A boring skeptic

[boringskeptic]

HoTMaiL

How many of you had a HoTMaiL.com email address **before** it was bought by Microsoft? Of those, how many of you still have that address active and able to receive? How old are you? (I'm 55.) :-D

[boringskeptic]

GitHub - CoryAlbrecht/planet-power-law-distribution

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The chart shows some clear patterns worth noting: The red cluster (sparse slices, n < 20) in the 10²³–10²⁴ range is very noisy — b swings from -0.42 to +1.42, which makes sense given only 6–17 data points going into the MCMC. Don't trust those.

The blue points tell a more interesting story — there appear to be at least two regimes:

1) Around 10²⁴–10²⁶ kg, b is scattered near 0 with high b_std, suggesting the sampler is struggling to find a consistent slope — this is likely the transition zone between Durand-Manterola's Class A/B boundary (~5×10²⁵ kg)

2) From ~10²⁶ kg upward, b converges tightly around -0.257 with very small b_std — that's a strong, stable signal in the Jovian/Class C regime

The fact that b is negative in the upper mass range is physically interesting — it means radius shrinks slightly with increasing mass for gas giants, which is consistent with electron degeneracy pressure effects in the Jovian regime. Durand-Manterola's Class C exponent from the paper would be the direct comparison point as wider slices are run.

Updated: Exoplanets characteristics analyzer. Code for Bayesian analysis of data slices with a sliding window is now there, but currently hard-coded, not yet able to be user set. But that will come soon.

[boringskeptic]

GitHub - CoryAlbrecht/planet-power-law-distribution

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Updated, v0.2.0: Exoplanets plotted by mass vs. radius. Now with better weighting and filtering of data: 3,158 records from the NASA Exoplanet Archive.

citizenscience #astronomy #astrophysics #science #exoplanet

[boringskeptic]

Exoplanets plotted by mass vs. radius. 1,654 records from the NASA Exoplanet Archive where mass and radius are measured, not marked as "calculated"

GitHub - CoryAlbrecht/planet-power-law-distribution

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Finished reading "Bookshops and Bonedust" by Travis Baldree https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65213543-bookshops-bonedust

#book #cozy #fantasy

[boringskeptic]

Sorcery and Small Magics

Finished reading "Sorcery and Small Magics" by Maiga Doocy. #books #fiction #fantasy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199826249-sorcery-and-small-magics

Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)

Desperate to undo the curse binding them to each other,…

[boringskeptic]

New Minnesota R___? by CoryCA on DeviantArt

Per pale uneven: dexter, azure, an estoile of eight points argent, one point to chief; sinister, celeste, a timberwolf tricipital passant, the uppermost head ululant, the middle head guardant, the lower head défléchi, all proper in sable, azure, celeste, and argent. ---

Field: Per pale uneven, dexter approximately one-third: azure (dark, of the sky); sinister: celeste (bright, of the waters).

Dexter charge: An estoile of eight points argent, one point oriented to chief.

Sinister charge: A timberwolf tricipital — that is, a single wolf of three heads — depicted in full-body profile passant, rendered in the tinctures sable, azure, celeste, and argent. The uppermost head is ululant (howling), chin raised to chief; the middle head is guardant, facing dexter; the lowermost head is défléchi (inclined toward base), in the attitude of scenting the ground. The body is that of one beast entire, the three necks rising from a single form.

The beast faces the sinister, as though regarding the waters of the state.

--- Made for the Cafae Latte universe, but inspired by the flag of the New California Republic from the Fallout universe. Bob, Cyrus, and the CaFae Latte gang for the nucleus of an anti-ICE movement called either the "New Minnesota Resistance" or the "New Minnesota Republic". The fandom can decide on that. :-D

[boringskeptic]

Exit Strategy

I just finished reading: Exit Strategy #MurderbotDiaries4 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35519109-exit-strategy #books #scifi ★★★★☆

Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision t…

[boringskeptic]

The End of All Things

Finished reading: The End of All Things https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168809-the-end-of-all-things

The End of All Things (Old Man's War, #6)

Humans expanded into space…only to find a universe popu…

[assignedmale]

Say it with me.

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[frontmansdefender]

I grew up in Thailand and I remember growing up with THIS AD on our TV. also I can confirm a lot of Thai ads are this unhinged, we didn’t even know how funny they were because they were just so common there you could literally see something this unhinged on your TV all the time lmaooooo

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[tlaquetzqui]

Except their life insurance ads, which will make you cry like Deku.

[dduane]

This is gripping stuff. 10/10, good sound drama curve...

[frontmansdefender]

I grew up in Thailand and I remember growing up with THIS AD on our TV. also I can confirm a lot of Thai ads are this unhinged, we didn’t even know how funny they were because they were just so common there you could literally see something this unhinged on your TV all the time lmaooooo

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[tlaquetzqui]

Except their life insurance ads, which will make you cry like Deku.

[dduane]

This is gripping stuff. 10/10, good sound drama curve...

[assignedmale]

"Democratic backsliding" is the process through which modern authoritarianism happens.

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[boringskeptic]

Hopefully it is earned…

Nothing says confidence in your own sysadmin skills by doing apt upgrade; restart remotely on your home server when you cannot get home for two days to fix anything if it doesn't come back online. ;-)

[assignedmale]

A useful glossary for 2025.