
apjjf.org/2020/14/Moser.html
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23 Dec 2022
Taking it all in.
ALT Willow underneath a Christmas tree in the Grand Foyer of the White House
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23 Nov 2022
We're thankful for TESS, also known as the @NASAExoplanets hunter, for working with us to show that there are worlds outside our solar system: nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exo…
Find out more: nasa.gov/content/discoveries…
#Friendsgiving
ALT This illustration shows the TESS spacecraft.
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New views of planet Earth from @NASA_Orion as #Artemis I journeys to the Moon. Orion is 9.5 hours into a 25.5-day test flight.
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7 Nov 2022
The engineering The math
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1 Nov 2022
“In virtually every decade from 1650 to the present there have appeared papers devoted to the Kepler problem and its solution.” — Peter Colwell
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12 Oct 2022
Mission update: TESS entered into safe mode on Monday, Oct. 10. Recovery measures are underway to resume #TESS normal operations: nasa.gov/feature/goddard/202…
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Don't want to miss a thing? Watch the final moments from the #DARTMission on its collision course with asteroid Dimporphos.
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29 Aug 2022
How Kepler's equation was solved before computers. Connect a ruler between two quantities, get the third.
From "A first course in nomography" (Brodetsky 1920)
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26 Aug 2022
Very simple, but important, lesson in mcmc fitting I just learned:
When you have an angle variable, sample the x and y component of a unit vector then use arctan to transform .
This allows the sampler to wrap from 360 to 0 degrees.
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26 Aug 2022
Very simple, but important, lesson in mcmc fitting I just learned:
When you have an angle variable, sample the x and y component of a unit vector then use arctan to transform .
This allows the sampler to wrap from 360 to 0 degrees.
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26 Aug 2022
Just putting this on Twitter because I have seen a lot of code (mine too!) that hasn't done this...
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21 Jul 2022
Several passengers climbed out of windows when a Boston-area public transit train caught fire during the Thursday morning commute, officials said.
The fire is the latest in a string of dangerous problems with the troubled system. apne.ws/F9NF1sX
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18 Jul 2022
Stephans Quintet from Webb, Hubble, and Subaru: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220718.…
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12 Jul 2022
Ok, JWST is cool and all, but let's not forget all the OTHER space telescopes. For instance, @TESSatMIT can observe Stephan's Quintet too! Look!
*insert Pam "they're the same image" meme*
I dare you to tell me which is which.
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12 Jul 2022
DALL-E creation
prompt: "Dutch golden age portrait painting of a cat wearing a hat"
