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meows at Householder bigradients and other cursed determinants
<raptop>
That looks well done, but I don't get the reference
<raptop>
(...is mass effect even available on pcs?)
<raptop>
apparently
<SnoopJ>
yep
<SnoopJ>
second one has a really satisfying scan-the-planet minigame. absolutely mindless, but satisfying
<SnoopJ>
the premise is FTL running on a forerunner-species network of "mass relays" (the universe phlebotinum is "element zero" which reduces mass, the eponymous effect) and the paper is riffing on that as a planetary survey framework I guess?
<raptop>
ah
<raptop>
And yes, it's very much based on exoplanet surveys
<SnoopJ>
I assume there are some planetary science jokes going over my head in there >_>
<raptop>
I feel like the joke is that they decided to take the systems seriously and apply normal tools for population statistics, orbital stability, and climate
<raptop>
Compare with TEvSS
<SnoopJ>
I was looking at the mass distribution and trying to scrape my brain and see if strong-bimodal was a thing I remembered as a thing
<SnoopJ>
although they point out that the relay system itself is a massive sampling bias
<raptop>
There's a weak bimodal thing in reality
<SnoopJ>
neat
<raptop>
It gets much stronger close in to stars, so you start seeing terms like "radius gap" and "neptune desert"