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>
<starkspace> Good news for the NASA astrophysics decadal survey. NASA now intends to do an independent cost estimate for both A… https://t.co/XdZio5EXui
<e_14159>
awang: Do they still come without nvidia GPUs?
<UmbralRaptor>
"The next Chexo meeting is scheduled for Friday September 7, 2018 and will be hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute. The meeting venue is the Bahcall Auditorium located in the Steven Muller Building."
<UmbralRaptor>
"Attendees will need to fill in a Citizenship Identification Form so that STScI can arrange escorts where necessary, by July 31. Everyone planning to attend needs to do this."
<SnoopJeDi>
e_14159, to what was your student's prose responding?
<e_14159>
SnoopJeDi: You mean the response I received? To my answer for him asking for a conclusion meeting (and talk about the grade), and me explicitly saying that I won't discuss grading with him
<SnoopJeDi>
--- point --->
<SnoopJeDi>
☁☁☁☁ ☁☁☁☁
<SnoopJeDi>
student
<e_14159>
"Also, grading is not something that's up for discussion." - maybe that was too unclear
<SnoopJeDi>
Some people have to bludgeoned halfway to death with the clue-by-four before the point sinks in
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<awang>
e_14159: Retina pros have AMD GPUs
<awang>
560X for the top-end 15", 555X for the base 15"
<awang>
UmbralRaptor: Sorry, forgot MBAs were a thing >_<
<UmbralRaptor>
awang: They're the best selling macs, right?
<SnoopJeDi>
Also, Guido is apparently frazzled enough by getting PEP 572 approved that he's taking "a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on your own"
<kmath>
<cosmos4u> 2017 YE5, only the fourth "equal mass" binary near-Earth asteroid ever detected (consisting of two objects nearly i… https://t.co/Ux8AcjBU7i
<awang>
TIL Python 3 isn't Turing-complete o_O
<awang>
Or at least I really hope it's a joke
<awang>
A horribly terrible one
<SnoopJeDi>
did you get that from Zed Shaw's incoherent rant?
<awang>
Indeed I did
<awang>
Saw a reference to it when reading about GvR's vacation
<SnoopJeDi>
file directly into the trash
<UmbralRaptor>
awang: *blink*
<whitequark>
awang: it isn't
<whitequark>
neither is C, or any other language that runs on actual computers
<whitequark>
being turing-complete requires infinite memory, that's like CS 101
<whitequark>
the notion of turing-completeness is typically used very informally, because in the strict sense it's only really useful in rather academic context
<kmath>
<megrar> @vanillavial My other cat is made of non-euclidean geometry and cannot be accurately photographed. Her name is Bast… https://t.co/51FqEzDl3B
<awang>
whitequark: Very true. Forgot about that little asterisk
<kmath>
<Astro_Wright> Heads up astronomy graduates! Help us find HZ planets! ⏎ ⏎ @mcdonaldobs is looking for a few good telescope operators… https://t.co/1K9mVkwJ7b
<egg|paris|egg>
UmbralRaptor: now i can actually deliver wpns to bofh by rocket artillery instead of having to use ICBMs (still need those for whitequark tho)
<egg|paris|egg>
котюша
<whitequark>
lol
<egg|paris|egg>
whitequark: speaking of whom, how are the cats doing?
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|paris|egg: more importantly, you can deliver coffee that way.
<egg|paris|egg>
UmbralRaptor: i have only seen bofh drink one coffee Ꙩ_ꙩ
<egg|paris|egg>
whitequark: we were wondering whether the wiring was cat-safe now
<whitequark>
always was
<whitequark>
has a GFCI
<egg|paris|egg>
ah good
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|paris|egg: Ꚛ_ꚛ
<egg|paris|egg>
whitequark: also we found that this is called a differential in both ru and fr and that's a good name
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<egg|paris|egg>
!wpn коте
* Qboid
gives коте a floofy theory of mind
<egg|paris|egg>
!wpn the котяchrome kitten
* Qboid
gives the котяchrome kitten a Sierpiński buffer overflow
<egg|paris|egg>
* Qboid gives коте a floofy theory of mind <<< appropriate
<iximeow>
!wpn stateful code
* Qboid
gives stateful code a fall lagoon
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn iximeow && hillexed
* Qboid
gives iximeow && hillexed a fluent
<hillexed>
wow I love having fluents
<UmbralRaptor>
It's like having ALL THE FLUXIONS!
<egg|paris|egg>
UmbralRaptor: today is guinea fowl day (cc bofh)
<kmath>
<eggleroy> 🌑 Δημόκριτος, the new release of Principia, is out, symplectically integrating gravitational forces on jumping Kerb… https://t.co/VkrOS9EhQt
<egg|paris|egg>
UmbralRaptor: oh gods where is that from