- youtu.be/dX4vCNi544w?t=1866 this section about numerical simulation is quite interesting. They don't know how to solve the inverse problem, so they just simulated a bunch of different mass combinations
- youtu.be/dX4vCNi544w?t=2290 they use Ubuntu everywhere, default purple desktop. God bless. It's good enough for gravitational wave detection, just not good enough for some shitty enterprise application. Lol.
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