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<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>
(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