80TB+ of astronomy for the HDD-poor: crossmatch the Universe from your laptop [R]
Today is the day you (🫵!) get access to 80TB plus of data from over 30 astronomical surveys in one place. 4GB of RAM is enough even at Gaia Scale. Check out our writeup here: https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-science/multimodal-universe-hats And a tutorial here https://asciinem
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Today is the day you (🫵!) get access to 80TB plus of data from over 30 astronomical surveys in one place. 4GB of RAM is enough even at Gaia Scale. Check out our writeup here: https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-science/multimodal-universe-hats And a tutorial here https://asciinema.org/a/1259218 &#
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