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.
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<AASRaptor>
soundnfury: that's considerably less bad, though.
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<soundnfury>
it'd be difficult to be considerably _more_ bad ;)
<kmath>
<allgebrah> Ouroboros theory 201: * Linking universes with Borromean ouroboroi * Beyond the unknot: Care and feeding of trefoil… https://t.co/EKS3LwS4lv
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* soundnfury
gives UmbralRaptor a boustrophedon
<soundnfury>
!wpn -add:adj menacing
<Qboid>
soundnfury: Adjective added!
<soundnfury>
!wpn -add:wpn octopus
<Qboid>
soundnfury: Weapon added!
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<whitequark>
f<double[true?2:3]>() should get a different name than f<double[false?2:3]>()
<whitequark>
or... something like that
<egg|phone|egg>
Why aren't those double[2] and double [3]?
<whitequark>
no idea
<whitequark>
ask someone who knows C++
<whitequark>
why the fuck do you think I know
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<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: I don't know, you where tweeting about it :-p
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: also, are there people who know C++
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<whitequark>
egg|zzz|egg: [citation needed]
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: ?
<whitequark>
for the claim that there are people who know C++
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: I had omitted the final question mark, but check the word order
<egg|zzz|egg>
(I should have put a trailing comma I guess)
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<egg|zzz|egg>
(and yes I agree that the answer to this question is negative)
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<whitequark>
oh, "are"
<whitequark>
I missed that
<whitequark>
not enoughsleep
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<egg|zzz|egg>
ENOSLP
<APlayer>
Well, shit
<Qboid>
APlayer: Ellied left a message for you in #kspacademia [11.01.2018 21:33:33]: "I added a special entry in my hosts file for sci-hub.org so it redirects to that IP; you might try something similar"
<APlayer>
I am running, probably for the first time of this PC's life, a real deep AV scan
<APlayer>
Took 15 hours so far and is only 50 % done, but found four trojans
<e_14159>
APlayer: Wipe everything?
<APlayer>
e_14159: Might be a sensible thing to do, but what for? May as well wipe everything every two years then, as a preventive measure
<APlayer>
Can't have a 100% clean PC nowadays
<e_14159>
Well, if you have malware on your computer, you can - under the admittedly somewhat pessimistic assumption of a competent author - assume you'll never get rid of it.
<e_14159>
Why not?
<e_14159>
(Discounting hardware security issues, of course)
<APlayer>
Wiping and re-installing the whole system would take two or three days, of which at least a few hours of my immediate work
<APlayer>
I don't use online banking or similar from this machine, and I honestly don't think it's worth this work
<APlayer>
At worst, this PC will be part of some botnet, because whatever else might happen would be some sort of ads
<APlayer>
And I can take different countermeasures against ads than wiping the system
<e_14159>
Well, if you don't have any sensitive stuff at all on that computer...
<APlayer>
What would be sensitive enough to wipe the system, anyway?
<APlayer>
Aside from NDA stuff, let's say
<e_14159>
Well, banking data should be safe enough due to TFA. Mail accounts, generally passwords, paypal, etc.
<e_14159>
Plus, it's the principle of the thing :-)
<APlayer>
No paypal, one mail account (But come on, what is there? Internship inquiries? Me sending people some of my programming projects?)
<e_14159>
Well, worst-case, it could be used to send your contacts malware-mails.
<APlayer>
I have no contacts on my mail account, even
<e_14159>
You have sent mails, right?
<APlayer>
Well, yes I did
<APlayer>
But that would require a careful analysis of the mails I sent and their recipients
<APlayer>
And anyway, this has not happened
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<whitequark>
APlayer: yes, wiping everything every two years is actually a good idea
<whitequark>
*cough*or not running windows*cough*
<whitequark>
(or at least installing updates religiously)
<APlayer>
I'd prefer the latter
<APlayer>
The second, that is
<APlayer>
When the scan is done, let me see what the trojans even are, might be false alarms
<APlayer>
(Though I doubt it)
<APlayer>
It seems to have sped up a lot during the last half hour, 94 % done now
<kmath>
<whitequark> OH: (paraphrased) "we use UTC, UT1 and TAI literals in our C++ code so that unit tests can verify that eclipses happen at the right time"
<APlayer>
Alright, Trojan Nr.1 is actually a stray file left from a legit install I performed a while ago
<APlayer>
No idea what the hell the other three are, though
<APlayer>
Anyway, off into quarantine with them
<APlayer>
Ellied: Sounds useful, will do that on my home PC. Knowing sci-hub's IP is still useful for school PCs, though
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<whitequark>
egg|zzz|egg: haha
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: so technically since I have UT1 I could make a pull request every time the EOP C04 series gets an update, which, is um, probably daily? But I just batch it in with the leap seconds
<UmbralRaptor>
"HITRAN resides on a tape which may be read off the CRAY-YMP computer."
<UmbralRaptor>
okay…
<UmbralRaptor>
There appears to be more FORTRAN later in the paper.
<soundnfury>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a Sapir-Whorf hypergolic surjection
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn soundnfury
* Qboid
gives soundnfury a long-range implosion
<soundnfury>
... it's only onto if your language has words that ignite on contact?
<UmbralRaptor>
Yes
<UmbralRaptor>
Incidentally, the paper is excellent documentation. Or would be if I were a NASA employee in the early 1990s.
<e_14159>
UmbralRaptor: I just thought the same thing. If I'm looking at ML papers, about 80% don't in any way publish their code. About 40% don't publish every detail needed to make it work.
<e_14159>
And one example had published hyperparameters in the paper, different hyperparameters in their published code, and (according to the authors) yet a third set of hyperparameters used during the experiments.
<UmbralRaptor>
e_14159: Have you tried setting the authors on fire, using their own paper as kindling?
<e_14159>
A tactical nuclear weapon at NIPS sounds promising, yes.
<UmbralRaptor>
e_14159: though with that ATRAN paper, the problem is that it's 2018, not 1992. There has to be a copy of the code and HITRAN database lying around on a server, right?
<e_14159>
UmbralRaptor: I mean, yes, it would be nice to be able to reproduce papers after twentyfive years. But I'd be somewhat happy if we could at least reproduce a paper for a year or so.
<UmbralRaptor>
e_14159: or with those authors, 30 seconds after typing "pdflatex"
<e_14159>
True.
<e_14159>
That's, by the way, what my whole setup is supposed to kind-of-solve: A singularity container plus a script to create encapsuled git-repo-managed folders to run experiments from.
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn e_14159
* Qboid
gives e_14159 a Kountdown
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a planetary espresso
<UmbralRaptor>
exocoffee!
* UmbralRaptor
🔪 QM in the normalization.
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<UmbralRaptor>
Hypothetical question: do journals besides ArXiv, PLOS, and sci-hub actually exist?
<UmbralRaptor>
(Okay, okay. NTRS is also a journal.)
<soundnfury>
UmbralRaptor: JIR
<UmbralRaptor>
Fair enough.
<UmbralRaptor>
maybe
<Ellied>
the physics department chair here uses FORTRAN, sometimes if you stand outside his office you can hear him mash space 7 times to begin a line
<UmbralRaptor>
That sounds oddly like a ghost story.
<soundnfury>
maybe it is
<soundnfury>
punch cards walk the halls at night, rattling their chads
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: oh did I tell you about Newhall's algorithm which we use in Principia
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|zzz|egg: I don't think so.
<egg|zzz|egg>
2.3. THE EXPORT SOFTWARE
<egg|zzz|egg>
The software package on the export tape sent to users contains a program for decoding
<egg|zzz|egg>
the tape and creating a direct-access file on mass storage. It also includes subroutines for
<egg|zzz|egg>
subsequent reading and interpolating the ephemeris file.