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.
<egg>
Iskierka: the foot wounds seem to have been adequately handled, they're conscious and can stand now
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UmbralRaptor: and now the wounded speardwarf is back to strolling the halls while reading about the relation between the solar and lunar year
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gives egg an easter
<soundnfury>
it's made of chocolate, but it's hollow.
* UmbralRaptor
gives soundnfury a blood moon.
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<UmbralRaptor>
Oh, hey. I seem to have been twitter-followed by a crank.
<Ellied>
a crank?
<UmbralRaptor>
Not a conspiratorial one. Just a bit spammy and trying to sell their book on a theory of everything.
<UmbralRaptor>
I try to block the most obvious spammy brands and bots.
<SnoopJeDi>
I liked a few powerlifting things on instagram and *jeez* the fitness accounts
<UmbralRaptor>
Well, usually. The Carl Sagan quoting bot can live.
<SnoopJeDi>
I think the "follow-back" pattern is just so assumed on their part
<UmbralRaptor>
Also, it's weird when I dunk on $thing, and promptly get a like or follow from some account associated with $thing
<Ellied>
yeaaah
<SnoopJeDi>
oh man and the data science ones ugh
<UmbralRaptor>
Okay, your search bot needs to be a bit smarter.
<SnoopJeDi>
Just...egh. Please with the young entrepreneur crap already
<Ellied>
yeah I've seen a good few of those
<SnoopJeDi>
#bigdata #machinelearning ffs
<UmbralRaptor>
PHAT counts as big data, right?
<SnoopJeDi>
All I did was mention @d3_js!
<Ellied>
"Do the thing with Big Data™ using our product, $RAND_DICTIONARY_WORD! It's exactly what you need for your company!"
* UmbralRaptor
can only imagine how silly talking about JS gets.
<SnoopJeDi>
Far sillier than JS itself
* SnoopJeDi
gestures to Webpack
<UmbralRaptor>
$RAND_DICTIONARY_WORD is built on the $word.js framework, making it highly performant.
<UmbralRaptor>
...wait, "performant" is more of an academia word.
* UmbralRaptor
has been using some form of adblock for, uh, 13 years I think. Maybe 14?
<Ellied>
SnoopJeDi: idk if you saw me mention it yesterday, but I've been developing a 'new' (new as in "I can't find anything by googling of someone doing this before") low-cost light detector. The results so far have been extremely promising.
<SnoopJeDi>
Ooh, I did not
<SnoopJeDi>
For what context, Ellied?
<Ellied>
spectrometry
<UmbralRaptor>
"Any physicist that would be explaining his or her new theory would have a multitude of diagrams and pages of equations explaining every step of their theory. But this complete theory is based on the newer more popular version of Occam's razor: "That the simplest possible explanation for natural phenomena is usually right." So everything that needs to be explained will be explained by the use of
<UmbralRaptor>
the simplest of explanations. This at the same time makes this theory understandable to almost everyone."
<UmbralRaptor>
High resolution spectrographs soon?
<Ellied>
Instead of just measuring the current through a photodiode directly with a classic transimpedance amplifier, my design uses the photodiode to charge a very small capacitor (actually the junction of a transistor) and then uses a JFET-input comparator to tell when it charges to a certain level and reset it (by briefly turning on the transistor) which generates a stream of pulses of frequency
<Ellied>
proportional to intensity.
<Ellied>
I've been calling it "I Can't Believe It's Not SiPM"
<Ellied>
so far I've managed to demonstrate very decent sensitivity (comparable to or better than the typical TIA arrangement) and extreme dynamic range (almost total darkness all the way up to normal room light)
<Ellied>
the circuit is way too simple for me to be the first to invent it I think, but I'm still proud of it.
<Ellied>
UmbralRaptor: high-res spectrographs are forthcoming whenever someone gets around to slapping a PMT on it and using my counter board; the instrument's maximum resolution should be substantial. One of the grad students and I tried it with a laser and very small slit spacing, and we got very close to the full 1 picometer the drive controller advertises (harmonic peaks from a He-Ne laser)
<Ellied>
we tried it with one of my older detectors though, so we needed pretty large intensity
<Ellied>
I've mostly just been using the machine as a testbed for my cheap detectors. There's not really any point in using a $5 detector on a $50k machine in the longrun anyway, hah
<UmbralRaptor>
!
<Ellied>
My personal goal is to eventually build a cheap but decent spectrometer. Current hope is to manage 1-nm resolution across the visible range for under $50 in total materials.
<Ellied>
well, $50 not counting the raspberry pi, haha
<Ellied>
My uni has a bunch of those ocean optics CCD spectrometers that connect to Logger Pro via USB and cost like at least $1k
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Ellied
* Qboid
gives Ellied a ⅝λ sonic screwdriver
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor an ill-conditioned spiral cut parabolol
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a dynamorphism
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn Ellied
* Qboid
gives Ellied a slow ſtabber
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn egg
* Qboid
gives egg a sulfur hug
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a fizzix crystal with a ☣ attachment
* UmbralRaptor
would complain about being tab-jacked, but tabbing after one letter is just asking for trouble.
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn -add:adj overclocked
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn -add:adj underclocked
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn -add:adj oscillating
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn -add:adj osculating
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptor: Adjective already added!
<egg|zzz|egg>
!seen Norgg
<Qboid>
egg|zzz|egg: I haven't seen the user Norgg yet.
<egg|zzz|egg>
!tell NathanKell http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/139335-ksp-113-rss-datetime-formatter-v10/&page=2#comment-2857395 << when using principia, the start of the game is defined as 1951-01-01T00:00:00 Terrestrial Time (TT) [1]. This is what the RSSTimeFormatter uses [2], which makes sense since it shows TT when using Principia [3]. Now if you are interested in UT1, ΔT = ~30 s in 1950 [4], so the
<Qboid>
egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<egg|zzz|egg>
game starts about 30 s before the start of 1951 UT1; However no mods display UT1, so you should probably refer to TT.
<egg|zzz|egg>
!tell NathanKell game starts about 30 s before the start of 1951 UT1; However no mods display UT1, so you should probably refer to TT.
<Qboid>
egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<kmath_>
<whitequark> @oshepherd @FioraAeterna it still conducts heat rather badly though, so plastic burns are far more benign than meta… https://t.co/sKNmR9eJz2
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* UmbralRaptor
wonders if this means that the second degree burns I've gotten from hot glue guns were more from the metal nozzle than the actual molten glue.
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: ow
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: I wonder how glue compares to sugar in terms of conductivity
<Iskierka>
"spoiler; or as they insist on calling it here, abstract"
<BPlayer>
The tripod image is new, I just used it instead of the telescope mount. It is public domain, and I figured it's much easier to cut out and looks somewhat better.
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<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: should a theropods use GEMs
<BPlayer>
Iskierka: Edit min/max bounds, save in HTML file, open in browser, push button to roll dice: Iskierka: <button onclick="var min = 1; var max = 6; var dice = this.innerHTML = Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min)) + min;">Roll Dice</button>
<BPlayer>
Woops, also ignore the second highlight. Crawled in from a testing copy/paste
<Iskierka>
I'm rolling to randomise stellaris races which has many many many different amounts of selections on conditionals for many different things
<Iskierka>
that would take considerably more time
<BPlayer>
Oh well
<Iskierka>
though just noticed races is something steam doesn't sync so there's ~4 I can pull from the laptop
* UmbralRaptor
keeps on finding it weirdly useful to have a terminal window running a Python session with all the math libraries loaded.
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: I thought we had decided on an exponential ban? though by now they might be banned for 30 years
<UmbralRaptor>
Also, yay for the sci-hub bird.
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: not entirely sure why the guardian has a link to the full text but that works too :-p
<Ellied>
egg|zzz|egg: 30 years? what was the increment before, I forget
<egg|zzz|egg>
Ellied: it might have been something silly like powers of twelve
<egg|zzz|egg>
Ellied: maybe it's just a couple of years? not sure which step we had reached
<Ellied>
maybe powers of 24? I vaguely remember a full-day ban being in there somewhere
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah probably
<egg|zzz|egg>
Ellied: yeah so we're either on the one-and-a-half year ban or the 38ish-year ban
<egg|zzz|egg>
Ellied: whitequark: UmbralRaptor: Iskierka: ferram4: any ideas for the colour of the trajectory of the target vessel (see principia#1424) ? Colours I currently use are fuchsia for the active vessel's prediction, acid green for its history, baby blue for its flight plan coasts, and orangered for its flight plan burns
<kmath>
YouTube - Cat Cam Capstan CAD and more like that @scanlime-in-progress
<SnoopJeDi>
The "executive summary" I've been writing about my work in the last couple of months has ballooned to 4 pages and I haven't even written about RF dynamics yet :|
<egg|zzz|egg>
... googgling "was washed with isopropanol" yields "A significant difference was observed among HCC values when grizzly bear hair was washed with isopropanol" as the first result
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: defining df so that df = df/dx dx holds seems like a way to confuse A/BPlayer
* UmbralRaptor
sees tofu for the math f
<egg|zzz|egg>
Ꙩ_ꙩ there's "leather armor" and "armor" as DF armor types, but you can have "armor" made out of leather, or "leather armor" (which you can explicitly say should be made out of leather)
<egg|zzz|egg>
I told my dwarves to wear leather (armor), and they wore leather tunics, I think I should tell them to wear (leather armor)
<egg|zzz|egg>
(of course those look the same in the UI)
<UmbralRaptor>
o_O
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<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: nomal is building mechanisms
<UmbralRaptor>
Traps?
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah, and levers
<egg|zzz|egg>
need to get that gate to the cavern working