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.
<Iskierka> bofh: Loki made a bet with a giant that he couldn't build a wall around a realm in a year, transformed into a mare to lead the giant's horse off for the year, gave birth to sleipnir, and won the bet
<egg|zzz|egg> okay I need to set up my filters better, this imgur link pinged me
<egg|zzz|egg> because RK >_>
* egg|zzz|egg integrates the shiny bird with a Runge-Kutta method
<bofh> wait,you have an alert setup on 'RK'?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: :-p
<bofh> like I imagine that to be a reasonably common substring tbh :P
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: it pings me only if it's initial
<UmbralRaptor> This seems relevant to Pinkbeast.
* UmbralRaptor stares at radial velocities.
<UmbralRaptor> Exposure time calculator says to stare at αCen B for 10.7 s to get 5 cm/s precision w/ HARPS. But sim code also gets about that for a 76 s exposure.
<UmbralRaptor> At least the error is less than 1 order of magnitude now.
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<UmbralRaptor> https://youtu.be/pdDuHxwD5R4 ← That's the first time I've seen the CSB complain about OSHA or the EPA.
<kmath> YouTube - Dangerously Close: Explosion in West, Texas
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<Fiora> there's actually quite a few where they bitch about osha iirc
<kmath> <whitequark> #catcognition our cat caught and ate a moth, so i also caught a moth. because i'm an advanced being, i fried the moth before eating it.
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Fiora
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<egg|zzz|egg> uh <whitequark> the cat though, the cat could be ground support for a guided missile <whitequark> which, incidentally, gives me an idea
* egg|zzz|egg wonders whether the cat is going to learn PEG
<UmbralRaptor> Feline Forward Observer
<egg|zzz|egg> btw Fiora, have you seen whitequark's pics of котя and эта хуйня https://imgur.com/a/MzcXi
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<Iskierka> why do you have so many logins
<egg|work|egg> Iskierka: well there are just two of me right now
<egg|work|egg> one is my desktop at home, and this is my desktop at work
<egg|work|egg> sometimes I have my phone too, it tends to joinspam though
<egg|work|egg> !wpn Iskierka
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<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg
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<egg> !wpn regex
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<egg> !wpn -add:wpn moth
<Qboid> egg: Weapon added!
<egg> UmbralRaptor: phl gave me four pages of calculations for the segment hiding code to TeX for the documentation (with figures :-p)
<UmbralRaptor> segment hiding?
<egg> to hide segments behind spheres
<egg> UmbralRaptor: the figures resemble your egglipse stuff actually
<UmbralRaptor> Triangles?
<egg> the /topic no longer quotes it, but yes, <egg> the only thing there is to life is triangles
<egg> UmbralRaptor: speaking of which, solar egglipses!
<egg> UmbralRaptor: also kozai
<UmbralRaptor> hrm
<egg> UmbralRaptor: you should try to add a solar egglipse test for the Чебышёв release :D
<egg> (it's the one on the new moon of lunation 218, the total egglipse)
<regex> osculating NaN? does it become a number at any point?
<egg> regex: ... you somehow nerd sniped me into looking at Laurent series around essential singularities by bringing the output of a bot to my attention
<regex> well, at least I'm good for something around here, lol
<UmbralRaptor> hrm
<UmbralRaptor> Maybe if this moving nightmare can come to an end?
* egg first parsed that as a nightmare that moves
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<egg> !u �
<Qboid> U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (�)
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<UmbralRaptor> The nightmare is coming for you at 0.945 c, with an estimated yield of 43 giga-ricks
<UmbralRaptor> Unrelated: Student evals are back. No 5s anywhere, and not many 4s.
<egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a Белинский p-value
<egg> UmbralRaptor: what's a student eval
<egg> also what is the scale
<UmbralRaptor> 1 to 5
<UmbralRaptor> Students fill out a standardized form on teacher abilities and add comments as desired.
<UmbralRaptor> It's an end of semester thing.
<Iskierka> is 1 or 5 good?
* Iskierka pokes arbitrary numbers in the ordering
<whitequark> !wpn egg
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<egg> UmbralRaptor: ah, students rating you?
<UmbralRaptor> egg: yep
<egg> UmbralRaptor: yeah there was that when I was a TA at ETHZ (I did eggstremely poorly, what with first attempting to do the thing in bad german, thereby reducing attendance to 3-5; I had then switched to english)
<UmbralRaptor> Iskierka: 5 is good
<egg> it turns out that if you confuse the words for stack and loop, your eggsplanations of elementary algorithms make less sense
<UmbralRaptor> Loop overflow!
<UmbralRaptor> Infinite stacks!
<egg> :-p
<egg> wait no it was the words for queue and loop
<egg> (Schlange and Schleife)
<UmbralRaptor> O_o
<egg> UmbralRaptor: Schlange also means snek
<egg> first-in-first-out snake
<UmbralRaptor> So my simulation code is in the stack language?
<egg> queue
<e_14159> Wait, who actually calls them Schlange?
<e_14159> I've never actually called it anything but queueueue. Although I had a professor calling the Stack Stapel...
<egg> e_14159: Steger's Algorthmen and Komplexitaet course at ETHZ apparently :-p
<e_14159> Although I had an evaluation of my tutorial a few years back; apparently I did not manage to return the assignments fast enough.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: whereas in french the word for queue (which is queue, pronounced [kø]) means tail
<e_14159> Students handed those in in the morning, we got them at 12:30, my tutorial was at 14:00; I always gave them back in that. Clearly, could've been faster.
<egg> >_>
<e_14159> (To be fair, only one or two students bothered handing the stuff in)
<egg> yeah mostly same here
<egg> (formerly it was a requirement to take the exam, the Testatbedingung, but that was removed when I was 2-3 years in I think)
<e_14159> Same there. And since there was no improvement in grade for doing those, nobody bothered.
<egg> e_14159: did it also have the name Testatbedingung? I can find only references to ethz when looking that up
<egg> ok no uzh too
<e_14159> Nope. I don't think it had a special name.
<egg> not even sure what Testatbedingung is supposed to mean---the Testat part that is
<e_14159> Testat is another word for exam.
<egg> aaaah
<e_14159> Which usually isn't used.
<egg> e_14159: which is funny because people abbreviated Testatbedingung to Testat
<e_14159> o_O
<egg> so they were saying that not meaning the exam but the condition for taking it :D
<egg> Iskierka: why
<UmbralRaptor> o_O
<Iskierka> I'm going to assume murica
<UmbralRaptor> >_>
<egg> Iskierka: UmbralRaptor: hm, cursory googling suggests it's a prank
<UmbralRaptor> Given Juicero, it's hard to tell.
<egg> true
* UmbralRaptor ? OSX. Just let me use LibreOffice to open DOCX files.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: btw saw some fancy birds flying this morning, probably Milvus milvus
* UmbralRaptor ? macbooks in the lack of an insert key
<UmbralRaptor> egg: yay
<e_14159> Iskierka: Well, it is certainly "unique".
* UmbralRaptor ? rent costs
<Sarbian> egg: I am considering moving most of MJ logic iat WaitForFixedUpdate level.
<egg> Sarbian: you can do that, but the thing is Principia is going to nudge everything in WaitForFixedUpdate
<egg> Sarbian: so maybe ObscenelyEarly would be better?
<Sarbian> ooh yeah...
<egg> Sarbian: also the name is funnier
<Sarbian> I need to think about it more.
<egg> Sarbian: also Kerbals who have just gone on EVA are nudged on WaitForFixedUpdate too
<Sarbian> Early means that other mods could move stuff.
<egg> ObscenelyEarly means you run before *everything*
<egg> you still have the *previous* planetarium time
<egg> but that is good actually
<egg> because it means everything you see is at the same time *and* at a time consistent with the planetarium time
<egg> Sarbian: I like how we went from an annoying off-by-one (orbits one step in the future) to a maddening desynch throughout the physics step
<egg> well, "like"
<egg> in the sense that I have embraced the chaos of KSP modding I guess
<Sarbian> yes, but every other var updated in Pre is not up to date
<egg> Sarbian: it is up to date, for the previous frame
<Sarbian> I ll test and see how it goes...
<egg> Sarbian: if you run ObscenelyEarly it is as if you ran at the end of the previous frame for all intents and purposes, unless you move things (because then they won't be rendered as such)
<Sarbian> I have an other bug to fix first
<egg> and you don't move things, you send control input
<Sarbian> I hate mods that move things when they should not.
<egg> basically I'm the only one actually *moving things* (even ferram just applies forces that I yoink)
<egg> well I don't yoink ferram4's forces yet, but I will once we reunify the ferram4 and egg sectors
<egg> Iskierka: macropod \o/
<egg> <Sarbian> I hate mods that move things when they should not. <<< I hope I don't fall in that category :-p
<Sarbian> You know you don't
<egg> :-)
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<Sarbian> Well, first I ll finish fixing this thread race ...
* egg summons tsan
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<Iskierka> okay, there's german speakers in here, what would "eichen" in the context of "eichenwalde" mean? google translate suggests calibrate, which sounds strange
<e_14159> It's the tree.
<e_14159> Eiche, meaning Oak singular; add the n because actually no clue why.
<Iskierka> that would've been useful for google to possibly suggest
<e_14159> Well, it does suggest oak forest for eichenwalde :-)
<UmbralRaptor> I'm unfamiliar with bus service, is $2/ride cheaper or more expensive than normal?
<egg> doesn't sound completely mad, but are there no bus subscriptions of sorts?
<egg> UmbralRaptor: e.g. a whole-day ticket on the very local network is 5.40 CHF here
<UmbralRaptor> If so, it's well hidden.
<UmbralRaptor> Apparently I can buy a special card to get free bus-bus xfers in a 2 hour window, and $0.50 off bus to rail.
<UmbralRaptor> Maybe at wmata.com
<UmbralRaptor> Yeah, day pass: $14.75
<Iskierka> that's crazy
<UmbralRaptor> And this is the DC metro.
<UmbralRaptor> It's supposed to have good transit.
<UmbralRaptor> Why is taking the bus so consistently more expensive than driving?
<egg> UmbralRaptor: even in ZH day passes are expensive, you need something like a monthly or yearly pass
<egg> I mean a day pass for ZH is 8.80 CHF (1 CHF = 1 USD for all practical porpoises)
<UmbralRaptor> Apparently DC porpoises are twice as expensive as ZH ones.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: 7-Day Regional Bus Pass $17.50
<egg> on that wmata site you linked?
<egg> UmbralRaptor: this seems more reasonable?
<egg> they apparently don't have monthly or longer though
<UmbralRaptor> maybe. Looks like the breakeven is 4.5 round trips.
<egg> ;rpn 4 4.5 *
<kmath> egg: 18.0
<egg> (yes I am a mathematician >_>)
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<UmbralRaptor> For my porpoises, $16.01 and $19.99 are the same <_<
* UmbralRaptor wonders if a bike would pay for itself.
<UmbralRaptor> Over the PhD, probably, but they typically run a few k, right?
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<Iskierka> mine was £300
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<bofh> egg: I'd be more surprised if you did that & were not a mathematician.
<egg> hah
<kmath> <journalgen> Advances in Feline Neuroromance
<egg> !wpn NomalRaptor
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<NomalRaptor> Advanced electronic paragraph formatting
<egg> !wpn bofh
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<egg> !choose more principia manual testing|sleep
<Qboid> egg: Your options are: more principia manual testing, sleep. My choice: sleep
<egg> ;choose more principia manual testing|sleep
<kmath> egg: more principia manual testing
<egg> botsplit
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<NomalRaptor> nomalchoose: AAAAAΑΑA!
<Ellied> I don't even
<egg> Ellied: "linearity"
<Ellied> this is the "linearity" (read: "non-") of a light to frequency converter I built. Everything is mostly well-behaved until like 550 kHz, at which point...
<Ellied> wat
<Ellied> wait, I'm reading my own graph wrong. Vertical is frequency, as it should be. ~400 kHz is the borkpoint.
<egg> "borkpoint" :D
<Ellied> 550 µW
<Ellied> should probably have labeled axes before I went posting it on IRC
<egg> Ellied: how repeatable is the borky section
<Ellied> egg: very. We went back over it several times when we discovered it, and each additional datapoint we collected followed the curve, weirdness and all.
<egg> fun
<Ellied> I have two things I need to try: one, set up an automated collection rig so we can do a better measurement, and two, build a device that doesn't use the photodiode in forward bias for anything. >_>
<Ellied> (also if you refresh it, I updated it with a title and axis labels.)
<Ellied> ...wrong labels. fuck
<egg> it's nW isn't it?
<Ellied> yes.
<Ellied> refresh it again.
<egg> "~400 kHz is the borkpoint." << you meant 4000? or is it actually labeled in hHz of all things?
<NomalRaptor> cat (lower right) https://photos.app.goo.gl/OlxLRiZwCNhyUoDJ3
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<egg> UmbralRaptor: \o/
<egg> there's a cat on a blackboard near the coffee machine at work
<egg> nay, several cats
<Ellied> uhhh, somehow it is in hHz. I don't get it, I divided by 1000. Φ.φ
<Ellied> no wait, no, it's right. it's 4 MHz where it borks.
<Ellied> okay, I uh, feel slightly better about it now. that's a decent frequency.
* Ellied should have eaten sooner.
<egg> !wpn Ellied
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<Ellied> yum
<egg> is that a bolt in the dwarf fortress sense or in the Tuco sense
<Ellied> it's a threaded crossbow bolt.
<UmbralRaptor> Speaking of eating, I should do that today. Also grocery shopping.
<Ellied> http://ellied.net:8080/weirdlinearity-log.svg on a log scale it's not as scary, at least
<Ellied> I still get about five orders of magnitude of reasonable stability before it gets eaten by a cosmic toad
<Ellied> well, four. It's looking pretty shaky by 5.
<Ellied> 10¹,10²,10³,10⁴: cool, cool, keep going. 10⁵: uhh, 10⁶: aaaaaaaaaaa
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