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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<bofh> !u ,
<Qboid> U+002C COMMA (,)
<iximeow> !u
<Qboid> What code point do you want me to look up?
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<mlbaker> bofh: Grobner bases rofl
<B787_300> UmbralRaptop: you ready for Amazon HQ2 to be in NoVa?
<UmbralRaptop> Probably not
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<bofh> mlbaker: so I accidentally a research project with https://www-polsys.lip6.fr/~jcf/
<B787_300> just think about what it will do to the housing prices
<bofh> mlbaker: I took too many stimulants one day and I emailed him some questions about approximate vanishing ideal algorithms and using them for Gröbner basis ordering
<bofh> mlbaker: and a research side project ensued.
<bofh> (yes that is literally what happened, apparently this is my version of drunk texting an ex)
<B787_300> stimulants?
<bofh> B787_300: ethylphenidate
<B787_300> bles you
<B787_300> ah Ritalin
<mlbaker> too good
<UmbralRaptop> B787_300: eek (I'm already looking at $1328/mo in rent)
<B787_300> 25k jobs in Crystal City for amazon
<UmbralRaptop> Coming Soon™: defense contractor named Amazon-Boeing
<whitequark> bofh: wtf
<bofh> whitequark: I was a bit tired, so I accidentally took like 100mg EPH instead of 40mg, and impulsively emailed Jean-Charles Faugère a question I otherwise prolly would've tried to figure out myself (unsuccessfully, since it's actually orders of magnitude more complicated than I had expected).
<bofh> whitequark: best part is this was pretty much entirely since @peroxycarbonate casually suggested poking him hours before.
<whitequark> nice
<SnoopJeDi> be the nerd-snipe you want to see in the world? :D
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: I feel like that's my life, described.
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, I fell down a much less mathematically interesting rabbit hole just a few hours ago: https://jamesgerity.com/sample_hypersphere.html
<SnoopJeDi> sampling some hyperspheres for particle distributions (because Gaussian beams are maybe not the best representation of reality, interstingly!), but couldn't immediately see a good way to go about it
<B787_300> https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html SnoopJeDi here have some aerospace truisms
<SnoopJeDi> Still kinda distrustful of this "uniformly sample the surface and then uniformly sample a volume fraction" but the orthogonal projections look right
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: skimming, it seems sensible?
<SnoopJeDi> doing the "2-sphere" made me a lot more confident
<SnoopJeDi> err, even though I just now notice a mistake in my plot title for the interior plot :P
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* UmbralRaptop stares at the first planets for the 2018 exocup
<SnoopJeDi> exocup?
<UmbralRaptop> eggsocup http://twitter.com/exo_cast
<UmbralRaptop> LBS 1140 b: a super earth with a density of 12.5 g/cm³
<UmbralRaptop> Surprisingly, it's potentially one of the more habitable known planets.
<SnoopJeDi> can't be hard to beat Earth these days
<UmbralRaptop> KELT-9b, putting the hot in hot jupiter.
<UmbralRaptop> yeah, Earth is hard to replace.
<UmbralRaptop> KELT-9b has a dayside temperature of 4050 K. This is I think comparable to. K7V star.
<SnoopJeDi> o.o
<UmbralRaptop> Yeah
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<SnoopJeDi> uh, I think I accidentally set my software to James Cameron's "The Abyss" mode? https://i.imgur.com/6rIBVL4.png
<SnoopJeDi> on the other hand, this simulation hasn't yet lost a single macroparticle, even with the far-more-strict loss criterion, so...yay?
<whitequark> is this loss
<SnoopJeDi> woof
<SnoopJeDi> I'm delighted how apparent the plasma relaxation is in these. Integrators: they work?
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<bofh> seriously literally everything this person draws somehow manages to brighten my day so much
<bofh> I don't know how or why but it *always* has that effect.
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<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: it seems a bit long for that
<whitequark> a bit what
<egg|zzz|egg> <whitequark> is this loss
<egg|zzz|egg> too many panels
<egg|zzz|egg> or maybe it's a director's cut thereof
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|work|egg> !u
<egg|work|egg> ʻ
<Qboid> What code point do you want me to look up?
<egg|work|egg> !u ʻ
<Qboid> U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA (ʻ)
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<bofh> egg|work|egg: today in "wtf": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhores_Alferov named for Jean Jaurès.
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* APlayer enjoys the fact that we are just short of landing people on Mars, but struggling to keep a probe alive on Venus for a few hours
<APlayer> Venus is an evil planet
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<SnoopJeDi> it's not evil, it's misunderstood!
<bofh> I mean this is why we lower the probe into its *cloud-tops*, not its surface >_>
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<SnoopJeDi> speaking of misunderstood, oh boy the stuff this Harvard 'Oumuamua paper has stirred up
<SnoopJeDi> nutter radio was going wild last night at the mere mention of a lightsail
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: goddamnit fucking hell I'm really annoyed at the Harvard press office over that.
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, did they write a bad PR on top of clickbait?
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: oh, no, it seems to be *entirely* like, fucking CNN and usatoday picking up on the PREPRINT?!
<bofh> this is actually not the usual clickbait route, I'm kind of shocked. it's fairly rare the Science News Cycle goes direct from Paper to CNN Eyewitless News
<SnoopJeDi> eyewitless lmao
<SnoopJeDi> It's a bummer that the public can only find wonder in an *amazing* event if it's aliens
<SnoopJeDi> the 'boring' scenario is SO. COOL.
<APlayer> What's the paper?
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: what's the "boring" scenario? Light radiation pressure on a high surface-area-to-mass object?
<SnoopJeDi> not-aliens
<SnoopJeDi> but really exciting first extrasolar object!
<SnoopJeDi> err, interstellar*, not sure if it's the first extrasolar as well
<bofh> I mean that's arguably *much* cooler, honestly.
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<SnoopJeDi> UmbralRaptop, is this from a Scalzi tweet?
<UmbralRaptop> Unsure
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* egg|zzz|egg scritches bofh
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<egg|zzz|egg> mrow
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