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>
Nah, TSV is easy to deal with.
<Ellied>
Today on "American Public Transit is a Joke": Bus I was going to take home just sort of forgot to show up. Waited 17 extra minutes, checked their website for delays (none posted), and then gave up and took the train. Hopefully this won't be like my last train trip, where it blew an airbag about 15 minutes out, spent the next hour with a top speed of about 10 m/s, and finally just ground to a stop
<Ellied>
partway into the station before mine.
<Ellied>
The poor engineer had to sit there and explain to a line of angry drivers and cops that no, it's not possible for the train engineer to just turn off the train's axels and make the crossing gates go up.
<kmath>
<spacermase> #HabWorlds2017 I feel like Maggie Turnbull's concerns about the political and economic challenges are yet another j… https://t.co/9oeTW5DY0E
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|phone|egg: to be fair, a burrito's mean lifetime is comparable to a neutron's.
<Ellied>
wait, that's not even normal character-nonsupport. I could still copypaste it and have it recognized, as opposed to just getting REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
<kmath>
<whitequark> @softfennec You can't make a sandwich. Therefore, if you make a sandwich, anything is possible because your axiomatics is inconsistent
<egg|phone|egg>
I am not an egg and this sentence is false
<soundnfury>
whitequark: what if I sudo make a sandwich?
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<Ellied>
presumably in much the same way that using sudo to kill a process in iowait won't work, nor will using it to make a sandwich if sandwich is not a supported concept
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<UmbralRaptor>
soundnfury: make crashes so badly it takes down your OS with it.
<Ellied>
~% make war
<Ellied>
uhhhhh I just saw a really weird train car on the Metra that just went by
<Ellied>
it was really square, shiny plate steel exterior, and it had a great big four-part window (like a square with an X removed) on the side, slightly toward the front
<Ellied>
the interior behind the window was brightly lit, but I couldn't tell what was inside. Nondescript metal surfaces.
<Ellied>
it may have been the engine? I couldn't see it for long enough to tell if it was in front.
<soundnfury>
UmbralRaptor: great, have fun debugging the oops message. No, I didn't have debug symbols installed, you'll need to decompile the Code: line.
<Iskierka>
locomotives are usually recognisable as such?
<Iskierka>
tangent: I find it verry silly that full-size and weight locomotives run at street level?
<UmbralRaptor>
"Have you ever had issues figuring out whether 100000000 is a hundred million or a billion? In Python 3.6, you can now add underscores anywhere in an integer"
<UmbralRaptor>
1_000_000 etc
<SnoopJeDi>
I hated that feature at first but on review I kinda like it. Although I'd still write the literal for 1 million as 1e6
<SnoopJeDi>
__mul__ is nice just to have another operator to work with though, heh
<SnoopJeDi>
err, __matmul__?
<UmbralRaptor>
__mul_apin__
* UmbralRaptor
blames egg|anbo|egg
<egg|phone|egg>
Meow
<UmbralRaptor>
Kitty!
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<kmath>
<juliagalef> Asking mathematicians for concrete examples has proven to be a reliable source of hilarity. From… https://t.co/r5ygqpLwPu
<egg|anbo|egg>
so a polynomial would always look like x^17 - 3x^2 + 2 or whatever
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<UmbralRaptor>
aaaaaaa
<bofh>
egg|anbo|egg: seems reasonable tbh
<bofh>
SnoopJeDi: same for just using 1e6 there
<egg|anbo|egg>
ANBOcat just walked on my laptop
<egg|anbo|egg>
"S_?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/////// zvzsv nr s" quoth the cat
<kmath>
<whitequark> a cat walking on my keyboard toggled something in sublime text i don't know how to turn off & that's how i realized it is literally a fuzzer
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<awang>
So sort of related to the Pony 0/0 = 0 thing
<awang>
Rust apparently decided to specify float -> int casts so they no longer result in undefined behavior
<UmbralRaptor>
"This position requires a PhD in Astronomy, Physics, or a related field. Candidates should have 5 or more years of experience working with astronomical data (images or spectra), catalogs, space-based observing, and/or astronomical data analysis."
<kmath>
<hashtagoras> Did You Know? The “academic job market” was named for the biblical Job, who endured not only endless unjust torment… https://t.co/4vHm534wtk
<SnoopJeDi>
LOL
<SnoopJeDi>
e_14159, the speaker who ran the little ML seminar for us presented her work on this, it's darned cool: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02355
<SnoopJeDi>
tl;dr built a 3-layer calorimeter model in GEANT and simulated "real" shower events with cross-sections at each layer. Trained 3 separate GANs on the images and were able to generate self-consistent triplets corresponding to events (i.e. the GANs learned the physics rules connecting layers)
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<egg|phone|egg>
!Wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a technetium perturbation
<SnoopJeDi>
colleague on Slack: "oh neat I had forgotten that Strominger is giving a [distinguished] lecture in two weeks. always nice to have a fantasy author give colloquium"
<SnoopJeDi>
colleague in phenomenology of a stringy pedigree, I should further specify
<UmbralRaptor>
Uhm
<SnoopJeDi>
a cheap dig on string theory that made me cackle a little bit
<kmath>
<vogon> reminder: if you're a bird and you're freezing to death because crude oil ruined the insulating properties of your… https://t.co/HrBeElvS1N
<kmath>
<mhoye> Some internal comedy: A moment of panic as a user retention graph shows Firefox Quantum spiking abruptly to zero af… https://t.co/Xa8w1iSIVg
<Ellied>
heh
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<e_14159>
"Stop at release date" sounds like a necessary feature for such a graph.
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<e_14159>
By the way, I've finally finished preparation for my paper. And by preparation I mean "spent the last two weeks making everything reproducible, self-logging and clean code, which means I can now implement my actual experiments"
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<Ellied>
ASSIGNMENT: write a reflective essay. ME: uh, okay [loads metallic embossing ribbon into my typewriter]
<e_14159>
Ellied: No metal-3d printer?
<Ellied>
No, but we do have a spool of metallic PLA in one of the printers in the library. its prints look gaudy as fuck
<e_14159>
"gaudy as fuck" :D
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<UmbralRaptor>
Ellied: talk to the solid state physics people, and borrow a PLD to coat your paper I'm aluminum?
<UmbralRaptor>
e_14159: Yay!
<e_14159>
UmbralRaptor: How does it feel to be aluminium? :D
<e_14159>
s/iniu/inu
<UmbralRaptor>
e_14159: like my phone hates me, mainly.
<Qboid>
e_14159 meant to say: UmbralRaptor: How does it feel to be aluminum? :D
<e_14159>
Thought so.
UmbralRaptor is now known as AluminumRaptor
<Ellied>
PLD?
<Ellied>
(assuming not Programmable Logic Device)
<SnoopJeDi>
something something deposition?
<Ellied>
Annoying-Ass Résumé Format #2591025: Etched into a 3mm silicon die using 25nm lithography; text is only discoverable using high-coherence X-ray diffraction
<Ellied>
er, wait, can TEM resolve features at that scale?
<kmath>
<Newpa_Hasai> LRT: It feels sort of silly advertising Principia when it's impractical for me to actually play or do dev work on it, but still...
<egg|anbo|egg>
AluminumRaptor: kozai!
<egg|phone|egg>
古在！
<egg|phone|egg>
貓
<egg|phone|egg>
!wpn котя
* Qboid
gives котя a transfinite compactification/rock hybrid
<egg|phone|egg>
!Wpn порошок
* Qboid
gives порошок an up Agile capybara
<egg|anbo|egg>
!acr -add:CIPEM Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes
<Qboid>
egg|anbo|egg: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<rqou>
egg|anbo|egg: how do i add an acronym to qboid?
<rqou>
!help
<Qboid>
rqou: I sent you a private message with information about all my commands!
<rqou>
!help acronym
<Qboid>
acronym: Expands an acronym to a text that is easily understandable.
<Qboid>
parameters: -add (Adds an explanation), -remove (Removes an explanation), -update (Updates an explanation), -list (Returns a list with all stored acronyms)
<Qboid>
example: !acr IRC
<rqou>
IRC?
<rqou>
!acr IRC
<Qboid>
rqou: This key is not registered!
<rqou>
!acr -list
<Qboid>
rqou: I will send you a list of my acronyms!
<rqou>
!acr -add TLA A recursive Three-Letter Acronym
<Qboid>
rqou: Invalid key!
<rqou>
!acr TLA -add A recursive Three-Letter Acronym
<Qboid>
rqou: Invalid key!
<rqou>
!help acr
<Qboid>
acr: Expands an acronym to a text that is easily understandable.
<Qboid>
parameters: -add (Adds an explanation), -remove (Removes an explanation), -update (Updates an explanation), -list (Returns a list with all stored acronyms)
<Qboid>
soundnfury: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<soundnfury>
(and it's not recursive, just autonymous)
<rqou>
ah there we go
<rqou>
fine
<egg|anbo|egg>
rqou: the syntax is !acr -add:MOO Massive Overdense Object
<soundnfury>
(is heteronym a heteronym?)
<rqou>
MOO?
<Qboid>
rqou: [MOO] => Massive Overdense Object
<rqou>
wtf egg|anbo|egg
<egg|anbo|egg>
blame AluminumRaptor
* soundnfury
rustles some catalogues
<egg|anbo|egg>
(well blame astronomers)
<soundnfury>
egg: whence the A in ANBO?
<egg|anbo|egg>
Iskierka:
<egg|anbo|egg>
s/://
<Qboid>
egg|anbo|egg meant to say: Iskierka
<Iskierka>
egg:
<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a palladium operator
<soundnfury>
!wpn rqou
* Qboid
gives rqou a spicy 50Ω ram
<AluminumRaptor>
MaDCoWS?
<Qboid>
AluminumRaptor: [MaDCoWS] => Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey
<AluminumRaptor>
rqou: object in that survey
<rqou>
oh wtf my network connection ate some of my attempts to abuse qboid
<rqou>
testaabbtest
<rqou>
s/(.)\1/xxx/
<Qboid>
rqou meant to say: testxxxbbtest
<rqou>
uh
<rqou>
backreferences are allowed
<rqou>
that could be fun
<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn
* Qboid
gives egg|anbo|egg a Лифшиц LART
<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn rqou
* Qboid
gives rqou an expanding NaN
<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn AluminumRaptor
* Qboid
gives AluminumRaptor a valid asura which vaguely resembles a demisemiculverin
<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a central cerium engineer
<rqou>
egg|anbo|egg: a sNaN or a qNaN? :P
<rqou>
!wpn -list
* Qboid
gives -list a const sequence point which strongly resembles an orb
<rqou>
no, that's not what i wanted
<rqou>
!help wpn
<Qboid>
wpn: Creates weapons from a list of objects and adjectives
<Qboid>
parameters: -add (Adds objects or adjectives), -remove (Removes objects or adjectives), -stats (Shows data about the weapons)
<Qboid>
example: !weapon
<egg|anbo|egg>
rqou: std::nan("sandwich")
<rqou>
!wpn -add:sNaN
<Qboid>
rqou: Invalid type
<rqou>
!wpn -add:noun:sNaN
<Qboid>
rqou: Invalid type
<rqou>
!wpn -add:obj:sNaN
<Qboid>
rqou: Invalid type
<rqou>
!wpn -add:object:sNaN
<Qboid>
rqou: Invalid type
<rqou>
wtf
<egg|anbo|egg>
it's !wpn -add:wpn noun, or !wpn -add:adj adjectival
<rqou>
!wpn -add:wpn sNaN
<Qboid>
rqou: Weapon added!
<Iskierka>
thought: if removing the headphone jack was seriously about thickness only, they could trivially add another (or two!) more USB ports to attach audio adapters to while charging
<egg|anbo|egg>
!acr -add:adj ppc_f128
<Qboid>
egg|anbo|egg: I added the explanation for this acronym.
* egg|anbo|egg
zzz
<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a ligand-gated cathedral metal