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.
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<SnoopJeDi> Today's colloquium was the best so far this year. On the possibility that solar system formation was kicked off by a low-mass supernova
<SnoopJeDi> second author of this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13639 presenting mostly the work summarized therein
<UmbralRaptor> Fun.
<UmbralRaptor> Today we went of a Bayesian Magic™ reanalysis of the Proxima Centauri B data.
<UmbralRaptor> s/of/over/
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor meant to say: Today we went over a Bayesian Magic™ reanalysis of the Proxima Centauri B data.
<soundnfury> Hmmm. Kinda makes my distributed build queue development seem a bit underwhelming by comparison.
<SnoopJeDi> UmbralRaptor, it was also just the guy's delivery. rare to see a speaker who understands their audience very well and can simultaneously speak broad strokes to the uninitiated-but-still-competent folks without sacrificing technical details for savvy people
<SnoopJeDi> and, at the risk of saying something kinda racist, even rarer to see that in a Chinese speaker
<soundnfury> !wpn SnoopJeDi
* Qboid gives SnoopJeDi a gold correction
<SnoopJeDi> I'm sorry Qboid, it's true!
* SnoopJeDi pokes UmbralRaptor with https://twitter.com/Exosaurs
<UmbralRaptor> I have an urge to be terribly pedantic.
<UmbralRaptor> https://twitter.com/Exosaurs/status/857746195149721600 <-- either this is a modern avian dinosaur (probably not intended), or a pterosaur (erm...)
<kmath> <Exosaurs> The Asterisk Machine, Limnornis of CoRoT-7 b
<UmbralRaptor> Also, CoRoT-7 b is that super earth that could be pure iron, right?
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<UmbralRaptor> Huh, estimated planet temperature: 1300-1800 K
<UmbralRaptor> Atmosphere: rock vapor
<SnoopJeDi> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
<UmbralRaptor> It's an amusing bot idea, but seems like it would produce lots of silly results.
<SnoopJeDi> I only know of it because of https://twitter.com/ExoPalettes which is far more clever
<UmbralRaptor> Shiny
<UmbralRaptor> Have you seen https://twitter.com/CrookedCosmos ?
<SnoopJeDi> NEAT
<SnoopJeDi> also NO
<SnoopJeDi> Twitter bots seem to be enjoying an uptick right now
<SnoopJeDi> Seen a bunch of articles about them lately, I think the chatbot craze is over
<SnoopJeDi> I put the death day on my calendar last week :(
<Ellied> tbh I'm more interested in what people would do with the guts (motor, gearbox, etc) of the juicero than as an assembled press
<Ellied> but otoh I doubt many people interested in dismantling it bothered to buy one
<SnoopJeDi> Probably more after that post than before
<SnoopJeDi> The teardown, I mean
<Ellied> man, spectroscopy is neat.
<Ellied> what's also neat is controlling a spectrometer in a different part of the city from my bed.
<SnoopJeDi> I had the recent pleasure of explaining that the reason why the Michelson interferometer is so freakishly accurate is that counting is the one measurement we can do with effectively infinite precision
<Ellied> heh
<Ellied> the spectrometer I'm working on is intense, but it's still not really even close to as accurate as the michelson interferometer for telling closely-spaced lines apart.
<SnoopJeDi> yea not a terribly related thing to say, but I'm a bit loopy at the moment
<SnoopJeDi> (which *is* relevant: I got 15 turns out of my cyclotron model today!)
<Ellied> nice!
<Ellied> damn, no wonder nobody has 1 GOhm resistors. There's nothing cheap about 'em.
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<bofh_> Ellied: so wait a second, why do you need 1GOhm resistors?
<bofh_> does your transimpedance amp have sufficient gain *and linearity* for them to be both useful and necessary?
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* UmbralRaptor looks at next week's schedule.
<UmbralRaptor> Aaaaaaaa!
<UmbralRaptor> (3 talks on 2 different topics)
<kmath> <APOGEEsurvey> RT @rareflwr41: @APOGEEsurvey Mark: Nature could be kind, or it could be nature. #iaus330
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<Ellied> bofh_: I think so; I'm operating on extremely low light levels
<Ellied> I want a 1G feedback resistor so I can have a gain of a billion
<Ellied> it's *really easy* to stop down the light if I need to, but not very easy to boost it up, so it makes sense to just go nuts with the gain
<whitequark> Ellied: umm
<whitequark> you could just like
<whitequark> use a PMT
<bofh_> in fact this is basically the exact use-case for PMTs
<Ellied> yeah I know, the grad students are going to start working on a PMT with me whenever they feel like getting going
<Ellied> but I've been having a lot of fun playing with photodiodes
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<kmath> <donttrythis> Hey!! I love all of you and here's a note that elucidates my thoughts on some of the complex debates happening on m… https://t.co/ooRxfamYaR
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<SnoopJeDi> This was a good paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05260
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: hmm, WASD make CMYK prints on their keyboards now; should I make a PHAT keyboard >_>
<egg|zzz|egg> (to go with the PHAT screen background I have at work)
<Ellied> whitequark / bofh_ : photodiodes are pretty linear if you operate them far from saturation in photovoltaic mode, right?
<Iskierka> whyyy would you make an ebook only available to US shipping addresses
<Ellied> wha? who does that
<Ellied> that's weird
<Iskierka> this is, ofc, where it's available at all. Amazon doesn't show it anywhere (though counts one more edition than listed so I KNOW YOU MADE A KINDLE VERSION, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE. JUST SELL IT ALREADY, I'D'VE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED PAYING AS MUCH AS THE HARDBACK
<Ellied> I hope this GDT is up for being run for the 2+ hours it will take to record its spectrum
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: or any other ideas for a spacelike keyboard design
<SnoopJeDi> Publishing is a weird industry
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a triple ristretto
<egg|zzz|egg> a surprisingly reasonable output from Qboid
<egg|zzz|egg> if a bit strong
<soundnfury> egg|zzz|egg: I choose to believe it means an extremely intense passage in a fugue.
<soundnfury> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a Darboux hexagon
<egg|zzz|egg> saolof in #principia says the LVLH frame is nice
<egg|zzz|egg> that's good, I had no idea whether it was going to pan out (very different from stock's approach)
<SnoopJeDi> 1969 pieces hehe
<egg|zzz|egg> :D
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<kmath> <eevee> good morning, here's pearl https://t.co/9fn0K1sJWN
<kmath> <scanlime> Window perch with @TucoTheCat https://t.co/CrpQgK0v00
<kmath> <ObservatoryCats> When you get retweeted by @SwiftOnSecurity ? https://t.co/Nf7R4hzMOC
<whitequark> egg|zzz|egg: is some bot recording the cat pics
<whitequark> actually for a moment I thought we have a neural network somewhere here recognizing them
<soundnfury> !wpn cat
* Qboid gives cat a gallium integrand
<whitequark> !wpn -add:wpn cat
<Qboid> whitequark: Weapon already added!
<whitequark> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a visual thyristor
<soundnfury> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a serpentine
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: sadly, no, to both questions
<soundnfury> ... is that a wpn or an adj?
<whitequark> !wpn -add:adj cat
<Qboid> whitequark: Adjective added!
<kmath> <KatsKitties> Human is having a cheese snack again. https://t.co/R2gwPo6dj2
<soundnfury> ... I meant the serpentine, but sure, cat can be an adj too I guess vOv
<egg|zzz|egg> soundnfury: [why can't we have both]
<UmbralRaptor> whitequark: we do. The neural network is just housed in an egg.
<egg|zzz|egg> ah, yes,
<soundnfury> !wpn -add:adj unapologetic
<Qboid> soundnfury: Adjective added!
<soundnfury> !wpn -add:adj diastolic
<Qboid> soundnfury: Adjective added!
<soundnfury> !wpn -add:adj diabolic
<Qboid> soundnfury: Adjective added!
<soundnfury> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg an Oxford equivalence
<soundnfury> here's an equivalence: Oxonians ~ morons
<soundnfury> (that's where the word "oxymoron" comes from, of course)
* egg|zzz|egg slaps soundnfury in the tab
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj Ляпуно́в
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
* egg|zzz|egg slaps UmbralRaptor in the accent
<egg|zzz|egg> !csharp "о́"[0]
<Qboid> 'о'
<UmbralRaptor> Blame wikiality.
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -remove:adj Ляпуно́в
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective removed!
<SnoopJeDi> soundnfury, HAH!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj Ляпунов
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<SnoopJeDi> you're on ? this week
<soundnfury> !u ?
<Qboid> U+1F525 FIRE (?)
<soundnfury> ah
<soundnfury> !wpn -add:wpn extinguisher
<Qboid> soundnfury: Weapon added!
<soundnfury> !wpn SnoopJeDi
* Qboid gives SnoopJeDi a prime gegenschein
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: also related to the #ro talk, there's a plush cthulhu somewhere in the office
<egg|zzz|egg> it's cute
<UmbralRaptor> \o/
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: on my floor there's also a plush of that dog from the "this is fine" meme
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: afaict the office is not on fire
<kmath> <gsuberland> @FioraAeterna propulsion engineers: "I wonder if I could make this hypergolic with something..."
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: so should I make a PHAT keyboard
<egg|zzz|egg> or do you have a better idea for a keyboard design
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: also, should I play some DF or zzz
<UmbralRaptor> 2MASS image of Maffei 2?
<UmbralRaptor> It's saturday morning in eggland, right?
<UmbralRaptor> DF
<egg|zzz|egg> it's still friday
<egg|zzz|egg> hm, maffei2 doesn't really have the right aspect ration for a keyboard? or rotating it then?
<egg|zzz|egg> does 2MASS have the requisite resolution though
<UmbralRaptor> hrm
<egg|zzz|egg> I need ~300 dpi on a keyboard
<egg|zzz|egg> or I could go with text like phl
<UmbralRaptor> So PHAT is pretty well justified?
<UmbralRaptor> o_O
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: yeah, PHAT would probably do, I'm worried that it might look a bit redundant, being my screen background already
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: why the o_O :-p
<Thomas> paint a small egg on each of your keys
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<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: he has this one at home, too http://i.imgur.com/GbI4dAb.jpg
<egg|zzz|egg> !wa 8193/(300/inch) in cm
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: convert 8193/(300/(inch)) to centimeters: 69.37 cm (centimeters)
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: I could use spitzer imagery of andromeda too
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<UmbralRaptor> o_O at a, keyboard with poetry (?)
<UmbralRaptor> !choose spitzer|galex
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Your options are: spitzer, galex. My choice: galex
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: yes, poetry
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: hmm, ultraviolet rather than infrared?
<soundnfury> !wpn -add:adj quacking
<Qboid> soundnfury: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: so, DF
<egg|zzz|egg> !wa time in ZRH
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: current time at Zürich Airport: 12:15:35 am CEST | Saturday, April 29, 2017
<UmbralRaptor> uh
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<egg|zzz|egg> oh hey a bunch of dwarves are singing and simulating instruments again
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: Nomal feels anxious after discussing bodily fluids.
<egg|zzz|egg> Within the last season, she felt anxious after discussing reproductive behaviour.
<egg|zzz|egg> She was dejected after being kept away from alcohol for too long.
<egg|zzz|egg> [Note: there's alcohol literally in the next room, it's just that she stays in the lecture hall and endlessly does research
<egg|zzz|egg> ]
<Iskierka> nomal is an ace alcoholic?
<UmbralRaptor> No idea on the first part. As for the second, maybe. Alcohol is the only thing that helps her anxiety.
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: UmbralRaptor: looking at her relationship tab, I don't see a spouse fwiw
<egg|zzz|egg> she has 1 older brother, 1 younger brother, and 5 older sisters
<egg|zzz|egg> a bunch of nieces and nephews
<egg|zzz|egg> two deities
<egg|zzz|egg> a master (scholar) who's also here at ancient bird
<egg|zzz|egg> on friendly terms with a bunch of people, and a plethora of passing acquaintances
<egg|zzz|egg> I guess I can look at dwarf therapist
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: UmbralRaptor: dwarf therapist says female - heterosexual
<egg|zzz|egg> I have an asexual dwarf (not goblin) called nomal, but she's a planter, not a scholar (she's planting mushrooms right now)
<egg|zzz|egg> Nomal the scholar is discussing the screw at the moment
<Iskierka> so just raised catholic then?
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: dunno, she has two deities
<egg|zzz|egg> also a mason has created an artifact marble statue
<Iskierka> but does get very squicky over reproduction despite being hetero
<egg|zzz|egg> "The Warm Brute", a marble statue of Erak Boltedbrook; Erak is unnaturally contorted; relates to the animation of the body of said dwarf by the human necromancer Ohe Wettin in the Steppe of Defending in the early spring of 20; encircled with bands of marble cabochons, menaces with spikes of marble, on it is an image of a papaya tree in marble.
<egg|zzz|egg> uh
<UmbralRaptor> uhm
<UmbralRaptor> … what deities does Nomal follow?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: She is a dubious worshipper of Nôdub Zalstom "The Punches of Medicine" (a deity of the Glaze of Obstacles, who often takes the form of a female dwarf and is associated with war and fortresses) and a worshipper of Nosîm (also a deity of the Glaze of Obstacles, also manifests as a female dwarf, associated with poetry, generosity, and charity).).
<egg|zzz|egg> s/..$//
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg meant to say: UmbralRaptor: She is a dubious worshipper of Nôdub Zalstom "The Punches of Medicine" (a deity of the Glaze of Obstacles, who often takes the form of a female dwarf and is associated with war and fortresses) and a worshipper of Nosîm (also a deity of the Glaze of Obstacles, also manifests as a female dwarf, associated with poetry, generosity, and charity).