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    Imaging 20 Galaxies

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021
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    This report is on what I found while imaging the M96 Group. I ended up capturing 20 galaxies. The report details issues both in image processing and image and is a fairly typical representation of
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    The Raspberry Pi is the Future of Open Computing

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on December 29, 2020
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    About a month ago, I got my first Raspberry Pi 4. What is a Raspberry Pi? A Raspberry Pi is a small singe-board computer intended for education and for tinkering. For $35, you get a 1.5GHz quad-core
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    Getting a Telescope: A Cautionary Tale

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on December 22, 2020
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    It’s Christmas or your kiddo’s birthday. They open a telescope and want to take it outside right away. You’ve never used a telescope before, so … 1. You get the automated
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    Creativity, Wanderlust, and the Frontier

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020
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    Context: I started a new Instagram photo blog project @exploringthefrontier. This is my intro… Art and identity are fundamentally linked. Turning 30 has been a constant reevaluation of my
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    Photographing Saturn

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on August 13, 2020
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    I’ve made a lot of progress in 2 months with astrophotography. Here’s my best attempt at Saturn from June 17 and then on August 12. What changed? Phone and telescope stayed the same.
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    Posted in science

    Astronomy

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on July 22, 2020July 22, 2020
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    One thing about frontier life is that you can’t always struggle against the environment. New Mexico is hot, dry, and high elevation. Being outdoors in the summer is physically taxing. What
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    HathiTrust Research Center

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on January 2, 2019
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    For the 2016-18 academic years I was on fellowship or affiliated with the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). The work from that time was finally released in late 2018. A brief summary is below. Data
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    Posted in life

    What have I been up to?

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on December 12, 2018December 12, 2018
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    Hello from the Land of Enchantment! In October, our family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico – our fourth state in two years. Understandably, blogging has been a bit slower, but we’re
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    Posted in compsci, digital humanities

    Towards Cultural-Scale Models of Full Text

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on January 26, 2016January 26, 2016
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    For the past year, Colin and I have been on a HathiTrust Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) Grant. This project has examined how topic models differ between library subject areas. For example, some
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    Posted in cogsci

    Psychonomics 2015

    • Jaimie Murdock
    • posted on November 23, 2015November 23, 2015
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    This weekend I was in Chicago for the Psychonomic Society and Society for Computers in Psychology meetings. Emily and I stayed Thursday through Saturday and experienced a record first snow of the
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