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24 alternatives to Episode 34 - Stuart Mumford on SunPy
Stuart Mumford tells us about SunPy and solar physics
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Episode 34 - Stuart Mumford on SunPy launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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An insightful look behind the scenes of the Pluto probe.
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I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
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Hello HN! Sharing a recent side project of mine, the Atlas of Space, that I built out to explore the Solar System. As a long-time space nerd, I realized recently that I didn't have a good intuition on the scale, speed, and relative orientation of the celestial bodies around us. So over the break I built out a kind of spatial Wikipedia to click around and learn about planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun. The physics is all simulated in the browser using simple Newtonian mechanics. There's a lot left to do from here, including modeling objects in non-Keplerian orbits…
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Free course on how the world works from the YouTube star.
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And exoplanetary scientist Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer
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An interview about the Python AST and the ASTroid package.
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