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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<kmath> <3PSboyd> Whether I feel like a supergenius or a flaming moron is highly dependent on whether I figured out the thing I was w… https://t.co/Sx6pMckoRm
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* egg|paris|egg stares at cyrillic italics
<egg|paris|egg> !wpn -add:adj international
<Qboid> egg|paris|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|paris|egg> !wpn -add:adj British
<Qboid> egg|paris|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|paris|egg> !wpn -add:adj thermal
<Qboid> egg|paris|egg: Adjective already added!
<egg|paris|egg> !wpn -add:wpn unit
<Qboid> egg|paris|egg: Weapon added!
<egg|paris|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark an invertible hydrofluoroolefin with an internet attachment
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<egg|paris|egg> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a thallium IDE
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* UmbralRaptop is slightly angry to see tethers thrown in with burning man. https://twitter.com/stephentyrone/status/1016889907636129792 >_>
<kmath> <stephentyrone> I take real issue with the fact that this article puts "eigenvector of a matrix" in scare quotes, but thinks "Burni… https://t.co/IoQofs2luY
<UmbralRaptop> <GlassYuri> I'm not a software engineer, I'm a game developer, the difference being that the standards are even lower
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<awang> Came across it and remembered you saying something about wanting to do some font-related fuzzing
<SnoopJeDi> UmbralRaptor, from a scientific conetxt: what the hell is a standard
<UmbralRaptor> SnoopJeDi: that thing that makes grad students cry because it doesn't actually exist?
<UmbralRaptor> Alternatively, we do have it for units!
<SnoopJeDi> who do you think is making the mess? :P
* SnoopJeDi 🔪 libraries that are concatenations of vaguely related theses with a gilding of consistency
* SnoopJeDi 🔪 codebase with foo->finalize() and foo->finalise()
<e_14159> So, apparently my master's student wants to discuss grading.
<SnoopJeDi> is this the same student who has just defended, e_14159?
<e_14159> Yes
<e_14159> And the same student who told me after his presentation that a 1.3 or 1 would be good for him.
<e_14159> (German grades: 1.0 to 4.0 in 0.3 steps are passing grades; 1.0 is the best possible. In a master's thesis at my uni, the only grades actually given are 1.0, 1.3, 1.6, and 2.0; extremely seldom there's a 2.3)
<SnoopJeDi> LOL
<SnoopJeDi> He sounds...confident?
<e_14159> Yes. His model also is the world's first XY (it's not an XY), and performs great (worse than the baseline), and would perform better if he'd had more GPU time (on average, more than six have been idle and available during his thesis), and wants to publish a paper with me about that.
<SnoopJeDi> this is basically my nightmare
<e_14159> As a student or as an advisor?
<SnoopJeDi> the former. being hapless *AND* unaware of it
<e_14159> I agree. That's a nightmare scenario
<e_14159> A large bias in your own self-perception; and how would you calibrate it?
<SnoopJeDi> I am at least aware of my own feckless nature as a student :P
<e_14159> You don't happen to study the impostor syndrome?
<UmbralRaptor> e_14159: aaaaaaaaa
<SnoopJeDi> e_14159, naw, just a bad fit for academia and maybe a little too complacent
<SnoopJeDi> I assume your student is at least passing, though...?
<e_14159> That he is, yes.
<e_14159> UmbralRaptor: bbbbbbbbbbbbb
<SnoopJeDi> if not passing as a stunning paragon who will shake the field to its bedrock, heh
<e_14159> "Exceptional" is the word you're looking for. "Lasting impression on his colleagues", another
<SnoopJeDi> egg|paris|egg, in which the Catalan numbers surprise some folks pondering random points on the unit 4-sphere https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/07/10/random-points-on-a-sphere-part-1/
<SnoopJeDi> and the tweet in question because Baez does not link it (:|) https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/1015384915058176001
<kmath> <sigfpe> Pick a pair of points uniformly randomly on the 4-sphere. Let S be the distance between them. E[S²ⁿ] is the (n+1)-t… https://t.co/EkvOct9GU8
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<awang> Erm
<awang> The log site thing is supposed to be logs.tmsp.io, right?
<SnoopJeDi> egg apparently said something yesterday about the logs being broken
<awang> Ah, that'd be it then
<awang> "Internal Server Error"
<awang> I was wondering if I got the URL right
* UmbralRaptor pokes Thomas
<awang> !wpn -add:adj collinear
<Qboid> awang: Adjective added!
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn anatidae
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn awang
* Qboid gives awang a busy pidgin
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* awang 🔪neovim
<awang> TIL "syntax on" inside a "!has('nvim')" block turns off syntax highlighting o_O
<awang> Even though syntax highlighting is on by default
<UmbralRaptor> o_O
<Qboid> [#8728] title: `syntax <opt>` inside false branch of `if` running prior to loaded scripts disables syntax highlighting | <!-- Before reporting: search existing issues and check the FAQ. -->... | https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/8728
<awang> I don't even know how this happens
<awang> Why is something inside the false branch of an if statement affecting program state
<awang> The programmer in me is crying in the corner because his worldview was just shattered into a billion pieces
<SnoopJeDi> awang, `syntax on` is not default behavior for any version of vim AFAIK, dunno about neovim though?
<SnoopJeDi> although I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of distros include it in /etc/vimrc as a de-facto default I guess?
<UmbralRaptor> SnoopJeDi: I wish.
<egg|paris|egg> депакотя
<bofh> I like how the Louvre is so gigantic that we saw about 33% of one exhibit, briskly went thru one room f another, and were basically constantly wakking, reading or discussing the immediate exhibit
<bofh> that place is *huge*
<UmbralRaptor> Schedule I kitten
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<awang> SnoopJeDi: It's default in neovim
<awang> Or at least that's what :h vim-diff says. idk how it's actually implemented