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Cosmology Calculator OS X Widget

As an extragalactic astronomer, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve needed a cosmological calculator. Usually I use the routines built into (or that I’ve written for) the analysis packages I use. Obviously those are best for large calculations; for a more casual query with just a few redshifts, online web-based calculators are [...]

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Astronomy Data Mining

[This was originally posted on orbitingfrog.com.] At .Astronomy 4 in Heidelberg, I began hacking on some natural language processing of the astronomical literature as part of my Hack Day project with Sarah Kendrew and Karen Masters. It began as a version of BrainScanr for astronomy – which it can still become – however it also [...]

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