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Aaron Parsons
@UCBProf
Father of 3. UC Berkeley Astronomy Professor. Experimental Cosmologist. Working for climate action, math literacy, the scientific method, and a sense of wonder.
Mar 1, 2018 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Enough people are asking that I thought I'd explain in one thread my take on the recent EDGES paper on a possible detection of the global 21cm signal. nature.com/articles/doi:1…. I've done a couple of media interviews: insidescience.org/news/astronome… and sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/s…, but they don't get into the details.
Feb 13, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The cost of our scientific computing equipment has doubled because they are using GPUs to mine bitcoins. BTW, by "bitcoin" I mean cryptocurrency generically. As @ihrachyshka points out, it's probably Ethereum.