Brandon Barker

Jurassic park clip, edited: a few more years development and we won’t even have to code anymore

Alan Grant saying where’s the fun in that

Feeling like Alan Grant more each day

Better than me trying to get a SSPRK tableau, and then telling me (after making lots of fake tableaus) “no, this one is SSP but that identical one is not”

3 hours of chat gpeetee can save you thirty minutes of just reading the literature

on the opposite side i finally (re) found beamer. turns out they can look interesting after all. wouldn’t use anything else besides Libre office because fuck proprietary thought

Did you know the high desert looks like this

Poster advertising the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18 at Rutgers University. There is a QR code on the bottom left, and there is also information about the conference + the invited lecturers.

Excited to announce the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18! To offset the uncertain funding landscape, we are offering a hybrid option + requiring NO registration fee. Non-faculty are especially encouraged to apply!

Please apply by May 31! More in the replies!

🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro

new in pynucastro: we can now export to NetworkX and use their functions analyze a reaction network.

Here's an example of finding cycles -- NetworkX finds the CNO and hot-CNO cycles in a network:
pynucastro.github.io/pynucastro/n...

#astro #astrocode

the python ecosystem slowly becoming usable

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust.

In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

In honor of Caroline Herschel, remembering one of my favorite poems: Planetarium, by Adrienne Rich (www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46568/...)

Color portrait (artist’s impression) of a young Caroline Herschel. In this painting, which is primitive in style, Herschel wears a yellow dress and has her hair in curls that hang to shoulder length.

Astronomer Caroline Herschel was born #OTD in 1750. She discovered and catalogued a wealth of comets, stars, and nebulae. Along with Mary Somerville, she was the first woman elected to the Royal Astronomical Society. 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Image: Artist's impression of a young Caroline Herschel. Lisa Rosowsky / CfA

DFW is as close to the black lodge as we will ever find on earth

Dallas Fort Worth is not under gods protection. The devil is always at work here

If this looks old it's because it's been up there a while.

have you tried hot chocolate

vim wouldn’t do this to you

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust.

From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

Applications open for the 2025 Argonne training program for extreme scale computing (ATPESC) - a really great intensive summer school for HPC extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov

Character Tsukishima from Haikyu glaring

Mackinac bridge

Mackinac bridge

Mackinac bridge

Mackinac bridge

Huei???

Paper day!! 🧵

Not-Quite-Transcendental Functions For Logarithmic Interpolation of Tabulated Data From tabulated nuclear and degenerate equations of state to photon and neutrino opacities, to nuclear reaction rates: tabulated data is ubiquitous in computational astrophysics. The dynamic range that...

Paper day! This is a fun one if you like low level #hpc #programming hacks. 🧪🔭

In computational physics ⚛️, we often interpolate tabulated data that spans many orders of magnitude. A common way to do this is to tabulate in log space. But logs are slow... Or are they? 🧵👇

arxiv.org/abs/2501.05410

It's not every day that you get to touch programming and video game lore in a science project. But today was such a day. Thanks to my colleagues Jacob Fields, Peter Hammond, and @astrobarker.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

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Thanks Sam!!

Thank you!!

2024 was a wild one. lots of travel, applied to postdocs, finished my PhD, backpacked Isle Royale, started my fellowship at LANL, but saved the best for last: got engaged to the love of my life

The Christmas Day agenda: watch all of Lord of the Rings and have seven hobbit meals from the LOTR cookbook

Cat in sweater

Cat in sweater

Tell him he’s handsome