Celeste, a statistical analysis model designed to enhance one of modern astronomy’s most time-tested tools—sky surveys—has gotten a major upgrade that dramatically scales up the process of cataloging astronomical objects.

I asked on Twitter a while back “how do you invest in you own learning?” (this tweet. Some common things people replied with: (more…)

Member of the European Parliament Julia Reda has warned that efforts are underway to sabotage the Parliamentary process relating to the EU's plans for mandatory piracy filtering. The Pirate Party member says there's now just over a week to protest against... (more…)

Julia language is now available for Raspberry Pi, with support for GPIO, the Sense HAT and Minecraft. Scientific computing opportunities galore! (more…)

I’ve been working with container networking a bunch this week. When learning about new unfamiliar stuff (like container networking / virtual ethernet devices / bridges / iptables), I often realize that I don’t fully understand something much more fundamen... (more…)