Dr. Juande Santander-Vela

@juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

PhD in radio astronomy and VO; Joint ALMA Observatory Development Systems Engineer. Half astronomer, half Systems engineer, half developer (those halves overlap!) […]

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@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Oct 12, 2026, 6:16 PMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

What’s that you say? There’s a significant sleaze factor (some Nvidia-bankrolled) in certain #Genai - boom sectors and cracks are starting to show up? I’m shocked… shocked […]

@fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 11:35 PMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

The full sky in the ultraviolet

https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/

"This is the whole sky in ultraviolet light — the first detailed version with no holes in it. Most of it was photographed by NASA’s GALEX space telescope between 2003 and 2013; the parts no […]

[Original post on beige.party]

Image from https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/ – ultraviolet

Image from https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/ – visible

Image from https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/ – infrared

@brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 12, 2026, 9:22 AMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

I see the inventor of gravy granules had the Nobel Prize for cookery bistoed upon him.

@fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy Oct 12, 2026, 1:55 AMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

An extension to check whether a web page has been posted to:

― Hacker News
― Lemmy
― Lobsters
― Mastodon
― Reddit.

Would anyone like to test upcoming versions?

#Fediverse #Firefox #HackerNews #Lemmy Lobsters #Mastodon #Reddit #test

Screenshot: version 0.2.1 found https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007 in Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobsters, and Mastodon.

Screenshot: version 0.2.1 found https://creativecommons.org/2026/09/21/a-principled-approach-as-the-sands-shift/ in Mastodon.

Screenshot: version 0.2.1 found https://www.science.org/content/article/six-biology-breakthroughs-should-have-won-nobel-prize-didn-t in Hacker News and Mastodon.

Screenshot: version 0.2.1 found https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/turkish-crackdown-lgbtq-organizations-threatens-freedom-expression-and-association in Lemmy and Mastodon.

@jdsantpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 3:19 PMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Slow onwards and upwards #snail #caracol #dots #DottedLine

This image shows a snail with a dark, patterned shell moving slowly across a rough, gray tarmac surface, right next to the edge of a curb. The path goes from the bottom left corner to the top right corner.

@jdsantpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 2:23 PMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Follow the dotted line at snail pace / Sigue la línea de puntos a paso de caracol #snail #caracol #dots #DottedLine #SCurve #CurvaS

This image features a snail with a brown and yellow patterned shell on a rough, textured asphalt surface, next to a light-colored wall. There is a trail of small, dark, wet-looking spots leading and fading as they are further away from the snail. The trail starts on the bottom left corner, goes up, then a bit in diagonal, and then swerves at the last part up and to the left, but still arrives to the top left corner.

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 10:45 PMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Color Study: Fujifilm vs Pixel
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/10/10/Color-Study-Fuji-vs-Pixel

#fujifilm #photography

Fallen autumn leaves, mostly maple, in dappled light.

@jdsantpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 2:56 AMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

The shadow of an evening. / La sombra de una tarde.

#Shadows #Table #Flowers #SquareFormat #Sombras #Mesa #Flores #FormatoCuadrado

@brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 11:38 AMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Just how much longer will UK and Europe kick the can down the road over digital sovereignty, after Comb-over Caligula ordered a ban on US entities making transactions with the International Criminal Court, because its former judge Navi Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize (and she […]

@tomgauld.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:47 AMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"

@dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 1:46 AMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Ordered a new laptop battery from @iFixit. It was below spec out of the box and after calibration. I told them and provided backing data. They said, Sorry! We're sending you a replacement! No need to return the one we sent; just dispose of it carefully.

Now you know why I trust IFixIt.

@bigboppa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 10:30 PMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

My sister in law came up to the cabin this week to see the fall colors. The weather was mostly cold and windy until today so she was able to get the money shot early this morning when the lake was as smooth as glass.

#Photography

The tree line from across the lake with the leaves in full color and reflection on the still water in mirror image.

@juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 1:59 PM

Having said that, I really don’t think one should not use abusive language. I just could not understand the future “liberation rooms” (or something like that) on OMAC’s comics. Those were rooms in which people could abuse human-looking robots to vent frustration, and I found it very sad. Are […]

@juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 1:23 PM

Of course, we need to take care of the poor matrix multiplication bit-streaming machines. But let’s say nothing of the harm induced to the actual people (normally from countries outside of the USA and Europe) exposed to actual psychologically harming inputs and outputs… […]

@juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 1:14 PM

Yay! SPIE has already published my paper on how we’re ensuring the system integrity for the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade for ALMA, and the HTML version looks neat, and does not require login. DOI link below!

https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3102359

From there, you can also get the video […]

@fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 2:19 AMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

FreeBSD Journal, ArtCraft, PDFCraft, FreeBSD-CURRENT

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1x182uc/artcraft_controllable_ai_for_artists/

#AI #FreeBSD #PDF #Adobe

Screenshot: parts of the most recent FreeBSD Journal in PDFCraft.

@juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 1:02 AM

Best console ever.

@discontinued.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 10:20 PMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Hey, remember Wii?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii

#discontinued #nostalgia

An image related to the linked discontinued product or service.

@juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 1:01 AM

@timbray @jn as a foreign English speaker, I don’t find it “sloppy”, much less “AI sloppy”. I think the way the page is presented breaks a lot of textual conventions.

@vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 7:12 AMReposted by @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

There is something to the bird's eye view. A city - Paris. Lines of wind turbines along the outer crests of Pyrenees. Deep shadows of morning light behind the hills.Fog collecting in the deep valley of a river. A village clustered on top of a hill. Solar panel fields. Perspective. A reminder […]

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