egg|nomz|egg 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> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<kmath>
<bofh453> @bacondropped I like how I can instantly tell that's lapack just from reading any one of those filenames. They *are… https://t.co/ocgXESC9JE
<egg>
though tbh smpdtfmt is more in the "did someone order a bucket of vowels" category
<kmath>
<scanlime> The absolute epitome of human craftsmanship and architecture is discovering that you accidentally made a spot your… https://t.co/FLDqn3sEZh
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<egg|zzz|egg>
probably need some sort of optimization method to fit the periods (or if I go from the observational data, fit the transits, largely the same thing hopefully)
<egg|zzz|egg>
how do I evaluate the actual periods though, and how do I optimize? I Can't Believe It's Not Gradient Descent?
<egg|zzz|egg>
hmm, the Nature paper seems to use Levenberg–Marquardt and Nelder–Mead for TTV analysis
<SnoopJeDi>
ah yes, ICBINGRAD (pronounced "Ich bin grad")
<egg|zzz|egg>
I think bofh coined "I Can't Believe It's Not Gradient Descent" :-p
<SnoopJeDi>
I wonder if you could fold a croissant so it's got more folds at one end than the other
<SnoopJeDi>
it'd be a gradient crescent
<egg|zzz|egg>
groan.
<SnoopJeDi>
huh, TIL simplex is also known as the "amoeba method"
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: vaguely wondering whether it would be possible to do transit photometry from ANBO
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: probably the clouds don't help,
<SnoopJeDi>
There are certainly ground-based searches, but dunno how much of that is transit, I think a lot of it is RV?
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: WHY IN THE NAME OF PROCESSED CHEESE WOULD ANYONE SELF-ADMINISTER A HYDROFLUORIC ACID ENEMA?!?
<egg|zzz|egg>
"IN THE NAME OF PROCESSED CHEESE"
<egg|zzz|egg>
I should steal that
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: any idea about finding a TRAPPIST-1 principia initial configuration?
<egg|zzz|egg>
(or about transit photometry in meh skies or anything else in the backlog)
<egg|zzz|egg>
(the rest of the backlog is probably catpics tbh)
<whitequark>
bofh: cocaine, apparently
<whitequark>
I am still lost as to how you get from "cocaine" to "hydrofluoric acid enema" though
<whitequark>
like there are definitely some crucial steps missing
<whitequark>
and I'm saying this as someone who has read a lot of papers about people on meth doing things I would rather not even name in this channel
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: yeah, there are some missing steps here; perhaps the reviewer should have asked the author to elaborate on that
<UmbralRaptor>
egg: yay
<whitequark>
I gotta admit, "self-administered hydrofluoric acid enema" is not a sequence of english words I have ever expected to read
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: but now I'm still left wondering whether kitty or RC :-p (probably the kitty is better for visual or planetary?)
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: I mean I would not have expected to read the translation thereof in any language either
<UmbralRaptor>
Also, why would anyone put HF *in* their body?
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|zzz|egg: I don't feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to judge.
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: I guess the main optical differences are the smaller central obstruction in the kitty (the RC has field curvature, but with a flattener you get a similarly-structured kitty) and the ability to use the RC reflector-only (moar & redder photons)?
<kmath>
<ken_lunde> I successfully split L2-17-056 into two separate proposals, and just finished the less-controversial one that propo… https://t.co/hsRdlz1i88