venice_benice

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Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the largest telescopes(science.org)
3 points by venice_benice 2y ago|0 comments
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by venice_benice 2y ago
interesting project; I’m not really sure how useful it is for field-specific stuff—I'm searching for “image reduction astronomy”, and it shows all sorts of related but not image-reduction work (including noise reduction which is not th
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by venice_benice 2y ago
Do you recall the name of the software? I am aware only of PhoSim ( https://www.phosim.org/ )
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by venice_benice 2y ago
I disagree. The spacing of the stylized TeX/LaTeX logo is very sensitive to the font used (especially the LA pair); most LaTeX users already don't adjust it when they use a font other than Computer Modern. Even when they can see t
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by venice_benice 2y ago
This is not the workflow being discussed. Yes, you can use Pandoc Markdown (in which you can embed LaTeX) and then Pandoc can parse the markdown and produce a LaTeX file. But the actual typesetting is still done by LaTeX; here Pandoc is bas
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by venice_benice 2y ago
pandoc is seriously under-powered for the kinds of things that LaTeX and Typst can do. Much of the information in Typst/LaTeX source code would simply be ignored during the conversion. It is fine for simple documents, but cannot handle
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by venice_benice 3y ago
pandoc is much less powerful here since it can only parse a subset of LaTeX, as opposed to LaTeXML or lwarp which actually processes the LaTeX/TeX code expanding the macros etc, and then generates the output HTML/XML. pandoc is ni
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by venice_benice 3y ago
I am unable to reply to any comments, so I’ll add my reply to blagie as a top-level comment instead: Gilles himself documents his process of using Inkscape here: https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/ As a summa
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by venice_benice 3y ago
well yes, but it likely will be a “telephone number” and not even a simple one like say `2MASS J19593766+2246141` which is 2MASS (the survey name) and the coordinates of the star in the J2000 epoch: 19:59:37.66 +22:46:14.1 . The Gaia ones
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by venice_benice 3y ago
there are still people using it---a few examples of being used in Malayalam: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4912/metafont-in-2023-nup... (the paper linked there has more information); the comments have work by
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by venice_benice 3y ago
Euclid's website has some nice explainers – for example, https://www.euclid-ec.org/public/core-science – which mentions using two methods: - “weak gravitational lensing” with the visible light instrument (which h
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by venice_benice 3y ago
yes, and yes. they call this “Odd Spreads” and “Even Spreads” it is available in their Tools menu (the >> icon)
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by venice_benice 3y ago
Most of the article is copied wholesale from the official press release: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-finds-... I'm not even sure how they managed to screw it up when the original mak
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by venice_benice 3y ago
> I cut-&-pasted Buttrick's quote from his website without alteration directly into HN's edit box and the uppercase text was immediately converted to lowercase. I'd not planned this but I could hardly have had a better
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by venice_benice 3y ago
Already, this has rebuttals: https://twitter.com/lacalaca85/status/1666501987435700225 (link to a thread by author) and the paper itself: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5
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by venice_benice 4y ago
In the case of phys.org, they just repost (or maybe re-host is a better word?) University press releases, among other things, verbatim, so this probably is just the press release from the University of Sunshine Coast or the authors or somet