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?
<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>
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
<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
* 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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