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.
<soundnfury> !u ₚ
<Qboid> U+209A LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER P (ₚ)
* soundnfury wonders what determines which letters appear in that block
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<Ellied> The different methods people have come up with for taking I/V curves of electronic components are amusing. My prof is one of those lab instructors who, if you propose a method of doing something which is really inefficient and roundabout while there's a much better and easier method, will say "yeah, that sounds great! you should try it!" instead of telling you the "right" way, which I think
<Ellied> is great.
<SnoopJeDi> Experience does a great job teaching :P
<Ellied> so we have somebody programming a Pi to talk to an MCP-3008 to measure current and use PWM and an active low-pass filter to set the voltage, someone else (me) who just hooked up a function generator and an oscilloscope in X-Y mode, and also someone else who decided to just sit there and twiddle the knobs of a power supply and write down the multimeter readings on paper.
<Ellied> I've also had the same conversation with a number of people:
<Ellied> "did you do the spectrometry project yet?" "yeah, it took me a couple days to wire it up and the data collection had to run overnight for a week, but I got all the data." "what, a couple days? I just used the Ocean Optics units and was done in half an hour." "yeah, but I got the TRIAX working!!"
<SnoopJeDi> The knowledge differential adds up *fast*, but I'm sure you've already noticed
<Ellied> knowledge differential?
<SnoopJeDi> What you learned in doing it the "wrong" way vs. "I just..."
<Ellied> right, yeah. I've also been discovering firsthand just how wrong it's possible to be when you think "I already know how to do that, I don't need to bother actually doing it now"
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<kmath> <AlexSteffen> Cities mandating that stores charge shoppers 25¢ for each bag but not a penny for parking is an interesting climate action priority.
<UmbralRaptor> most grocery stores are inaccessible without a car.
<UmbralRaptor> There are additional considerations, but that's the big one.
<Ellied> maybe most of them where you live.
<Ellied> I can think of a great number of grocery/department stores in Chicago that offer free parking.
<Ellied> (despite being in easy reach of the CTA/bike lanes/etc)
<bofh> UmbralRaptor: true, a lot of this is suburb hell with city planning is ugh.
<UmbralRaptor> fair enough.
<UmbralRaptor> It's always Fun when the only cheap housing is middle distance suburbs.
<UmbralRaptor> Or 2 morning / 2 afternoon / 0 weekend bus lines
<UmbralRaptor> The last line is specifically referencing Kansas City.
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<kmath> <BBCScotlandNews> Ever been chased by an otter? Rory MacPherson, from Lockerbie had a narrow escape after this encounter! https://t.co/gdw74g8JLz
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<egg|work|egg> !wpn e_14159
* Qboid gives e_14159 a stern tofu
<Qboid> egg|work|egg: UmbralRaptor left a message for you in #kspacademia [17.05.2017 17:43:21]: "Remember to file a ticket to get your machine renamed to andromeda or somesuch"
<egg|work|egg> !wpn Iskierka
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<egg|work|egg> ach ja
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<egg|work|egg> !wpn Thomas
* Qboid gives Thomas an irregular xenon atom
<egg|work|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an isentropic rectifier
<egg|work|egg> !wpn Ellied
* Qboid gives Ellied an expressed defective delta function
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<Ellied> this delta function is defective, it's width is greater than 0 and its height less than ∞
<egg|cell|egg> Yay my computer is now called Andromeda
<e_14159> egg|cell|egg: Yay for andromeda.
<e_14159> Btw, Byron got a new battery
* UmbralRaptor integrates the delta function and gets 0.8660859954...
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* e_14159 hands UmbralRaptor another numerical error
* UmbralRaptor weights down the floating points with rocks.
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a phi discrete helicoid
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a nilpotent irrotational panzer
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a pyrolytic domain
<egg|zzz|egg> I registered for the workshop & laser training too, that sounds fun
<UmbralRaptor> ...lasers?
<egg|zzz|egg> laser \o/
<whitequark> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a gamma decorator
* egg|zzz|egg decorates the Γ function
<kmath> <johnregehr> I like to think my short, fat calico cat was reincarnated as one of these https://t.co/sqaXPn43w5
<kmath> <FakeUnicode> @0x5742 * Extended Grapheme Cluster alignment chart
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn ferram4
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a tau sequence/number hybrid
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: any news from the cat?
<UmbralRaptor> !8ball Is this application doomed?
<UmbralRaptor> ;8ball Is this application doomed?
<kmath> UmbralRaptor: Yes definitely
<egg|zzz|egg> s/from/of
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg meant to say: whitequark: any news of the cat?
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a harmful dragon
* UmbralRaptor is set on fire by the dragon.
* UmbralRaptor blames egg|zzz|egg
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<soundnfury> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
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<kmath> YouTube - Eye tracker EyeChip meets my USB packet analyzer at last @scanlime-in-progress
* UmbralRaptor wonders if Ellied would get the most out of the electrical engineering bits.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: but cat
<UmbralRaptor> sleepy cat
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<egg|zzz|egg> !choose zzz|nomal
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Your options are: zzz, nomal. My choice: zzz
<egg|zzz|egg> ;choose zzz|nomal
<kmath> egg|zzz|egg: zzz
* egg|zzz|egg zzz
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