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.
<AluminumRaptor>
adj?
<Qboid>
AluminumRaptor: [adj] => ppc_f128
AluminumRaptor is now known as UmbralRaptor
<bofh>
lol oops
<bofh>
egg|anbo|egg: std::nan("burrito")
* UmbralRaptor
x_x
<UmbralRaptor>
Oh, right. I haven't eaten today.
<UmbralRaptor>
;choose eat|study
<kmath>
UmbralRaptor: eat
<UmbralRaptor>
!choose eat|study
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptor: Your options are: eat, study. My choice: eat
<UmbralRaptor>
Well, if the stochastic electors insist…
<bofh>
I agree with both, you should eat.
<UmbralRaptor>
But what should I eat?
<soundnfury>
FOOF, apparently.
* UmbralRaptor
grabs the fluorine tanks, oxygen tanks, Bunsen burners, and nickel catalyst.
<kmath>
<NotBrunoAgain> the only three video game genres: Something Terrible Happened To This Sad Child Something Is Horribly Wrong In Th… https://t.co/sI2FCWwMen
<UmbralRaptor>
eg: Sim $foo, and Zachtronics games.
<UmbralRaptor>
So, it's 277 K out. There's someone here in a spaghetti top. Are they a robot?
<soundnfury>
hmm, I don't think harris falls into any of those categories, not even yours
<UmbralRaptor>
Harris?
<soundnfury>
I _must_ have mentioned it before... hang on
<kmath>
<ztfsurvey> The ZTF survey had its first light! (see Orion in our first image!) Get ready to unveil the transient sky mysteries… https://t.co/ea5SywAam6
<kmath>
<EricHolthaus> 2017 wouldn't be complete without a full-fledged tropical storm in Europe—in November. Latest details on the medic… https://t.co/PcABs68HkY
<rqou>
egg|anbo|egg: btw, i got my grade back for my robotics course midterm. it was pretty crap, but so was the class average, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
<kmath>
<bofh453> What the actual hell, *nonexistent academic paper* gets cited FOUR HUNDRED TIMES before someone notices it, erm, do… https://t.co/vmp7Z4vAMX
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<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: the fact that it's recent is weirder, but that could trivially happen for a 60s reference (uncheckable)
<egg|anbo|egg>
(and who is going to bother checking 19th century references or earlier, even though they're checkable)
<bofh>
egg|anbo|egg: I'm honestly more disappointed than anything else.
<kmath>
<miishke> @bofh453 I have not met an author, myself included, who has read all references in a published paper. This story re… https://t.co/YtslTGl8Rh
<bofh>
Okay, same, but IMHO this is a *problem*.
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: like I read all references I referenced in my MSc thesis, but I was quite aware that this was unusual (and amused my advisor, because I'd actually print out the letters from Euler to Goldbach or the proceedings of the academy of sciences of st petersburg or whatnot)
<e_14159>
egg|anbo|egg: Does Abstract/Conclusion reading count as reading?
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: it is, but I'd rather people carry over the reference without reading it than do a shallow reference
<egg|anbo|egg>
e_14159: yeah
<bofh>
Also if you're citing references I do think it's worth at least *trying* to check every reference you cite, since otherwise... how does one tell if the reference is useful or relevant?
<bofh>
e_14159: tbh, yes.
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<e_14159>
In that case, I haven't read everything we cited. But everything we cited, at least one of the authors did read.
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: e.g. if I read in a paper "Xyz proved the upper bound of e^(n!) [1] which was improved to log log n by Tuvw [2]", I might not read [1], but if for some reason I mention that bound for a historical perspective I'd cite it, rather than just the paper that cites [1] and [2]
<bofh>
first off, I have to giggle at that bound improvement
<egg|anbo|egg>
:D
<bofh>
Secondly, ehh. I can sort of understand that, but I'd try to at least find and skim the abstract of [1] before citing it, even if it's just for a historical perspective.
<e_14159>
"We turned out to accidentally have left several nested for-loops in our code. Removing these improved the performance significantly"
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: yeah, but that can be hard (because [1] is irrelevant really), e.g. there's actually a paper in my msc thesis refs that I have never found, only a Zbl (and I spent ages looking for the Zbl)
* egg|anbo|egg
pokes Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde with a stick
<bofh>
Never been digitized?
<bofh>
I've run into that issue a few times, sadly.
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<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: yeah
<egg|anbo|egg>
the Zbls were digitized, and that did summarize the proof
<egg|anbo|egg>
Zbler?
<egg|anbo|egg>
e_14159: how do you abbreviate the plural of Zentralblatt
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* UmbralRaptor
wonders how many extragalctic astronomers have actually read Sérsic 1963 (different problem -- how's your Spanish?)
<kmath>
<diodelass> Command binaries are kept in /bin, /sbin, /system/bin, /system/sbin, /system/xbin, /vendor/bin, and /system/hell/ja… https://t.co/72Q0zxef2h
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: re. the ea-nasir complaint afaict there's just the one tablet about the wrong grade of copper, the others are the weird fanfic thing?
<bofh>
egg|anbo|egg: no, there's several originals
<Chessy_>
Ellied: Anyway, summary of the day: resistance between pins 2 and 3 is about 16 MOhm without further action. Attaching a negative supply clip to pin 1 makes the resistance gradually, over the course of perhaps 30 or 60 seconds, drop to < 10 Ohm. Resistance between pins 3 and 2 (reversed) seems to be infinity no matter what happens. Behaviour when attaching a positive supply to pin 1 (presumably gate) seems inconsistent and ranges betwee
<Chessy_>
Also, I am APlayer, my client is doing weirdness with my nicknames.
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<UmbralRaptor>
We need to get BPlayer a bouncer.
<BPlayer>
Sorry?
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<BPlayer>
And in my case, how would the Bouncer be useful?
<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
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<UmbralRaptor>
BPlayer: less in the way of join/pingout issues. Also, you'd always have scrollback.
<BPlayer>
A bouncer would not show the disconnects I experience sometimes?
<UmbralRaptor>
Yeah.
<BPlayer>
Ah, yes
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn egg|anbo|egg
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<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn anbocat
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gives anbocat a pre-order ?
<BPlayer>
I'm sorry for that, it's just that for the last week or so, I've been taking my phone to the basement while I was working on this RPi circuit project. And the connection there is really bad, so I had frequent pingouts, plus it disconnects momentarily whenever I switch from mobile data to WLAN.
<BPlayer>
Normally my connection is probably not the best, but definitely not as bad as you saw a few times in the last few days.
<BPlayer>
If it ever gets spammy/annoying, highlight me during an online phase, and I will kill my IRC client. Not like I need to be constantly connected while I am doing something else.
<BPlayer>
Or, if it gets real bad and I am not watching my highlights, just ban me for a minute, my client will stop reconnecting after it fails three times.
<UmbralRaptor>
hah
<BPlayer>
(I mean, sure, if it gets /real/ bad, ban me for more than a minute :P)
<bofh>
!wpn egg|anbo|egg
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<bofh>
!wpn anbocat
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