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🇷🇴🇬🇧astronomer & ai hacker @ourANU · building @universe_tbd 🗺️ /w wondrous humans · prev UCL, prev Turing · eu sou a mesma #colectiv
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I've decided to go vegan upon reading the research on how the meat and diary industry destroys our planet and its species. It's time to move away from vegetarian to completely plant-based.
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My first uni lecture ever is in the biggest lecture room at uni.
Go home or go big.
#terrified
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New work on the arXiv today. We just wanted to talk with Astro papers in ways that have never been possible.
Comments are very welcome from the community.
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I did a thing :D. So grateful to
@TingAstro
, who supported me and my science more than tweets can ever express, and
@amaxiom
for the wonderful idea of the Jubilee Joint Fellowship and her trust in me. Here's looking at 3 years of risk-taking with ML and Astro. With a side of fun.
ANU School of Computing announces 5 winners of the Joint Jubilee Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Dan Andrews, Dr Rhys Hawkins, Dr Jo Ciuca, Dr Michael McCullough, & Dr Brian Parker.
MORE:
@amaxiom
@ANUComputing
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So proud of my best friend on becoming a Doctor of Philosophy today! Here's looking at you, kid, conquering Astrophysics!
@woodhamlloyd
#AcademicChatter
#lifepostphd
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When I was a kid living with my mom and brother in Western Romania, we witnessed the solar eclipse of 1999 reflected into a bucket of water since we were too poor/remote to get special glasses.
2 decades later, I see it from the other side of the world as an astronomer.
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Our new paper is out: . In it, we are chasing a vision rather than refined methods, which we have started working on now as we’re learning more about NLP.
Is it possible to use LLMs to come up with good ideas? What if we criticise their response?
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I am not staying in academia for a postdoc, as fancy as they seem. Call me entitled, call me angry, but I am too good for these cycles.
As an AI kid with loads of social capital, this choice is way easier for me than for many of my colleagues.
The current system is not
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Without your books, I'd be so lost. Thanks for being an absolutely wonderful human being, we need them...
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For my bday all I want is the people I love and care about to be well, and to be left to heal ❤️🩹. Also to become blonde.
No party tonight cos human is shattered, but tomorrow party with a cigar yay🎉. NYC style.
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Things change when you start reading 1 or 2 books a week. Who thought changing my evening routine to allow 1-2 hours of reading would open my worldview so much :-).
What is everyone reading at the moment?🌻
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@ylecun
Astronomy met your llama wee: .
@universe_tbd
@joshnguyen99
@TingAstro
P.S. The AstroLLaMA loves your X background
@ylecun
! Any tips for us?
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@Tiana_Athriel
Gaussian. You can do whatever you want to that beast, it prevails. Resilient thang.
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This is going to sound quite soppy, but the visa news broke an emotional dam. I can't put into words the joy I feel that I'm going to Australia to do astronomy, and work with the coolest people in the world. I know academia has many issues, but to me, tonight is not about that.
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With my final corrections for thesis submitted, wanna thank publicly to my PhD advisor Prof Daisuke Kawata. Really could not have done this without him. He has been my guide, support and inspiration throughout my graduate journey.
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I'm shocked at how my life has improved after making one tiny change: replacing Netflix with Youtube lectures.
Why watch Emily in Paris when you can watch Prof Denis Auroux killing it with vector calculus.
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I can't believe that a small moth like me did it. Humbled. Grateful. And a bit proud. Thanks to all my friends here who've been so supportive all these years.
#baggedaphd
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All my students getting high distinction, the team smashing it, so today we can enjoy a few hours of rest before more intensity for the next few weeks ❤️. Gotta raise a few $$$, but before that we raise some sun.
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“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” Alan Turing ♥️
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Running late on so many deadlines even working 12+ hours a day, with a brain that sometimes likes to migraine, worried I’m letting everyone down.
But then my students ❤️ happen. Adore these kids.
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LLMs meet Astro needs: if you have a project where you think your Astro needs could use some Large Language Model, post it here, and we can think as a community how to leverage resources amongst us to make it a practical reality (please retweet):
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Neighbour: What are you?
Me: Physicist (decided astro was pushing it).
Neighbour: So you do massages and stuff?
Me: 😑.
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We are very grateful and excited for the wonderful words and trust from the media team at our college
@anucecc
.
The story goes like this: a few of us decided to jump on a dreamboat and realised we were sailing in the open ocean. With no shore in sight, we're making our own.
Ioana Ciucă joined
@ANUcomputing
to explore the origins of our galaxy from the nexus of
#AI
&
#astronomy
. Now her work w/
@TingAstro
et al. has spurred a global effort to enlist large language models as co-pilots in astronomy research.
@errai34
#LLMs
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I am slowly but surely becoming my own person in research.
This past year has been quite a dramatic shift from a PhD mindset to a researcher and my needs have changed, too. I still find it challenging to call myself a lead, teacher, or supervisor out of some internalised shame.
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Just sayin' that if you want to be the best, you should learn from the absolute best.
@TingAstro
taught me never to collapse one's knowledge of nature into a point but to keep it groovin' as a PDF. These videos are a treasure trove, my peeps.
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Close encounter today at Mount Stromlo Observatory 😍. You don’t know how much you miss a place until you’re gone and back again.
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Beautiful people and my wonderful new friends. My heart is so happy to have been welcomed to Malaysia 🇲🇾 and so looking forward to be back. ❤️🌟🌟❤️ 😊.
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Hypothesis of the day: given any research problem, there exists a finite number of GitHub repos that can be used to puzzle together its solution.
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#postdoclife
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So incredibly happy to announce the brilliant work of
@joshnguyen99
and our wonderful team at
@universe_tbd
, who fine-tuned the first specialised generative LLM for Astronomy. A small step for LLM, a big step for Astro.
#lettheastrollamaout
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Walking home I got caught in a massive storm in Canberra and now here I am chilling at this amazing jazz bar which I didn’t know existed. Bit of Herbie, bit of cocktail 🍸, lots of rain.
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Slowly making my slides for symposium talk on Friday and I've decided to frame the talk as a film :D.
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Wrote a blurb about the early days of
@universe_tbd
at (we are fundraising ;)).
Huge shoutout to our Team and our founders
@TingAstro
,
@kartheikiyer
,
@kruksandor
,
@kevinschawinski
+ our Admin
@ZechangS
.
@OpenAI
It started with y'all so thanks so much for
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I’m too old for all-nighters, but I made it, submitted a proposal for the Hubble fellowship.
Very grateful for the humans who kept this gpt-00000.1 brain of mine going.
Rest for a few hours, then back to the team proposal.
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There’s no greater joy for an astronomer than to look up on a cold clear night in the southern hemisphere. Everything else fades away.
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Galaxy formation, oh well. If you don't know where the Galaxy ends and the GSE merger begins, you're in good company.
Together with a mindbogglingly fantastic team of humans, we've had a little go at trying to understand more about this question: 1/n
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Made it to Doha yay! Going to Australia with new energy finally 🤩. Next big trip will be San Francisco if all things go well. But no travel for next six months lol human needs rest :)).
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I said I'd be back 6 years ago. Once I'm done with immigration, I'll get a glass of wine - what a trip!
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No more sugar, processed foods and 10 k runs every other day.
Healthy body, healthy mind.
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I'm no longer a PhD student at UCL. You know it's been a great journey when you don't want it to end. The rain ain't helping with the nostalgia, but I guess I'll miss the rain too in Australia.
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the benefits you bring outweigh the risks to the Australian community -- I am exempt and will be flyin' after all next week :D.
what a way to boost someone's confidence, especially after they've messed the timezone twice again in one morning.
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Awww thank you so much!!! This made my day 🔥💯🎉🍀💐!!!
Congratulations to Dr Ioana (Jo) Ciuca of
@msslastro
, who carried out research in galactic archaeology. She passed her PhD viva in October 2020, and will be an ASTRO-3D fellow at the Australian National University.
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Two months ago, I didn't imagine I'd be working on foundation models for Astronomy.
But here we are, the primary project moving forward.
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tl;dr: Find yourself someone who looks at you how I look at spectra :D.
I made a snapshot by accident during an amazing panel where I was invited by my amazing colleague
@kruksandor
, who is also mesmerised by the Webb results. Thought I'd share the sheer joy I felt seeing them.
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Who needs polluted and noisy cities when you live in heaven?
So good to be back in Canberra, Australia 😍.
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Shortlisted for interview for the Data Science for Social Good from the Alan Turing Institute yay. Guess this idea for a platform to help kids from lower income backgrounds "hack" better opportunities might just be made a reality. 😊
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Shining light on the galaxy :-)). 10 coauthors, all of them world experts, a funky new lamp 🪔 and 3 days till submission yay. Can’t wait to take a break after this tho.
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This is what I call a transitional year. They come once in a while in the life of an academic. Australia, US and Europe are all on the table when it comes to where I’ll choose to go and it’s my last move because I’m tired of changing lives.
Confused, undecided, excited.
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Based on the recent emails sent in my department, the
@MSSLSpaceLab
has got some growing up to do when it comes to listening to its members raising concerns on biased hiring practices. Rather than 'humility, perseverance, openness', you get arrogance, excuses and false prophets.
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Being called professor today definitely felt strange :D. Corrected the students; guess I'm Dr Jo now.
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Now and then, I miss London a bit but then I think to myself, ‘hey kid, we made it to Sydney on this tiny dreamboat’. Next we take Manhattan. Kuala Lumpur and San Francisco too🌺.
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Also on a personal level working with our AstroLLaMA superstar
@joshnguyen99
has been a complete pleasure. Josh is genuinely one of the most patient, generous, thorough and kind young researchers I've ever had the honour to meet.
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My first stable home in over three years. After endless luggage chasing around friends, airbnbs, families I have my own corner of heaven ❤️. My one luggage seems happy not to move for a while
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So hyped we got into the OpenAI Researcher Access Program :D. We ain't stopping now.
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Shameless self-promotion :D. wish I could know how to deploy web apps :)).
#drchattie
#gpt4
Made using open-source codes based on
#langchain
and
#fastapi
. Image from
#midjourneyv5
gallery <3.
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All them years walking this route from my house to the highschool with broken shoes in the seasons of my early life.
It’s so weird walking here now. But glad I didn’t stop.
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So grateful to be selected for the final interview round of the Data Science for Social Good Fellowship. As a treat, I'd go out to enjoy a massive tiramisu. But for now we should
#selfisolate
and protect our community. Day 6 - house is cleaner than ever and I started 🎨 again.
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It took 10 months, 8 houses, lots of side hustles to make ends meet and working with an inflamed mind but I finally had my last paper accepted😃. Now I'm way more secure and rested, hoping the next one will be less of a pain :)). Never give up.
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My grandad passed away peacefully tonight at 93, he's no longer in pain. Grateful I got to say goodbye... My last grandparent, he'd always say the house he built with my grandma from nothing was my home and their gift. It hurts.
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San Francisco to New York to Los Angeles to Sydney in one week✈️😅.
Human feels the travels.
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A moment of wholesome solitude before the travel storms.
Hunan restaurant, San Francisco.
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As one of the somewhat elusive Romanian astronomers, one of my greatest dreams is to return home and inspire young people to take on astronomy.
So grateful to be at the
#IAUS377
and to the wonderful people bringing us here, which helps me to get closer to it.
Thank you.
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Just dedicated my PhD thesis to my grandma and I'm here crying over my laptop, with my third paper supposed to be finished in two days and all I can write is that I miss her so. Scientists are human. And sometimes it hurts deeply.
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Goodbye London. This is for longer, old friend. Tomorrow morning I’m flying back to beautiful Australia and soon back to my Canberra, which this trip made me realise it’s a much better home for me. Sometimes letting go is the way to open your heart to truly good things ♥️.
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The joy is immensurable when this millennial, who hasn't cooked once in their entire life consistently, has finished a week of everyday cooking of new recipes. This are the saddest looking fritters, but I made them hehe ☺️. Also,
#newhaircut
#freshstart
#comesoonervisa
.
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@TingAstro
shining at the
#IAUS377
. Science meets brilliance and humour 🙏🍀. ML has arrived in Astrotown, world.
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When you keep yourself and your brother in the UK for three years on a PhD stipend, while working 2 other jobs, it makes you think about money differently. That after being on scholarships since highschool. As it's finally getting easier, I wonder how that feels like. Grateful.
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Although I decided to keep a low key profile on social media, I cannot not share I got featured in the 91st Issue of the amazing
@CosmosMagazine
. Thank you Lauren, Gail and Greg for being so nice and patient with me during the interview and taking the pandemic photo hehe. <3
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On my way to San Francisco and I’m that one weirdo in the bus who can’t stop smiling. 2 hrs till my train 😍.
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One of the most brilliant young minds I know just asked me to be his co-supervisor, and here we are tearing up on a very late and rainy Thu afternoon re-furbishing slide 2.
People first, and how we treat each other matters.
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