Dr. Mehnaaz Asad
@mehnaazasad.bsky.social
Phd, Astrophysics 💫 respawning as a Data Scientist and NLP enthusiast 👩🏽💻🦾 When I'm not working with LLMs, I'm drinking tea ☕️ and gaming 🎮 she/her
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I periodically return to the Apollo 11 Journal: www.nasa.gov/history/alsj...
There's a sense of being in the presence of a modern sacred text. It's interesting, too, because it's so nuts-and-bolts. But underlying it...
There's a sense of being in the presence of a modern sacred text. It's interesting, too, because it's so nuts-and-bolts. But underlying it...
Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal
www.nasa.gov
March 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I periodically return to the Apollo 11 Journal: www.nasa.gov/history/alsj...
There's a sense of being in the presence of a modern sacred text. It's interesting, too, because it's so nuts-and-bolts. But underlying it...
There's a sense of being in the presence of a modern sacred text. It's interesting, too, because it's so nuts-and-bolts. But underlying it...
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my personal favorite comic of 2024
January 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
my personal favorite comic of 2024
as a viz idea alone this is so neat!! 🤩 but it also demystifies multi-wavelength images so well!!
Whoa, indeed!
Here is a ViewSpace interactive slider that I worked on, giving a multi-wavelength view of Centaurus A.
viewspace.org/interactives...
Here is a ViewSpace interactive slider that I worked on, giving a multi-wavelength view of Centaurus A.
viewspace.org/interactives...
ViewSpace | Black Holes: Centaurus A
Studying a nearby supermassive black hole in detail.
viewspace.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:09 AM
as a viz idea alone this is so neat!! 🤩 but it also demystifies multi-wavelength images so well!!
baby galaxyyy 🥹🤩🤩
Behold the Firefly Sparkle galaxy! 🤩 We're seeing this incredible tiny galaxy as it existed only 600 million years after the big bang, & at a stage similar to what our Milky Way galaxy likely went through. More: science.nasa.gov/missions/web... #jwst
December 11, 2024 at 5:15 PM
baby galaxyyy 🥹🤩🤩
While I agree that LLMs making up facts confidently is a problem (although Claude 3.5 feels like it’s gotten better at saying “I don’t know”), I disagree with the absoluteness of this statement. As for reasoning, I’ve worked alongside Claude (which I prefer) for many things - code, prompt
I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.
I really think many if not most of the LLM fail cases are people trying to use it as a search engine. It is the opposite of a search engine.
December 4, 2024 at 9:43 PM
While I agree that LLMs making up facts confidently is a problem (although Claude 3.5 feels like it’s gotten better at saying “I don’t know”), I disagree with the absoluteness of this statement. As for reasoning, I’ve worked alongside Claude (which I prefer) for many things - code, prompt
last night my local theatre (and my fav place in nashville) @belcourttheatre.bsky.social 🫶🏽 showed a 35mm screening of pulp fiction and getting to re-watch it on the big screen with other pulp fiction fans was truly amazing! 🍔👑
December 1, 2024 at 11:22 PM
last night my local theatre (and my fav place in nashville) @belcourttheatre.bsky.social 🫶🏽 showed a 35mm screening of pulp fiction and getting to re-watch it on the big screen with other pulp fiction fans was truly amazing! 🍔👑
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‼️ New #jwst image alert ‼️ This gorgeous new view of the Sombrero galaxy shows that unlike in the visible-light images, the brightly glowing core of the galaxy doesn't shine, but we see instead a smooth inner disk, & we can see new details of the outer ring. More: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
November 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
‼️ New #jwst image alert ‼️ This gorgeous new view of the Sombrero galaxy shows that unlike in the visible-light images, the brightly glowing core of the galaxy doesn't shine, but we see instead a smooth inner disk, & we can see new details of the outer ring. More: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
me opening Bluesky every now and then
November 24, 2024 at 4:30 PM
me opening Bluesky every now and then
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This is an incorrect calculation of the area of a triangle by a young Babylonian student at school around 1900-1600 BCE, excavated from the ancient city of Kish.
It’s a moment in the history of math, of education, of children, of mistakes, of people being people. I love it.
It’s a moment in the history of math, of education, of children, of mistakes, of people being people. I love it.
November 23, 2024 at 1:46 PM
This is an incorrect calculation of the area of a triangle by a young Babylonian student at school around 1900-1600 BCE, excavated from the ancient city of Kish.
It’s a moment in the history of math, of education, of children, of mistakes, of people being people. I love it.
It’s a moment in the history of math, of education, of children, of mistakes, of people being people. I love it.
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
👋🏽😃 from tweets to… bluesks?
November 20, 2024 at 7:21 PM
👋🏽😃 from tweets to… bluesks?