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.
* UmbralRaptor
goes flying away into GTO.
<egg|df|egg>
UmbralRaptor: hp67 instructions!
<egg|df|egg>
UmbralRaptor: you should go flying in GSB that way you can RTN
<SnoopJeDi>
e_14159, despite the "I'm not super interested in neural nets" point I claimed last week, I am now considering taking a crack at using one to try and animate some of these shots of Jupiter's pole >_>
<Ellied>
the grad students have been trying to use the new calibrated power meter as a detector for the spectrometer. "we can see the light when we look in; it should be plenty, right?"
<Ellied>
turns out the amount of light the human eye can pick up is *really small*
<Ellied>
that is the minimum amount
<SnoopJeDi>
~3 photons with proper darkness
<SnoopJeDi>
which is shocking, but the wetware does an awful good job of the heuristics
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<Ellied>
yeah there's a reason the thing came with a PMT
<Ellied>
(a really shitty one with a dreadful proprietary control box, but a PMT nonetheless)
<kmath_>
Ellied: You scram your antimatter reactor. Your Kerbonauts unionize, and decide to strand you on Eve.
<Iskierka>
a case where both readings of unionize are understandable
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<SnoopJeDi>
e_14159, not sure! I did a half-hearted search and ended up on http://web.mit.edu/vondrick/tinyvideo/, which is neat but a little too general of a problem I think (although one of the authors is from my alma mater!)
<e_14159>
Market-leading dog hallucination tech, but clearly not market-leading search engine tech :-)
<UmbralRaptor>
Egg: that sounds like a way to summon Lovecraftian horrors.
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: true
<egg>
On the comments, I mentioned that one of the technologies Andreas had mentioned -- "The human Google doodle? The Hell of Eyes and Phantoms? The firework-launching self-driving car? The scientist with the head of a falcon? Our market-leading dog-hallucination technology? The same chicken sandwich, three times a week?" -- was real, and challenged the readers to guess which.
<egg>
Today, I am glad to be able to publicly discuss our market-leading dog-hallucination technology.
<egg>
e_14159: eh, as long as the dogs are properly translated I'm fine
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<egg>
!wpn regex
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<e_14159>
egg: Btw, what's your programming organization technique?
<egg>
e_14159: what do you mean?
<egg>
also do you mean principia or Google
<egg>
though tbh I guess with principia I've been following a googleish approach for a while so it's almost familiar :-p
<e_14159>
s/programming organization/software development
<Qboid>
e_14159 meant to say: egg: Btw, what's your software development technique?
<egg>
e_14159: what do you mean by technique in this context
<e_14159>
We're probably going to transition from unorganized chaos to scrum-like abominational chaos
<egg>
what's scrum
<egg>
do I want to know
<e_14159>
I don't know.
<regex>
You and your father implementing scrum for your two-person team?
<e_14159>
Apparently it's a framework to organize software development.
<egg>
regex: ?
<regex>
are you guys going to have daily stand-ups?
<egg>
regex: I'm not the one scrumming, e_14159 is apparently
<regex>
maybe some retrospective meetings?
<e_14159>
Of course, I kind of doubt it's very useful in an academic setting
<regex>
Oh, my bad.
<egg>
regex: with phl we just code review thoroughly
<e_14159>
But well, as long as we get some sort of organization
<e_14159>
I spent the last week documenting stuff and telling people to write stuff down :-/
<egg>
(sometimes the tests aren't reviewed as thoroughly because lazy, but I try to at least make sure the general design of the test is sensible)
<e_14159>
We had our code hugely distributed, i.e. most of it was on students' (sometimes personal) laptops
<egg>
[talking about principia here]
<regex>
Scrum isn't terrible
<egg>
e_14159: still not sure whether you're asking about google or principia, and what specifically you're asking though
<regex>
We use it here at work, it's pretty refreshing, actually.
<e_14159>
egg: Google or principia, and essentially how to organize the process from an idea to implemented code in a team.
<egg>
if the idea is complex, design doc (even in principia, though very informal, we sometimes end up having to do that)
<egg>
to get an outline of what APIs we need, what algorithms we need, etc.
* e_14159
nods
<egg>
(sometimes in principia that's just verbal, but the same idea: phl's downsampling work is projective plane (done), projection (done), occlusion by spheres (wip), the downsampling algorithm (paper looked at, will have to dig more))
<e_14159>
regex: Did you have anybody with scrum-experience?
<egg>
e_14159: then when it comes to code, review
<egg>
thoroughly
<egg>
nitpickily :-p
<regex>
e_14159 we had one or two, and we consulted with an outside scrum master who had implemented it successfully for a local video game company
<e_14159>
regex: My slightly more differentiated opinion is that scrum appears to be a nice and interesting way of developing software, but that I'm unsure of whether it will help us because a) increments are difficult to define for us, b) I feel like I'm the only one actually organized, and c) we don't have any experience with it.
<regex>
e_14159: yeah, you definitely need to have buy-in
<regex>
it takes a team to make something like that work, but when it does work it's a pretty good framework, keeps things moving.
<regex>
Also, on the increment thing, it's of note that the entire company here went to Scrum, marketing and all, but that IT (where I am now) doesn't use it because support simply cannot be incremented.
<regex>
but when I was developing, it was pretty cool.
<e_14159>
Honestly, I doubt we'll ever have a buy-in. Which means that I'll probably have to somehow try and organize stuff :-/
<regex>
:(
<e_14159>
But no use moping :-)
<e_14159>
It's good to hear that you had good experiences with it; makes me a bit more hopeful.
<regex>
Sure
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<egg>
!wpn e_14159
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<soundnfury>
!wpn egg
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<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn
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* UmbralRaptor
hugs the zone.
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<egg>
e_14159: also, I keep writing TODO(egg) instead of TODO(eggrobin) at work
<egg>
(I'm eggrobin@)
<egg>
the thing is the lint check that checks that you TODO someone that eggsists fails to fail, because someone has egg as an email alias
<egg>
so I'm assigning TODOs to some random person :-p
<egg>
I need to write an egglinter
<egg>
(I write linters anyway, so why not)
<egg>
bofh: you should nickserv
<bofh>
oh not again
<bofh>
done
* egg
pictures bofh as a bowl of petunias
<bofh>
LOL
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* UmbralRaptor
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<UmbralRaptor>
(rayleigh scattering cross sections of N2 and O2)
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<egg|df|egg>
UmbralRaptor: no trolls or beak dogs this time, just a sizeable contingent of goblins
<egg|df|egg>
goblinite for the goblinite god!
<UmbralRaptor>
Yay
<egg|df|egg>
UmbralRaptor: a visiting hammerdwarf happened to come from the same direction as them, it didn't end well for the hammerdwarf
<UmbralRaptor>
=\
<egg|df|egg>
UmbralRaptor: more corpses to scare the invaders away though
<egg|df|egg>
most of the time they leave the visiting scholars alone, so that's nice
<egg|df|egg>
welp a goblin hammerman has decided to leave
<egg|df|egg>
that's maybe not a great idea
<egg|df|egg>
also the combat logs between goblin hammermen is confusing
<egg|df|egg>
welp two more visitors decided to get out, but at least they are meeting the invaders within range of the archery tower
<egg|df|egg>
still ill-advised.
<egg|df|egg>
UmbralRaptor: beak dog bone bolts are stabbing though
<UmbralRaptor>
Yay, stab.
<egg|df|egg>
now the traps are stabbing
<egg|df|egg>
uh so goblin blood they haven't reached the entrance bridge hall yet, and goblin is flowing down the stairs to the hall from all the stabbing by bolts outside
<egg|df|egg>
(because of course flow mechanics apply to blood)