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Adrian Thompson

@gooble-gabble.bsky.social

Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost hymnoptera.bandcamp.com https://athompson-git.github.io/

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Laura Baudis@lbaudis.bsky.social · last wk.

With XENONnT we observed solar pp neutrinos via neutrino-electron scattering. With an exposure of 2.46 t x y and electron recoil energies from 1 keV to 140 keV (probing neutrinos with energies down to 17 keV) the measured flux is (10.2±2.0)x10^10 cm^-2 s^-1. Read more at: arxiv.org/abs/2608.29450

The solar pp flux estimated from the inference results. Top: The best-fit result is shown as a solid red point. Also plotted are results from combining GALLEX/GNO and SAGE, Borexino, and PandaX-4T. The prediction from the B16-GS98 solar model is indicated by a vertical grey dashed line. Bottom: Log likelihood ratio as a function of the solar pp-flux. Dashed lines indicate different significance levels.
Adrian Thompson@gooble-gabble.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Economist points out the risk to innovation re: patents, but without any cost-benefit discussion, coupled with some very tone deaf comments on fairness. An example retort to this shallow reproach would be this cost-benefit analysis by Jacobin on capital flight risk: jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...

Zohran’s Millionaire Tax Will Raise Revenue

Worries about an exodus of millionaires from New York City are not supported by economics.

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The Economist@economist.com · 7mo ago

Arguments that high earners do not pay their fair share are mostly empty. And squeezing the rich further will raise trifling sums of money, while causing real economic damage

Commonwealth Fusion Systems@cfs.energy · 11mo ago

It’s a great moment to celebrate milestones at CFS — in more ways than one. Today we announced we’re done manufacturing one of our key magnets and putting it through a rigorous, month-long battery of performance tests — which it passed. 1/4 #PowerMoves

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Adrian Thompson@gooble-gabble.bsky.social · 12mo ago

TIL if dealing with (huge_number - huge_number2) which can lead to machine precision noise in python computing, while mpmath can help a lot, sometimes just doing (huge_number.astype('float64') - huge_number2.astype('float64')) does the job more elegantly!

Adrian Thompson@gooble-gabble.bsky.social · last yr.

Do metrics matter? Some interesting statistics on faculty hires in hep-ph/th in the past two years, sourced from the rumor mill and inSPIRE data. For instance, there is a clear bias in offers to higher h-index ~ 15

A histogram of number of faculty shortlists and faculty offers binned by author h-index for papers with 10 authors or less, for 2024-2025 data.