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<umbralraptop> ...*what* parallax? https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07529
<galois> title: [2109.07529] Constraining H0 Via Extragalactic Parallax
<umbralraptop> And out to z ~ 0.05?
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* umbralraptop stares at my records. I'm pretty sure the last touristy things I did were in November 2019
<umbralraptop> (One was actually a side effect of a work trip, and the other was meeting with a person from another channel at Air&Space)
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<umbralraptop> !wpn SnoopJ
* galois gives SnoopJ an octodon
<SnoopJ> !wpn umbralraptop
* galois gives umbralraptop a chalice
<galois> SnoopJ: 2021-08-26 - 21:33:34UTC <raptop> tell SnoopJ https://twitter.com/GamingAlexandri/status/1430987095808614402
<galois> Further messages sent privately
<umbralraptop> long time, no see
<SnoopJ> umbralraptop, thanks, those are all nifty, especially the SC2k content
<SnoopJ> yea, took a break (clearly)
<SnoopJ> probably wouldn't have come back on except that I am scratching my head trying to figure out why MADV_DONTDUMP doesn't do what I expected it to do, trying to shrink some core files...
<SnoopJ> feel like I haven't been a very good person on IRC or uh, elsewhere, lately
<SnoopJ> umbralraptop, how are things?
<umbralraptop> Classes have restarted, and I'm currently doing in-person observatory tours 2 days/week
<umbralraptop> The paper is like 99% done (as in that much done after co-authors have supplied comments), but severe focus and motivation issues continue >_<
<umbralraptop> Δ may of course push us back to online-only tours
<SnoopJ> remind me what the paper is on
<SnoopJ> also TIL ramen is written with kana
<SnoopJ> (and also what the heck is the etymology of 拉麺?)
<umbralraptop> ...crushed noodles?
<SnoopJ> oh, loanword
* umbralraptop feels like there was a lot of weirdness during the Meiji era where a bunch of words were borrowed with kanji
<SnoopJ> wiktionary gives readings for 拉 starting with "drag, pull, draw"
<umbralraptop> The paper is on RV (radial velocity) survey simulations
<SnoopJ> wonder why jisho doesn't have any of those; as you say, maybe weirdness
<umbralraptop> sorta like 引く?
<SnoopJ> oh neat, RV is cool. I like how straightforward the technique is
<SnoopJ> hmm, maybe
<umbralraptop> Basic RVs are reasonably straightforward. PRVs get into some degree of magic
<umbralraptop> sometimes
* SnoopJ should really resume 日本語
<umbralraptop> But, consider: comparison sources from lamps or gas cells (or weirder things like etalons or laser frequency combs), various temperature/pressure stabilization techniques, concerns about varying telluric absorption, a little bit of relativity...
<umbralraptop> uh, telluric as in earth's atmosphere
<SnoopJ> umbralraptop, what are the relevant simulations establishing? limits on what can be done, or more like "here's what a survey might look like" (or...both, I guess?)
<umbralraptop> I find that the big green owl is useful for a certain baseline of stuy
<SnoopJ> !wpn -add:wpn comb
<galois> Added wpn 'comb'
<SnoopJ> !wpn -add:wpn etalon
<galois> Added wpn 'etalon'
<SnoopJ> !wpn -add:adj interferometric
<galois> Entry already exists!
<umbralraptop> here's what a survey that can find Earth 2.0 around Sol 2.0 within ~5 pc would look like
<SnoopJ> neat
<umbralraptop> (We talked with a bunch of experts, got what eventually became 7 architectures, and simualted them. We weakly reccomend some over the others)
<SnoopJ> also agreed re: owl, it certainly got me from knowing absolutely nothing to still knowing nothing but able to pretend that I know a thing
<umbralraptop> Initial results at: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/NNExplore/EPRV/
<galois> title: Exoplanet Program: EPRV
<umbralraptop> (This is not the paper, but the technical report amounts to a draft of the paper)
<SnoopJ> nifty
<umbralraptop> There's also a semi-companion paper being done by another group (lead by a Jacob Luhn) that's doing some stellar activity considerations on related data
<umbralraptop> (The surveys make some design decisions that on average minimize stellar activity, but as a simplifying assumption they're not correctly tuned on a per-star basis, so they don't do as much as they should)
<umbralraptop> Also, we handwave other activity but are arguing for a bunch of dedicated instruments, which would give us the number and kind of observations that would let us mitigate a bunch
* umbralraptop unfortunately has little idea of what's going on with SnoopJ on the job front
<SnoopJ> umbralraptop, unchanged since Nov 2019, I cut and ran (still in that embarrassingly ¾-done state 😬) and am still working with the computer vision company
<SnoopJ> Getting paid is nice and there's more respect (albeit not *much* more) for individual humanity, but the rest of the mental pressures naturally came along for the ride.
<umbralraptop> hrm
<SnoopJ> I feel like I have to do a lot of managing-up in this role, my supervising took a big step when we merged two teams after another lead left
<SnoopJ> not the best attitude when it comes to...uhh, inclusivity is a word kinda near it, I guess? Very typical "I have lots of uninformed dunks on languages that aren't C++" stuff, which is exhausting since I am mostly writing Python for this company.
<umbralraptop> aaaaa
* SnoopJ glances meaningfully at in-house C++ web server built on popsicle sticks
<SnoopJ> job's decent, though, lots of freedom and some cool problems (our CV is for the manufacturing space, think automated quality assurance)
<umbralraptop> shiny
<SnoopJ> company started really locking in that target market just before I joined, launched an on-site product last June, got a bunch of integration partners (resale) on board, and it's just now started to be deployed on honest-to-gosh factory floors
* SnoopJ merited an "unsatisfactory" rating from his advisor in the last eval, which is very reasonable
<SnoopJ> I figure the only way I could get him to read my draft and give me useful feedback is if I go to Texas and force-feed it to him one page at a time.
<umbralraptop> Which presumably would make actually finishing hard even without the pandemic
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