I talked about David W. Hogg's "Why do we do astrophysics?" in our seminar today. Thank to nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq49rjj0nnpcz3470hnrpvrqyfll2yze3w6csllqghjp3eqwxyreuqnaw29v (nprofile…w29v) who posted about it here first!
I can only encourage everyone working in or interested in science and/or fundamental research to read it, it has broad relevance and the crucial parts, to me, are not even the LLM ones, but the ones that define the basis on which LLM use in astro is discussed.
▶️ https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181v1
A few quotes:
1/6
#astrodon #astrophysics #science #AcademicChatter
Dr. Victoria Grinberg
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