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.
* awang 🔪 US metallurgists
<awang> Seriously, why are you still using "Columbium"
<UmbralRaptor> Are you sure you're not reading a paper on the X-15 from when it was flying?
<awang> Any other old names I should know about? /s
<awang> UmbralRaptor: No, this is a report I just got today
<awang> From a test performed two weeks ago
<UmbralRaptor> aaaaa
<awang> I really hope they aren't using any old names that conflict with current ones
<awang> Otherwise this program is going to have to ask "Did you mean Cl as in chlorine or Cl as in columbium"?
<bofh> what the hell is Columbium?
<bofh> Oh, Niobium. WHAT THE HELL.
* awang 🔪 more US metallurgists
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn awang, bofh, UmbralRaptor, et al.
* Qboid gives awang, bofh, UmbralRaptor, et al. a flux
<UmbralRaptor> ∇flux
<UmbralRaptor> TFW a parent is complaining about stuff in a game being too tiny because it's column boxing 1024x768 in a 1366x768 monitor, rather than stretching it out (and the "too small" was on a monitor ~2" smaller in diagonal than the one where the game was displaying "correctly")
<UmbralRaptor> And by "correctly" I mean stretched out.
<UmbralRaptor> bofh: on a random note, have you found a good witch hat?
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<bofh> UmbralRaptor: thanks for the reminder, I found 3 and am debating which to get.
<UmbralRaptor> Yay.
<iximeow> UmbralRaptor: bofh: witch hat?
<UmbralRaptor> …was all the discussion of that on bofh's 🔒 account?
<UmbralRaptor> (see, it turns out that like half the channel are witches…)
<iximeow> i may have just missed the discussion
<iximeow> oh yes
<iximeow> that wasn't questioning *why*, that was more an indicator of interest
<iximeow> as i also would like a witch hat
<UmbralRaptor> Hah!
<kmath> <Miles_Brundage> "Dank Learning: Generating Memes Using Deep Neural Networks," Peirson and Tolunay: https://t.co/dUdA0VDaYo ⏎ ⏎ Stanfor… https://t.co/xdEFtyNsWo
<bofh> iximeow: sec,let me pull up the relevant etsy pages
<bofh> UmbralRaptor: I also just bought a Ce+3:YAG gemstone, lol.
<UmbralRaptor> Wait, is that used in lasers?
<UmbralRaptor> Oh, just Neodymium and Erbium doped YAG.
<bofh> it's a scintillator, primarily.
<UmbralRaptor> There needs to be a word for a shirt that one really likes but would be embarrassed to wear anywhere. https://www.sabakuart.com/collections/mens/products/knowledge-and-strength
<bofh> so like I'm not sure what's embarrassing about that shirt, it's pretty awesome.
<bofh> like I'd honestly be tempted to get it myself if I had money
<bofh> https://www.sabakuart.com/collections/womans/products/blue-on-blue-1 same for this one if it came with shorter sleeves >_>
<SnoopJeDi> the two-flower tramp stamp thing on the back is a little off-color :P
<UmbralRaptor> That is indeed nice
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: oh, hadn't noticed that. yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
<SnoopJeDi> my wardrobe used to be pretty close to exclusively shirt.woot.com stuff
<SnoopJeDi> I lost https://shirt.woot.com/offers/alien-invader on travel though :(
<SnoopJeDi> (which is probably for the best, since it was way too big)
<bofh> Mine is still predominantly free conference/tech shirts and stuff from thrift stores :/
<Ellied> cool, my battery indicator says "-nan%"
<Ellied> acpi has no idea what's going on
<Ellied> battery still appears to work at least
<SnoopJeDi> energy crisis solved
<bofh> Ellied: it means that according to ACPI battery sense, your battery is using naan bread as an electrolyte separator.
<Ellied> that must be it
<UmbralRaptor> Definitely that. Have you tried using a mango chutney to recharge it?
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, I mean. ghee would probably be a pretty good insulator?
<SnoopJeDi> for special values of "pretty good"
<bofh> ...now I'm curious what the dielectric constant at DC for ghee is.
<SnoopJeDi> probably very comparable to garden-variety butter
<SnoopJeDi> ...I should make za'atar and bread.
<bofh> (fun fact: trying to find out what the dielectric constant of cheez whiz is is how I found that "Dielectric Properties of Processed Cheese DC - 300MHz" paper).
<SnoopJeDi> :D
<UmbralRaptor> ^
<bofh> http://www.sciencedirect.com.sci-hub.tw/science/article/pii/S0260877405002839 for the curious (also it was 300MHz - 3GHz, so I guess this is especially useful if you want to use processed cheese in your antenna hookups)
<SnoopJeDi> presumably it's for quality-assurance? :P
<bofh> Yeah, dielectric spectroscopy of foods
<SnoopJeDi> would make a good surrealist sci-fi scene though. "Couple the nagivational deflector into the cheese-mass" "She cannae take it captain!"
<bofh> ROFL
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, one of the best undergraduate presentations I've seen was on Raman spec of Phase I/II crystals in chocolate :)
<SnoopJeDi> I almost wish we had the setup capability to do that measurement live in our physics of cooking dealie. People love watching a professional temper chocolate, heh.
<bofh> okay that actually sounds both incrediby cool *and* tasty.
<SnoopJeDi> it got a good turnout both this year and last
<SnoopJeDi> although this year was *much* better
<bofh> Nice.
<SnoopJeDi> measuring the Young's modulus of steak before/after cooking to different temperatures
<bofh> ROFL I APPROVE
<SnoopJeDi> David Weitz's labs-you-can-eat class seems pretty popular, and I can see why based on the guy's presentation
<SnoopJeDi> his emulsions-on-a-chip research is *incredible* too
<bofh> I kind of want to read it, it sounds interesting.
<bofh> astoundingly, it is.
<SnoopJeDi> I wish it had the animations in it. There are great videos of the microfluidics in operation, and they're astounding.
<bofh> are they not in the SI, out of curiosity?
<SnoopJeDi> the SI?
<bofh> supplementary info
<SnoopJeDi> oh, not for that one
<SnoopJeDi> they're appended to some other paper
<bofh> huh. interesting. damn.
<SnoopJeDi> more recent, I think that one up there was from fairly early in the process
<SnoopJeDi> some makeup manufacturer bought a patent/process from them IIRC
<SnoopJeDi> for some delayed-release multi-component moisturizer or something
<bofh> Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting.
<SnoopJeDi> ...there might have been phosopholipid bilayer stuff in their newer research, too?
<SnoopJeDi> oh, polymersomes
<bofh> At this point I feel like it's hitting the edge of my knowledge and I need to catch up oj background first, but that sounds *really* cool.
<SnoopJeDi> biotech is intensely cool stuff
<SnoopJeDi> I regularly remind my colleagues that we're in the wrong field
<bofh> I mean, tbh, prolly accurate.
* UmbralRaptor is just happy to be in a field where I can explain what I do. >_>
<kmath> <Astro_Wright> Wow, PAGB and supergiant stars have *very* Dyson-spherey spectra. Check out this one. @ESAGaia puts it at 370 pc,… https://t.co/6r18wNSC7A
<bofh> "Dyson-spherey spectra" is not a phrase one hears every day.
<UmbralRaptor> :D
<kmath> <Astro_Wright> And check out Dick Carrigan's best candidate (but not aliens) from his 2005 paper. Just a few-hundred K blackbody… https://t.co/GGtUJ5P8J3
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<kmath> <✔MarsRovers> The Martian dust storm blotting out the sun above Opportunity has continued to intensify. It blankets a quarter of… https://t.co/1xf18VW6yR
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<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: #catcognition https://twitter.com/farbodsaraf/status/1005361441858310144
<kmath> <farbodsaraf> Video games are great, but sometimes it's nice to unplug and play a game of Jenga with your cat https://t.co/SJd9SloJOp
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<bofh> UmbralRaptor: I'm so nervous about Opportunity, holy heck. :/
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<egg|work|egg> !seen whitequark
<Qboid> egg|work|egg: I last saw whitequark on [11.06.2018 22:30:53] in #kspacademia saying: "what for? maybe it only makes BD people dumber"
<egg|work|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a zircon Oxford ctenophore
<egg|work|egg> bofh: ISO 646 jokes best jokes
<egg|work|egg> bofh: I mean speaking of ISO 646, *points at IRC*
<egg|work|egg> egg\work\egg
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<egg|work|egg> !wpn bofh
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<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|work|egg
* Qboid gives egg|work|egg a fuzzy set which vaguely resembles an exchanger
<egg|work|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a really big ordinateur
<egg|work|egg> um.
<UmbralRaptor> EN-FR?
<egg|work|egg> aaaaaaa
<bofh> LOL
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<SilverFox> have a meme
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<kmath> <JSheltzer> life in the lab https://t.co/83xkTeIUZt
<egg|work|egg> hahaha
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<UmbralRaptop> The TSA checkpoint at SAF definitely felt like it was missing a person. Also, seating afterwards suggests that they're struggling with jets as large as an ERJ-145.
<bofh> uhm. that is not exactly what I would call a large jet
<UmbralRaptop> Incidentally, I haven't seen any enterprise software ads here.
<bofh> Oh that explains everything.
<UmbralRaptop> Eggsactly.
<egg|work|egg> UmbralRaptop: are you sure this is an airport
<bofh> Can't have a functional airport w/o enterprise software ads.
<egg|work|egg> eggsactly
<UmbralRaptop> I'm not sure that they've upgraded from when DC-3s and Boeing 247s flew out of it.
<bofh> from my experience with SAF, that's likely accurate
<UmbralRaptop> Whee, deplaning. apparently there's a leak, and they need to replace an o-ring.
<kmath> <vacant3rdman> I think PlaneWave Instruments win the "biggest thing on display in the #SPIEastro exhibition" prize with this teles… https://t.co/ECbT2ezgl7
<kmath> <martinjohndyer> Perhaps the most important talk of #SPIEastro #Python https://t.co/M15ZKd8cDG
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<e_14159> So, my student actually managed to correct the spelling of my name.
<egg|work|egg> !!!
<e_14159> Not there's only one error in it...
<e_14159> s/Not/Now
<Qboid> e_14159 meant to say: Now there's only one error in it...
<e_14159> (By it, I mean my name)
<e_14159> On the one hand, it's progress. On the other hand...
<UmbralRaptop> s/e_14159/e_{14159}/ ?
<e_14159> Rather like e_1459
<UmbralRaptop> Yay, reboarding.
<egg|work|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptop
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptop a labeled squeezable snek
* UmbralRaptop squeezes the snek 3 times.
<egg|work|egg> is the snek smol
<egg|work|egg> smol_snek_case
<e_14159> WingedRaptop?
<UmbralRaptop> e_14159: yes. Also a pair of turbofans.
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<bofh> WTF there's a good chance this martian dust storm will be GLOBAL in the next 2-3 days.
<bofh> a dust storm covering *all* of Mars.
<bofh> what the fuck.
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<SnoopJeDi> lucky us
<bofh> like that's such a strange concept.
<bofh> a storm covering a *planet*
<SnoopJeDi> this scale of dust storm was predicted before, right?
<SnoopJeDi> just not "oh welp yep there it is"
<bofh> predicted but I don't know if we have real data. I *think* the last GDS we had on Mars was in 2001 at Ls ~ 185
<bofh> Oddly this one's started at Ls = 190 which also is apparently early for dust storm season on Mars.
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<SnoopJeDi> so apparently Markov's work was inspired by him being annoyed at Nekrasov for saying that the law of large numbers implies free will.
<SnoopJeDi> stay petty, scientific history.
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<bofh> rofl
<bofh> I mean arguably Markov's right :P
* UmbralRaptop waves from DEN.
<SnoopJeDi> !wpn UmbralRaptop
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptop an impedance-matched VS-15
<SnoopJeDi> !wpn bofh
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<bofh> !wpn SnoopJeDi, UmbralRaptop et al
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* UmbralRaptop presents as emoji!
<UmbralRaptop> Landing was, uh, eggciting.
<SnoopJeDi> oh are you on your way back now, UmbralRaptop?
<UmbralRaptop> (abort on north landing due to headwinds, landed facing south somewhat later)
<UmbralRaptop> SnoopJeDi: yeah
<SnoopJeDi> how was it?
<UmbralRaptop> Also, open air walk into the terminal. o_O
<UmbralRaptop> SnoopJeDi: Santa Fe? Pretty good.
<SnoopJeDi> it was a...workshop?
<kmath> <josVEVO> what do you call a nuclear ice fairy? ⏎ ⏎ cirnobyl!
<UmbralRaptop> SnoopJeDi: family
<SnoopJeDi> oh!
<UmbralRaptop> bofh: I don't get it =\
<SnoopJeDi> http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Cirno apparently
<UmbralRaptop> thanks
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, HOLY SHIT look how much dust got blown into Valles Marineris: http://wwwcdn.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Mars-dust-storm-before-after-Damian-and-Anthony.jpg
<SnoopJeDi> (the East-West feature in the center)
<iximeow> o_O
<iximeow> shake the etch-a-sketch!
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: HOLY HELL
<UmbralRaptop> !!!
<awang> Wait, is that supposed to be black under the dust?
<SnoopJeDi> awang, so on the left is pre-dust. It's light on the right because the rock is covered in (reflective) dust
<SnoopJeDi> (Valles Marineris is *really* deep)
<kmath> <✔kevinschawinski> Gorgeous eagle. ⏎ Source: https://t.co/dJMPCpqWKS https://t.co/aYiWVch3cz
<kmath> <eggleroy> 🌑 Dedekind, the new release of Principia, is out, plugging an embarrassing memory leak, and bringing with it a patc… https://t.co/uBenrlTrjE
<egg|zzz|egg> !u M
<Qboid> U+004D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M (M)
<egg|zzz|egg> hmmm
<kmath> <ClapRobot> 🌑👏Dedekind,👏the👏new👏release👏of👏Principia,👏is👏out,👏plugging👏an👏embarrassing👏memory👏leak,👏and👏bringing👏with👏it👏a👏patc… https://t.co/DFaPjH92lb
<iximeow> LOL
<egg|zzz|egg> Ꙩ_ꙩ
<iximeow> clapbot is excited about principia
<egg|zzz|egg> apparently
<egg|zzz|egg> how does that bot pick its tweets
<bofh> LOL
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: how do you like the identifier deмcmc :-p
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<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: extremely
<bofh> s/ex/eggs/
<Qboid> bofh meant to say: egg|zzz|egg: eggstremely
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<kmath> <paigebyerly> Not usually big on puns but this science-y boat name is so good https://t.co/LUTPRPslHC
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<UmbralRaptop> … apparently I need to get in a tram to get from my gate to the baggage claim.
<UmbralRaptop> (Why IAD, why?)
<kmath> <elakdawalla> Zurek: Opportunity is in a windy place, and as long as dust isn't being lifted locally, the wind will actually clea… https://t.co/YymxRjlAAF
<egg|phone|egg> !Wpn bofh
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<bofh> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg an int synapsid
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