i nerd sniped myself tonight and i imagine the NSA operative who is assigned to me is very confused by the increasingly erratic and frustrated google searches for HOW DO I CALCULATE THE MOON WHERE IS THE MOON
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
@aeva are you modeling real life or an approximation of it?
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@aeva are you modeling real life or an approximation of it?
@efi yes
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
@aeva is this one of those things where the approximate solution that drifts from reality by 0.0004% every year is like 3 lines and the more correct one is 5 pages of dense research and no one who writes about it is concerned with the idea that a reader may be a beginner and not know the difference
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
@aeva I love the way everyone uses different names for parameters, and does everything from the POV of an observational astronomer ... Really useful for simulation work.
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
@aeva i believe all our physical models diverge from reality on a long enough timescale. even quantum mechanics. every model is lossy compression / fitting of reality that we extrapolate from, starting at the time that the underlying measurements were taken.
best thing i can think of is measure exact position of celestial bodies, then run a sufficiently detailed n-body sim with best guesses for all state we can not measure, starting at that point. and then restart every year.
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@aeva is this one of those things where the approximate solution that drifts from reality by 0.0004% every year is like 3 lines and the more correct one is 5 pages of dense research and no one who writes about it is concerned with the idea that a reader may be a beginner and not know the difference
@halcy there's no closed form solution at all and from what i can tell the good solutions need to be rejiggered every few decades to stay accurate
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@halcy there's no closed form solution at all and from what i can tell the good solutions need to be rejiggered every few decades to stay accurate
@halcy the real problem here is that academic astronomy best practice is to tie everything into spherical coordinates on the firmament so they can factor out the earth enough that you can pretend it is a fixed vantage point that doesn't spin, and if god forbid you do need to tie an observation to geographic coordinates for some reason i guess you just burn an undergrad on it and not sully yourself with the indignity
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@halcy the real problem here is that academic astronomy best practice is to tie everything into spherical coordinates on the firmament so they can factor out the earth enough that you can pretend it is a fixed vantage point that doesn't spin, and if god forbid you do need to tie an observation to geographic coordinates for some reason i guess you just burn an undergrad on it and not sully yourself with the indignity
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@halcy the real problem here is that academic astronomy best practice is to tie everything into spherical coordinates on the firmament so they can factor out the earth enough that you can pretend it is a fixed vantage point that doesn't spin, and if god forbid you do need to tie an observation to geographic coordinates for some reason i guess you just burn an undergrad on it and not sully yourself with the indignity
@halcy i've got a feeling that this is what a self taught programmer feels when they try to work out how to sort stuff faster and everything they find is either programmers telling eachother to just use a library or academic formalist nonsense
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Ho creato da un'oretta forse questo account su Poliversity.
Dal mio account su Poliverso vedo i post ma il profilo risulta senza foto.
Come mai?
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@davidsegarra
Buon vento 🍀🐞
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Ahia... la foto profilo che ho messo su Mastodon (e che è la stessa di qua) non si vede. Forse ci vuole un po' perché arrivi?
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Yall think I'm joking, but I'm not 😂 Speaking as my own target customer, I would 100% drop good money on a yoga retreat somewhere warm that also has cats, nature, hikes, the sea close by, and cooking classes by Greek nonna's.
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Oh vedi Giangiovanni Tizio della polizia penitenziaria è arrivato ultimo alle qualificazioni del lancio del giavellotto ma quanto mi dispiace #spiacione
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Ok i mondiali di atletica ma come si fa a tifare se poi stanno tutti nelle fiamme oro, fiamme gialle, fiamme azzurre, fiamme tricolori... #sbirraglia
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Questo utente è il duplicato di @max, come vedete anche la foto profilo è la stessa.
L'ho creato per fare un po' di esperienza su Mastodon visto che di là si usa Friendica.
Se mi seguite di là e volete seguirmi anche di qua conviene che mi mandiate la richiesta di "follow".
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@emmecola Buona domenica. Questa è la storia della mia vita quest'estate. :)
