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| kanzure | Hello anthonyl. | 00:31 |
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| anthonyl | howdy | 00:31 |
| anthonyl | how's it goin? | 00:32 |
| kanzure | Going good. Compiling R. Plotting a 1000x1000 matrix. Life is good. | 00:34 |
| anthonyl | :-p i've never got around to playing around with R much other then peeking at the docs a few months ago | 00:36 |
| anthonyl | you enjoying it? | 00:36 |
| kanzure | not yet, so far it's broken my debian installation | 01:03 |
| kanzure | anybody know how to do conditional expressions in OO.o Calc? I want to color the cells with a background color based off of their values so that the minimum value in the dataset is more towards one end of the color spectrum. | 01:04 |
| anthonyl | found this on google, http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3642930.php it seems close to what you want | 01:08 |
| -!- anthonyl is now known as anthonyl|nap | 01:09 | |
| fenn | hello anthonyl|nap | 01:09 |
| fenn | enjoy your nap | 01:09 |
| fenn | kanzure: you've never heard of permaculture? | 01:09 |
| fenn | there was a lot of that in bloomington | 01:10 |
| fenn | or failed attempts at it, at least | 01:11 |
| fenn | how do they make sure the nucleotide goes through the cyclodextrin? | 01:12 |
| fenn | hell why not just run the whole strand through the pore and measure current as the nt's go by | 01:14 |
| kanzure | that's what the other groups do with nanopore sequencing | 01:26 |
| kanzure | http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/DNA_sequencing has some updated notes, I also edited the wikipedia article on the topic and did a bit of a dump | 01:27 |
| kanzure | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanopore_sequencing | 01:28 |
| kanzure | gnuplot doesn't do too well with a million data points in 3D space | 01:29 |
| kanzure | feels like something my GPU should be doing | 01:29 |
| * kanzure sighs in relief. /var/backup/dpkg.status.0 saves the day once again. | 02:12 | |
| fenn | what's that? | 02:16 |
| kanzure | it's a backup of /var/apt/dpkg/status | 02:22 |
| kanzure | so that when people do stupid things with dpkg (like interrupt a partial update of dpkg) they can at least partially fix things | 02:22 |
| kanzure | as they inevitably will do. those stupid things. er. | 02:22 |
| fenn | uff.. it includes all the descriptions and stuff, not just the name and version | 02:24 |
| kanzure | yes, I've been wondering how it processes so quickly | 02:26 |
| kanzure | then I remembered that it doesn't. | 02:27 |
| kanzure | (thus the lag when "reading package database") | 02:27 |
| kanzure__ | so kde decided to uninstall itself. KDE completely crashed when I copied OpenFOAM .so files into /usr/lib/ to satisfy R (which should have been my clue that something was wrong) | 03:58 |
| kanzure__ | and then kde wouldn't run again | 03:59 |
| kanzure__ | and now apt doesn't think kde is installed upon reboot | 03:59 |
| kanzure__ | and there's no dot debs laying around of the kde stuff on my system. How weird. | 03:59 |
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| -!- any92574966 is now known as katsmeow-afk | 04:22 | |
| -!- any65823170 is now known as katsmeow-afk | 04:29 | |
| -!- any21593270 is now known as katsmeow-afk | 04:32 | |
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| kanzure__ | error: cannot allocate vector of size 8 kb | 04:48 |
| fenn | computer abuser | 04:52 |
| -!- any12104786 is now known as katsmeow-afk | 04:52 | |
| kanzure__ | what's wrong with an 8 kb vector? | 04:52 |
| kanzure__ | this all started with me trying to install R | 04:53 |
| kanzure__ | it turns out that another lab somewhere is trying to use some data I randomly generated, or something | 04:53 |
| kanzure__ | they want to do clustering algorithms on the random data | 04:53 |
| kanzure__ | which is a very simple command in R (about four lines) | 04:53 |
| fenn | sounds highly irrelevant to the real world | 04:54 |
| kanzure__ | oh yes. definitely. | 04:54 |
| kanzure__ | and now my debian box is fucked up | 04:54 |
| kanzure__ | yay | 04:54 |
| fenn | apt-get -f install | 04:57 |
| kanzure__ | debconf had | 04:58 |
| kanzure__ | debconf had | 04:58 |
| kanzure__ | debconf had some broken preinst and postinst scripts | 04:58 |
| kanzure__ | so that was basically impossible | 04:58 |
| kanzure__ | and then upon rebooting, kde doesn't work, even after reinstalling it | 04:58 |
| kanzure__ | and then that no-vectors-greater-than-8-kb is kind of fishy | 04:58 |
| -!- fenn_ is now known as fenn | 05:30 | |
| fenn | too clever by half | 05:31 |
| fenn | Announcement March 31st, 2009 11:59:59 pm | 05:31 |
| kanzure__ | ? | 05:31 |
| fenn | Research group switches on world's first "artificial intelligence" tasked-array system. @ google | 05:31 |
| fenn | in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties. | 05:32 |
| fenn | oh noes | 05:33 |
| fenn | it's "cute" | 05:33 |
| kanzure__ | none of your messages are making sense | 05:58 |
| kanzure__ | it's a shame that they went from "let's go to Mars" to "I love pandas" | 06:21 |
| kanzure__ | http://www.youtube.com/cadiesingularity subscription to tylermerson? huh | 06:25 |
| kanzure__ | I know tyler.. | 06:25 |
| kanzure__ | why is tyler's profile avatar == eli? | 06:25 |
| kanzure__ | I think they just made singularity==panda in the mind of the public | 06:26 |
| fenn | it's unfortunate isn't it | 06:40 |
| fenn | not to mention exceedingly lame | 06:41 |
| kanzure__ | how many hits per hour do you think google.com gets? | 06:47 |
| kanzure__ | because Eli just got his image within 3 clicks of the most popular site on the internet | 06:47 |
| -!- any22116610 is now known as katsmeow | 06:48 | |
| kanzure__ | I guess you could figure it out from google black screen advocates | 06:48 |
| fenn | what's a "black screen advocate"? | 06:49 |
| kanzure__ | http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html | 06:49 |
| fenn | that's bullshit | 06:49 |
| kanzure__ | 200 million queries per day, so some percentage of these people might see the home page | 06:50 |
| fenn | the backlight is 100% on regardless what color the pixels are | 06:50 |
| kanzure__ | even if that's 1%, that's still 2 million people that see that link | 06:50 |
| kanzure__ | and then let's say only 1% of that 1% follow the youtube link on the next page, that's still 20,000 people that are being exposed to eli | 06:51 |
| kanzure__ | and I suspect that's a lower estimate on the number of page views that google's main page gets. | 06:51 |
| fenn | man it's such a pain in the ass to buy new electronics IC's | 07:16 |
| kanzure__ | All Hail Digikey, forever making you its bitch | 07:17 |
| kanzure__ | also, why am I awake | 07:17 |
| katsmeow | CADIE is a April 1st joke? | 07:18 |
| fenn | a poor one | 07:19 |
| katsmeow | well, it read well | 07:19 |
| katsmeow | i was even hopefulk | 07:20 |
| katsmeow | -k | 07:20 |
| fenn | at least Virgle didnt have awful youtube monologues | 07:21 |
| katsmeow | yeas that panda bear page made me cringe | 07:21 |
| kanzure__ | hurray, KDE is loading | 07:21 |
| katsmeow | fenn, anyone, an offtopic question: while i was googling for a word, i found others have used it, but not copyrighted it,, and i just used it as a domain name,, who owns the name, and can i? | 07:23 |
| fenn | nobody owns the name unless it's trademarked | 07:23 |
| fenn | look at uspto to see if it's trademarked | 07:24 |
| willPow3r | have you seen the google april fools joke? about the pigeon clusters | 07:25 |
| katsmeow | i thought CADIE was the joke | 07:26 |
| willPow3r | http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html | 07:26 |
| willPow3r | these "jokes" aren't as much fun when its widely known that its april 1st. | 07:28 |
| katsmeow | hmm, a patent for a 20080128108 Convective earrh coil | 07:29 |
| katsmeow | i should make one for a Convective earTh coil | 07:29 |
| katsmeow | a warm fuzzy feeling from a person who oks text/code for readability: Now in every language we're goverened by a readability captain. | 07:35 |
| * fenn salutes Captain Readability | 07:35 | |
| katsmeow | hail to our goverenor! | 07:36 |
| -!- katsmeow is now known as katsmeow-afk | 07:43 | |
| fenn | these guys have been watching too much star-trek (TOS) http://deltanu.com/inspector-raman/ | 07:55 |
| fenn | i wonder if it makes that 'squawk squawk' noise | 07:55 |
| fenn | looks like arrow electronics has a slightly better selection of CMOS camera sensors than digikey | 08:09 |
| fenn | i'm liking the mt9t031 | 08:18 |
| fenn | hmm accelerometers are only $5 from digikey.. i'm gonna stick these things everywhere | 08:42 |
| fenn | RFID + accelerometers = VR magic | 08:52 |
| UtopiahGHML | fenn: any mobile phone embedding an RFID reader? | 09:00 |
| UtopiahGHML | I considered playing with RFID tags and eventually offering some to my father but if there is a need for "yet another device" (reader+interface to computer or sth) it doesn't worth the trouble to me yet. | 09:01 |
| fenn | who cares.. mobile phones will never let you actually make use of their features | 09:24 |
| fenn | this is why i'm gluing together all sorts of stuff into a multi-use wearable electronics beastie | 09:25 |
| willPow3r | fenn, why don't you just cram it all into a fanny pack | 09:27 |
| fenn | because i want data on the position of my head mounted display | 09:28 |
| fenn | not the position of my fanny pack | 09:28 |
| fenn | now, RFID reader could go in the fanny pack | 09:28 |
| willPow3r | right, but the whole computing unit isn't going to be head mounted is it? | 09:28 |
| fenn | no, but it should be | 09:28 |
| fenn | ..eventually | 09:28 |
| willPow3r | after proof of concept | 09:29 |
| fenn | the main processor chip is like 1cm^2 | 09:29 |
| fenn | i have no idea how to make boards for that sort of thing though | 09:29 |
| fenn | so i'll stick with leg-mounted beagleboard for now | 09:29 |
| fenn | er. gumstix overo is small enough to be head mounted, but it doesn't have video-out and other reasons i forget | 09:30 |
| fenn | also there's the issue of batteries which will probably be heavy for the next ten years at least | 09:30 |
| willPow3r | batteries. what you need is some kind of wearable heat exchanger that uses your body as a heat engine | 09:32 |
| fenn | i am thinking about a cord-pull generator to go between shoe/belt | 09:32 |
| fenn | but it's not head-mounted and i wouldn't want it to be :) | 09:33 |
| willPow3r | lol | 09:33 |
| fenn | makes me think i might actually be living in the future after all http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8621 | 09:37 |
| willPow3r | a gps receiver? | 09:40 |
| fenn | a tiny futuristic-looking gps receiver | 09:40 |
| willPow3r | i thought it was a replacement receiver for a handheld gps unit | 09:41 |
| fenn | well i guess it could be.. but it does all the important stuff | 09:41 |
| willPow3r | true. it says 4800 bps | 09:41 |
| willPow3r | could be an allusion to next generation of wireless connectivity | 09:42 |
| fenn | eh? | 09:42 |
| fenn | 4800bps is just the baud rate for the NMEA location info | 09:42 |
| fenn | it's not like you're downloading anything from the satellite | 09:43 |
| fenn | how do i actually buy heat pipes from these guys? http://www.avc.com.tw/products/NB-Thermal.htm# | 09:44 |
| fenn | supposedly arrow is their distributor but i dont see any heat pipes in the catalog | 09:45 |
| willPow3r | looks like they're wholesale only | 09:49 |
| willPow3r | if you want a train car full of them im sure they will accommodate you | 09:49 |
| fenn | according to this page it is possible to buy them in small quantities http://www.molalla.net/~leeper/heat.htm | 09:50 |
| fenn | i guess i have to use that Tool of the Devil | 09:50 |
| kanzure__ | living in the future or living in the past? fenn, you just might be time jumping. | 13:49 |
| kanzure__ | before I forget, can somebody yell at me if I don't type up some stuff on my server about using elmerfem+gmsh+freefempp+gerris+netgen+tetgen+triangle, and another thingy about R or whatever it is that I'm doing with it | 13:59 |
| myelinzar | Hey RandIter. | 15:21 |
| RandIter | hello | 15:21 |
| RandIter | what are some of the routine and useful medical tests that one can do at home by oneself on a regular basis? i only want to know about those that don't cost too much. | 15:25 |
| RandIter | i guess some very basic ones are weight, pulse rate, urine ph | 15:26 |
| RandIter | if someone had a good microscope, maybe they could do more | 15:27 |
| RandIter | especially with urine | 15:28 |
| RandIter | or saliva | 15:28 |
| RandIter | blood sugar too, for some | 15:41 |
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| kanzure | http://uat2.iomer.com/PinkArmy/index.html | 18:21 |
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| -!- katsmeow is now known as katsmeow-afk | 19:16 | |
| -!- anthonyl|wrk is now known as anthonyl | 23:19 | |
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