UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> … one of the other grad students just compared me to nomal O_o | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<whitequark> soundnfury: it's even worse
<whitequark> the D- and L-prefixes in some cases (like in case of aldohexoses) don't correspond to optical activity at all
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<Technicalfool> apparently I'm the proud owner of a whalechurch now.
<Technicalfool> egg, you are an absolute McMuffin.
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn Technicalfool
* Qboid gives Technicalfool a first/follow submersion
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<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:wpn wombat
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Weapon already added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:wpn platypus
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Weapon added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:wpn quokka
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Weapon already added!
<UmbralRaptor> bofh_: AAAAAAAAA
<UmbralRaptor> (re: russian_nuclear_safety.pdf)
<Ellied> spectroscopy is fun!
<Ellied> I (techincally) took the first data with the big thing tonight. It sucks because my photodiode circuit sucks, but at least I've proved it works
<Ellied> turns out if you're running a cable like a meter across the table, it's good for the impedance of the analog signal it's carrying to be a *little* less than 10 Mohms.
<SnoopJeDi> ooh you built a spectrometer?
<SnoopJeDi> Wow, that juicer that's been stirring up all kinds of drama is pretty insane on the inside https://blog.bolt.io/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50
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<soundnfury> !wpn -add:wpn haversine
<Qboid> soundnfury: Weapon added!
<egg|cell|egg> !Wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a cathode zone
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|cell|egg
* Qboid gives egg|cell|egg a dysprosium scalar
* UmbralRaptor still awaits <egg|nature|egg> and <egg|science|egg>
<UmbralRaptor> !wa <egg|PLOS|egg>
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Seems that Wolfram is unable to understand that.
<UmbralRaptor> !wa <egg|ArXiv|egg>
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Seems that Wolfram is unable to understand that.
<UmbralRaptor> hrm
<Ellied> SnoopJeDi: Didn't build it. It's a TRIAX, big research-grade thing that probably costs five times my annual income. I just figured out how to talk to it - its only software was designed for windows 3.1 and there really wasn't a lot of documentation, so it was a lot of guesswork and trial and error.
<Ellied> it's a hell of a spectrometer, though. The resolution is down to single picometers.
<egg|cell|egg> !Wpn UmbralRaptor GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor GreeningGalaxy an aluminium lamp
<egg|cell|egg> Does GreeningGalaxy still ping you?
* egg|cell|egg pokes ellied with a stick
<egg|cell|egg> Also PHAT is pretty
<SnoopJeDi> neat
<SnoopJeDi> Ellied, are you familiar with Applied Science? His videos are neat in general and he did a DIY Raman spectroscopy setup that I liked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRrOdKW06sk
<kmath> YouTube - Intro to DIY Raman Spectroscopy
<Ellied> egg|cell|egg: no, it doesn't. maybe it should
<Ellied> SnoopJeDi: cool, I'll check that out when I get a chance
<SnoopJeDi> (other projects I've liked are homemade aerogel and viewing a decapped 555 IC in a custom electron microscope)
<SnoopJeDi> the decapped 555 uhhh does not last long, but it's neat
<egg|cell|egg> GreeningGalaxy: well, i still tend to call you greening, and my phone keeps autocompleting GreeningGalaxy after Wpn etc too
<UmbralRaptor> Ellied: o_O Does it have an R of 1e9, or something?
<kmath> <astronomeara> “I was suspicious of astronomy as a field where one could earn a living” Blair Savage at #uvmetals
<egg|cell|egg> !Wpn 古在
* Qboid gives 古在 a gold router
<egg|cell|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* UmbralRaptor needs to figure out how to get the kozai mechanism into his thesis. >_.
<UmbralRaptor> * >_>
* egg|cell|egg pets UmbralRaptor with the 古在 mechanism
* egg|cell|egg stares at rain
* UmbralRaptor is perurbed.
<UmbralRaptor> *perturbed
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* UmbralRaptor pokes RV surveys with a harp.
<egg|cell|egg> A harp?
<UmbralRaptor> HARPS?
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: [HARPS] => High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher
<egg|cell|egg> Hah
<UmbralRaptor> ESPRESSO?
<UmbralRaptor> !acr -add:ESPRESSO Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<egg|cell|egg> O_o
* UmbralRaptor looks at projected xp this time next year.
* UmbralRaptor worries.
<SnoopJeDi> that when you figure you'll be on the market, UmbralRaptor?
<UmbralRaptor> Probably.
<UmbralRaptor> Graduate may 2018, not optimistic about getting into a phd program.
<SnoopJeDi> No? You seem like a strong candidate to me
<kmath> <Iron_Spike> So hey, here's a thing I learned at the con this weekend. During a Q&A, an aspiring artist asked a Dark Horse panel: "Does drama = sales?"
<UmbralRaptor> SnoopJeDi: hard to tell from the inside, but the rejections from the 2 programs I applied for (with my advisors encouragement) last fall and probable rejection from LSST data science fellowship…
<SnoopJeDi> What field(s) are you interested in going forward?
<SnoopJeDi> (I'd be happy to put you in touch with local astro folks, regardless)
<UmbralRaptor> Exoplanets in general, possibly other time domain data. I'm sorta hesitant on extragalactic, given that the scales feel a bit abstract and I ultimately got nowhere with that morphology project.
<UmbralRaptor> This might be in tension with eg: Hobby Eberly Telescope's primary project.
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<oeuf> UmbralRaptor: have you tried places outside the US?
<oeuf> [your periodic reminder that there are such places]
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<SnoopJeDi> I think there's *some* exoplanet here, I know there was one student working directly on Kepler data when I came here...
<SnoopJeDi> Just let me know if you want to speak to people who know more about our local business I suppose, UmbralRaptor, the astro grad students are all very friendly/helpful
<SnoopJeDi> (the one who got into the LSST-DSF has been trying to make a late-career convert out of me for the last two years)
<UmbralRaptor> hah!
<SnoopJeDi> I'd be a liar if I said I hadn't seriously considered it
<UmbralRaptor> !acr -add:LSSTDSFP LSST Data Science Fellowship Program
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<SnoopJeDi> Hmm, NASA is doing a hackathon this weekend in Houston
<SnoopJeDi> on the other hand, having to be in Houston by 8 am on a Saturday :|
<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an abelian explosion
<UmbralRaptor> commutative explosion!
<UmbralRaptor> egg: not quite sure where to go with EU, given a comparative lack of knowledge of programs.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: maybe e_14159 knows about things?
<egg> obviously you know about crows
<UmbralRaptor> Yeah, there is the extragalactic/machine learning crow at ETHZ.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: you could learn about eggstragalactic machines!
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<e_14159> UmbralRaptor: How can I help you with eu programs?
<UmbralRaptor> e_14159: Mainly with what would you recommend for an American (languages? What are those?) interested in exoplanet programs?
<e_14159> Hm. I cannot actually point you to eggsoplanet groups; I don't know any.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: at a phd level languages shouldn't be an issue
<e_14159> On the other hand, I have good news on the language front: That won't be an issue.
<egg> odd as that etymologically sounds, english is the linga franca
<e_14159> In my office room, there's another German, an Indian, and a Pakistani. The latter speaks no German, and the Indian speaks okay German. I wouldn't consider that office language combination as unusual.
<egg> in my (work, not academia) office, my manager is a native speaker of german, and my tech lead is a swede
<egg> plenty of romanians on the floor
<egg> a handful of french
<egg> I regularly overhear [unidentified slavic language]
<e_14159> It's actually quite amusing hearing the two talking in Hindi (at least, I assume) with about 20% words in English.
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<Iskierka> egg: lots of CS romanians over there too?
<egg|nomz|egg> Iskierka: at least at google ZRH, yes
<egg|nomz|egg> !wpn e_14159
* Qboid gives e_14159 an apochromatic tensor
<egg|nomz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a sulfur inverter
<e_14159> Thank you.
<egg|nomz|egg> !wpn e_14159
* Qboid gives e_14159 a haversine
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<soundnfury> !wpn egg|nomz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|nomz|egg a practical resonator which strongly resembles a shard
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<egg> !WPN UMBRALRAPTOR
* Qboid gives UMBRALRAPTOR a pyro ovoid blizzard
* e_14159 hands egg a FORTRAN
<kmath> <eggleroy> ? Cartan, the new release of Principia, is out, bringing the target LVLH frame, which allows for rendezvous planning.https://t.co/kXW7JXT5qW
<egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a killing nonagon
<regex> Is the Cartan binary downloadable?
<egg> regex: it is!
<kmath> <allgebrah> a "we rate spiders" account with ratings of x/8
<kmath> <yonatanzunger> How spider babby is formed https://t.co/AJCf8Vlp9k
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<regex> Yay!
<egg> UmbralRaptor: observatorycats is observing a whole lot of dark cats
<egg> UmbralRaptor: the feline model of dark matter?
<UmbralRaptor> Dust grains ~30 cm on diameter
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<UmbralRaptor> Always fun when you use a query to download a file in $format, and the last several lines are xml error messages >_<
<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a vegetable hexagon
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a bit-addressable bot/GIF hybrid
<whitequark> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a critical series
<egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a solenoidal formalism
<egg> !wpn Nomal
* Qboid gives Nomal a panzer which vaguely resembles an explosion
<soundnfury> !wpn
* Qboid gives soundnfury an IDE
<soundnfury> well that's useless
<soundnfury> though possibly not quite as useless as Nomal's apparently-exploding panzer
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<kmath> YouTube - Rotate Your Owl