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I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS...
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[AI summary] Ariel Kellison, a new Research Engineer at Galois, discusses the application of formal methods in scientific computing to ensure the correctness and reliability of large-scale simulations, highlighting the importance of rigorous verification techniques in domains like climate modeling and public health.
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[AI summary] The author details how GNU Guix's functional package management and isolated build environment solve the challenges of deploying software across a heterogeneous HPC infrastructure with multiple Linux distributions.
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"Druggable genome" is a novel concept that emphasizes the importance of using the information of genome-wide genetic studies for drug discovery and developme...
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