
William Thompson
@AstroWrt
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Herzberg Fellow at the NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics. Exoplanets, direct imaging instruments, and stats tools. #julialang enthusiast.
Victoria, B.C., Canada
Joined January 2020
Announcing Octofitter (š), an ambitious tool for all kinds of exoplanet orbit modeling workflows: fit planet orbits to relative astrometry, proper motion anomaly, radial velocity, images, and more! [1/7].
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RT @docmilanfar: A surprising & little-known results in classical statistics:. Mean (μ) and median (m) are within one std deviation:. |μām|ā¦.
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RT @Hajime_dxdydz: Our paper on a differentiable spectral model, ExoJAX2, has been accepted by ApJ. In this paper, we use HMC-NUTS to analā¦.
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Just learned that am being awarded the J. S. Plaskett medal for most outstanding doctoral thesis in astronomy in Canada. Thank you @AstroCanada, and my committee & @PHASTatUVIC for the nomination!.
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RT @AstroJake: Taking my glasses off when I get home after a long day because Iāve seen enough.
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RT @fherwig: Researchers from UVicās Astronomy Research Centre used the James Webb Space Telescope to captured a rare glimpse of how youngā¦.
news.uvic.ca
A Canadian-led team of international astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery about how young planets form and grow using a creative approach with
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RT @FullAsMuchHeart: Just saw someone saying using the em-dash is a sign of something being written by AI, because real people rarely use iā¦.
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RT @ChrisRackauckas: Law of controls: write C code for real-time embedded hardware. You can't use #python or #rstats etc. for that, right?ā¦.
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Since time immemorial an old adage has always seemed to ring true: you cannot use a high-level productive programming language like Python or R for real-time control and embedded-systems...
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RT @owainkenway: The heretical thought occurs to me as I dig into āThe Stars, Like Dustā that I do not in fact enjoy Isaac Asimovās long foā¦.
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RT @astro_Pettit: One photo with: Milkyway, Zodical light, @Starlink satellites as streaks, stars as pin points, atmosphere on edge showinā¦.
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RT @ludwigABAP: whole article is incredible and has 5-6 ākoansā about gitās (horrible) quirks
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RT @astro_Pettit: Cosmic fireflies. Actually, these are Starlink satellites momentarily flashing sunlight towards @Space_Station. https://tā¦.
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