--- Log opened Mon May 14 00:00:09 2012 00:01 -!- strages_home [~strages@adsl-98-81-19-3.hsv.bellsouth.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 00:52 -!- jmil [~jmil@c-68-81-252-40.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: jmil] 01:00 -!- Mariu [Jimmy98@89.41.57.33] has joined ##hplusroadmap 01:26 -!- Dr_K_line [~userid@c-24-61-126-211.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 01:30 -!- yashgaroth [~f@cpe-66-27-117-179.san.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 01:35 -!- sylph_mako [~mako@118-93-18-64.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 01:56 < jennicide> kanzure, are you awake? 02:17 -!- sylph_mako [~mako@118-93-18-64.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz] has joined ##hplusroadmap 02:59 -!- sylph_mako [~mako@118-93-18-64.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 03:03 -!- sylph_mako [~mako@118-93-18-64.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:13 -!- sylph_mako [~mako@118-93-18-64.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 03:28 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@pppdyn-33.stud-ko.rz-online.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:28 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@pppdyn-33.stud-ko.rz-online.net] has quit [Changing host] 03:28 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:33 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:57 -!- joshcryer [~g@unaffiliated/joshcryer] has quit [] 05:58 -!- strages_home [~strages@adsl-98-81-19-3.hsv.bellsouth.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:04 -!- Proteus1 [~Proteus@67-3-161-190.omah.qwest.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:04 -!- Proteus [~Proteus@unaffiliated/proteus] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 06:05 <@kanzure> jennicide: somewhat 06:10 < jennicide> If philosophers concede Bunge's binary conception of knowledge, then it follows that knowledge of multiple subsets of knowledge are commonsensical. 06:10 < jennicide> how does that read 06:10 < jennicide> If one were to accept Bunge's binary conception of knowledge, then it follows that knowledge of multiple subsets of knowledge are commonsensical. 06:10 < jennicide> is 06:11 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 06:13 <@kanzure> jennicide: it reads like a philosophy paper 06:13 < jennicide> it is 06:13 < chevbird> kanzure: do you sleep? 06:13 < jennicide> If one were to accept Bunge's binary conception of knowledge, then it follows that knowledge of multiple subsets of knowledge is commonsensical as it is not scientific. As such, the argument should be framed to appeal to an individual's commonsense. 06:17 <@kanzure> chevbird: only with women, etc. etc. 06:18 <@kanzure> jennicide: do you mean "is as commonseniscal as not scientific"? 06:19 < jennicide> If one were to accept Bunge's binary conception of knowledge, then it follows that knowledge of multiple subsets of knowledge is commonsensical, because it is not scientific knowledge. As such, the argument should be framed to appeal to an individual's commonsense. 06:20 <@kanzure> "the argument" being.. accepting his notion? 06:21 < jennicide> oh 06:22 < jennicide> As such, the argument for philosophically derived knowledge should be framed to appeal to an individual's commonsense. 06:26 -!- superkuh [~superkuh@unaffiliated/superkuh] has quit [Quit: the neuronal action potential is an electrical manipulation of reversible abrupt phase changes in the lipid bilayer] 06:26 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:28 <@kanzure> "Unlike scientific knowledge, an argument for philosophically derived knowledge-- such as Bunge's binary conception of knowledge-- should be framed to appeal to an individual's commonsense." 06:29 < jennicide> bunge's conception of knowledge doesnt really include a space for philosophically derived knowledge 06:29 < jennicide> not implicitly 06:29 < jennicide> im just kind of shoe horning it in 06:32 -!- superkuh [~superkuh@unaffiliated/superkuh] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:33 * nsh offers around a plate of complementary hyphens 06:36 <@kanzure> nsh: what's up? i saw your distress signal the other day 06:38 < nsh> dealing with a few health issues 06:38 < nsh> gam zeh ya'avor 07:00 -!- jmil [~jmil@2607:f470:8:3148:a939:3abe:a05d:7ca4] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:37 -!- _0bitcount [~ulises11@81.61.209.167.dyn.user.ono.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:48 -!- chillyvanilly [~chillyvan@207.178.197.130] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:59 -!- azonenberg [~azonenber@2001:470:888b:2:206:70ff:fe01:46] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 09:24 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 09:25 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 09:36 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@pppdyn-5b.stud-ko.rz-online.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:36 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@pppdyn-5b.stud-ko.rz-online.net] has quit [Changing host] 09:36 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:00 -!- nmz787 [~Nathan@cpe-67-242-177-23.rochester.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:14 -!- augur [~augur@206.196.185.153] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:16 <@kanzure> win 6 10:16 <@kanzure> dasdasfadasdasdfasda 10:16 <@kanzure> jrayhawk: i've been using p/n i swear 10:17 < jrayhawk> ha ha ha 10:18 <@kanzure> maybe i should tie it to some financial incentive 10:19 <@kanzure> every time i use /win, irssi will transfer money from my account to yours 10:19 <@kanzure> however, this might just incentivize me to not switch windows at all 10:20 < jrayhawk> You can also use /window move to shuffle your most-used windows closer to eachother. 10:20 <@kanzure> yep, i have them clustered 10:20 <@kanzure> i try to avoid moving over 'active' windows that i don't intend to immediately respond to 10:20 <@kanzure> this way, the notifications are still pending 10:21 < jrayhawk> alt-1 through alt-9 are also faster than /win 10:22 <@kanzure> alt-n is tied into my gnome-terminal session 10:22 < jrayhawk> assuming you're not foolishly attempting to use screen 10:23 <@kanzure> i suppose i should setup different gnome-terminal profiles with different keyboard bindings, one for the session with ssh/irssi 10:23 < jrayhawk> window management functions should really use Super_L instead of alt 10:24 <@kanzure> true i sorta ignore that key for some reason 10:24 <@kanzure> this is stupid, if i had enough monitors i wouldn't need hidden windows 10:24 < jrayhawk> i like that attitude 10:26 <@kanzure> i want something like this for rotating out a certain monitor in my 10-set: 10:26 <@kanzure> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L03za762jA#t=2 10:28 <@kanzure> possibly better example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol_sFbcKekM#t=16 10:31 < jrayhawk> http://www.ergotron.com/ stepper motors+ergotrons+face tracking to keep the monitors perfectly aligned 10:32 -!- splicer [~ubuntu@c83-255-190-140.bredband.comhem.se] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 10:35 < nmz787> i read something crazy eariler about what i think was implying something like quantum entanglement between DNA/genes, their mRNA, and subsequently proteins... as well as between chromosomes of a multicellular body 10:35 < nmz787> http://www.emergentmind.org/gariaevI3.htm 10:36 < nmz787> i have no idea if its prodigal genius that most normal ppl couldn't possibly understand for another 100 years 10:36 < nmz787> or if its just quackery 10:38 <@kanzure> jrayhawk: http://www.forecast-consoles.com/products/sightline/mounting_options is a wall-rail mounting system, but i'm not convinced 10:39 <@kanzure> jrayhawk: i'm not satisfied until individual monitors are under mechanical control and can be switched out via the keyboard 10:39 < nmz787> "Controlling metabolism by IR laser beams and DNA functioning 10:39 < nmz787> by maser beams?" 10:39 < nmz787> sect 6, pg 34 http://www.emergentmind.org/PDF_files.htm/conscholo0302.PDF 10:40 < jrayhawk> why do you want to swap them out, anyway 10:41 <@kanzure> jrayhawk: i have a limited field of vision. i could rotate my chair and possibly surround myself with monitors, but there is still a physical limit to how many monitors can be stuffed in front of me 10:42 <@kanzure> i suppose at that point, virtual desktops are okay :/ 10:43 <@kanzure> http://www.stocktradingtogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/multi-monitor-setup.jpg identify the blue bottle! 10:43 < nmz787> how big and how many panels you have now? 10:44 <@kanzure> sadly i am down to two, but at one point i had seven-ish 10:44 <@kanzure> oh, sorry, three right now 10:44 < jrayhawk> http://www.omgwallhack.org/home/jrayhawk/img/hovel/20120512_008.jpg NOT ENOUGH 10:45 -!- splicer [~ubuntu@c83-255-190-140.bredband.comhem.se] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:45 <@kanzure> i spy with my little eye.. a bad taste in shoes 10:45 < ThomasEgi> epic picture 10:46 < nmz787> The basic theme of this evolution would be the gradual de-entanglement. 10:46 < nmz787> The ancient world has survived in fairy tales. In this world remote mental 10:46 < nmz787> interactions like telepathy, remote healing, and witchcraft were every-day life. 10:46 < nmz787> Incredible-to-us physical feats like building of pyramids might have been made 10:46 < nmz787> possible by the liberation of energy and coherent momentum in the formation of 10:46 < nmz787> collective bound state entanglement. The rhytmic work songs helping to gener- 10:46 < nmz787> ate body synchrony are a remnant from this period, but are not sung in modern 10:46 < nmz787> IT companies. 10:47 < nmz787> hah, kanzure, we need a rhythmic work song 10:47 <@kanzure> sounds like quackery to me 10:48 < jrayhawk> i liked those composite-toe shoes 10:48 <@kanzure> also, nmz787 was kind enough to fetch that DNA stability paper 10:48 <@kanzure> http://diyhpl.us/~nmz787/instability%20and%20decay%20of%20the%20primary%20structure%20of%20DNA.pdf 10:50 < nmz787> Inhibition by various neurotransmitters could be seen as a measure for the degree of de-entanglement. Inhibition acts as the filter, which de-entangles the brain from other brains and the body from the bodies of other life forms. During hallucinatory experiences, generated by say drugs, inhibition "fails". The degree of inhibition indeed increases, as one climbs along evolutionary tree and in human brain most of the neural acti 10:50 < nmz787> (this paper mentioned the other paper i posted first, which talks about bio-entanglement on different abstract levels) 10:51 < nmz787> (i.e. cell to cell, cell of multicellular organism being able to regenerate another multicellular organism... gene to RNA to protein) 10:52 <@kanzure> "It is therefore as incredible as the report of bacterial growth at 250 degrees Celsius" neat 10:52 < nmz787> (though it was also implying that they were physically entangled via quantum mechanics as well as abstractly/ideologically entangled) 10:52 < Mariu> won't those HDDs screw those CRT monitors ? 10:52 <@kanzure> wait, i'm pretty sure we know of some bacteria that can grow at atleast 50C,right? 10:53 < nmz787> deep sea thermal vents 10:53 < nmz787> dunno what temp they are 10:53 <@kanzure> yeah.. but that's def. not 250C 10:53 <@kanzure> oh geeze.. 407C 10:53 < nmz787> wiki says thermophiles up to 122C 10:54 <@kanzure> maybe those thermal vent thermophiles were only recently discovered in the 90s 10:55 <@kanzure> nope.. "Hyperthermophiles were first discovered by Thomas D. Brock in 1969, in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming." 10:55 <@kanzure> "An extraordinary heat-tolerant hyperthermophile is the recently discovered Strain 121[2] which has been able to double its population during 24 hours in an autoclave at 121°C (hence its name); the current record growth temperature is 122°C, for Methanopyrus kandleri." 10:55 < jrayhawk> Mariu: not a whole lot; hard drive magnets are pretty small. far more annoying is poorly shielded monitors interfering with eachother with radiation. 10:55 <@kanzure> "However, it is thought unlikely that microbes could survive at temperatures above 150°C, as the cohesion of DNA and other vital molecules begins to break down at this point" 10:56 < Mariu> got it, jrayhawk 10:56 < nmz787> kanzure: 2. Baross J A , D e m i n g J W (1983) G r o w t h o f " b l a c k s m o k e r " b a c t e r i a a t t e m p e r a t u r e s o f a t l e a st 250"C. N a t u r e ( L o n d o n ) 3 0 3 : 4 2 3 - 4 2 6 10:57 < jrayhawk> In general, Sonys and Viewsonics are pretty good at shielding both in and out. 10:57 < nmz787> kanzure: Ba ros s JA, D e m i n g JW, Be cke r R R (1984) E v i d e n c e f o r m i c r o b i a l g r owt h in high-pr e s sur e , h i g h - t e m p e r a t u r e e n v i r o n m e n t s . In: K.tug M J , R e d d y C A (eds) C u r r e n t p e r s p e c t i v e s in m i c r o b i a l e cology. A m Soc Mi c r o b i o l , Wa s h i n g t o n , DC , pp 1 8 6 - 1 9 5 10:57 <@kanzure> ah i see 10:58 <@kanzure> jrayhawk: i never had trouble with my ancient viewsonics. 10:59 <@kanzure> bosslab should totally team up with "boston science club for girls" 10:59 < nmz787> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v303/n5916/abs/303423a0.html 11:00 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Read error: No route to host] 11:01 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:01 <@kanzure> nmz787: was it disproven? 11:03 < nmz787> http://diyhpl.us/~nmz787/growth%20of%20black%20smoker%20bacteria%20at%20temperatures%20of%20at%20least%20250%20celsius.pdf 11:03 <@kanzure> oh neat, we've cultured bacteria from a depth of 10,476 meters? go science.. 11:10 < jrayhawk> Degaussing poorly shielded monitors right next to eachother is fun, though. 11:11 < Mariu> :p 11:12 < nmz787> http://matpitka.blogspot.com/ 11:13 -!- Cat4D [433456da@gateway/web/freenode/ip.67.52.86.218] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:17 -!- Cat4D [433456da@gateway/web/freenode/ip.67.52.86.218] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 11:26 -!- klafka1 [~klafka@c-24-6-19-91.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:31 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 11:38 -!- strages_home [~strages@adsl-98-81-19-3.hsv.bellsouth.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 11:39 <@kanzure> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-invention-kit-for-everyone 11:40 <@kanzure> hrm. this feels like a media lab thing. 11:42 < klafka1> oh of course 11:43 -!- delinquentme [~asdfasdf@c-24-3-85-154.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:43 < delinquentme> hio all~ =] 11:49 -!- augur [~augur@206.196.185.153] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 11:50 < Mariu> hey =] 11:52 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:57 < nmz787> i guess this disproves all of those water memory and homeopathy papers http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7030/full/nature03383.html 12:14 < klafka1> homeopathy was disproven? holy crap 12:22 < nmz787> I just don't understand how people can uphold this stuff with words, rather than with physical proof 12:23 < nmz787> like all this was done ~10 years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory#Subsequent_research 12:23 < nmz787> and yet i'm finding homeopathy referenced in recent articles (which are pretty weird/farout articles in general) 12:24 < jrayhawk> homeopathy is a network of related observations and proposed mechanisms; a mechanistic study is not going to "disprove" the observational portions 12:29 < chris_99> huh 12:31 < chris_99> what observational portions 12:36 < jrayhawk> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=homeopathy+meta-analysis 12:37 < jrayhawk> though i don't know specifically what portions klafka1 was attempting to invoke with his rather uncharitable leap 12:37 < chris_99> i'm confused what you're trying to say jrayhawk, you don't think it can be disproved 12:37 < chris_99> ? 12:38 <@kanzure> "water memory"? 12:38 < chris_99> the idea that water remembers what chemicals it mixes with, utter BS 12:43 -!- brownies [u1042@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-bzjlpfmxuethwfhk] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 12:45 < jrayhawk> While I do find it highly unlikely that a body of evidence as large as homeopathy, even if it is the product of bias, will ever be "disproven", that belief doesn't seem particularly relevant to the conversation at hand...? 12:46 -!- ziyadb [u4806@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-oqdnintbmvjdymhj] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 12:47 < chris_99> i don't know what is the conversation at hand 12:47 < chris_99> i've just joined 12:47 < jrayhawk> Nah, you caught everything. 12:48 <@kanzure> 'disasterbationists' 12:49 -!- mensch [~mensch@c-67-189-240-148.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:49 <@kanzure> hi mensch 12:49 < mensch> Hi 12:49 <@kanzure> mensch: are you from bosslab? 12:50 < mensch> No 12:50 < mensch> But I am in the Boston area... 12:50 <@kanzure> ah. might be worth checking out bosslab.org then 12:50 < mensch> Yes, I think so, thanks for the link haha 12:51 <@kanzure> oh god they updated their site. it used to be better. 12:51 <@kanzure> now it's some tumblr crap 12:51 < mensch> Yeah, it looks pretty preppy 12:52 <@kanzure> i swear just a week ago it was legit :( 12:53 <@kanzure> mensch: http://web.archive.org/web/20110621191534/http://bosslab.org/ 12:53 < mensch> Oh, wow, that looked pretty decent. 12:54 <@kanzure> yeah.. who the hell decided to go with tumblr instead of that? 12:54 -!- _0bitcount [~ulises11@81.61.209.167.dyn.user.ono.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 12:57 -!- brownies [u1042@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-hwrcgynudgffagiw] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:59 -!- ziyadb [u4806@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-hsdwhdhugljjlglj] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:03 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:03 < docl> http://lesswrong.com/lw/8f4/neil_degrasse_tyson_on_cryonics/6l8r 13:05 <@kanzure> please describe your links when they have awful urls 13:05 < docl> me doing a data dump on the cryoprotectant toxicity issue. 13:05 <@kanzure> pookie isn't smart enough to figure out when and when not to do that :( 13:05 <@kanzure> i see 13:05 <@kanzure> docl: how experienced are you with vitrification? i mean, have you done tissue samples? 13:05 < docl> not personally. this is all second-hand. 13:06 < docl> I know chana de wolf personally, she does it pretty often. I've watched her perfuse rats. 13:06 <@kanzure> i met aschwin's brother-in-law at a bus stop in austin, texas once 13:06 <@kanzure> it was pretty awkward 13:07 < docl> heh, her family's fundamentalist from her descriptions. 13:07 < docl> oh wait, you said aschwin 13:07 <@kanzure> yes, her husband's brother-in-law (i forget the exact relation) 13:07 < docl> chana's brother then? 13:08 <@kanzure> that's one possibility 13:08 < docl> austin texas, sounds like it. 13:08 < docl> heh, what was he like? 13:09 <@kanzure> gangly, sorta proud that he had something topical to suggest 13:09 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 13:10 < docl> how did you find out he was aschwin's brother in law? 13:11 <@kanzure> at the time, fenn was living with me and we would ride buses to places and be talking about random transhumanist projects 13:12 < delinquentme> actually thats a good point ... Im assuming that no one has cryoed a mouse and brought it back 13:12 < docl> kanzure: so you had a high enough profile, and he was all 'hey my brother-in-law is a transhumanist'? 13:12 <@kanzure> delinquentme: there are various tissue/ice problems, some of which have been resolved by proper temperatuer curves 13:13 < delinquentme> is this in the vitrification process or the thawing? 13:13 <@kanzure> docl: something like that, he said, "oh, hey, i think my inlaw/brother does that ... yeah, aschwin de wolf" 13:13 <@kanzure> in san francisco i would expect something like that, but not in austin 13:15 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:16 < docl> delinquentme: both. if you vitrify (using high concentrations of CPA) that postpones the damage in a sense, as the worst of it (I believe) happens during the thawing phase. 13:18 < docl> basically the cryoprotectants are toxic, but that only matters if the tissue is warm and exposed to them for a long enough time. 13:18 < docl> also it matters if the concentration is high. lower concentration means more time is safe. 13:19 < docl> ice-blockers such as antifreeze proteins or certain polymers can prevent freezing with lower concentrations of cryoprotectant 13:19 < docl> the trouble is these do not penetrate the cells well 13:20 < docl> you might be able to work around by making the cell produce an antifreeze protein or perhaps a sugar like trehalose 13:20 < docl> Tardigrades can survive LN2 immersion because they produce trehalose inside their cells. 13:21 < docl> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade 13:22 < chris_99> isn't glycerol one of the chemicals they use in cryogenics 13:22 <@kanzure> Juul: did you get around to doing the antifreeze protein project? 13:25 < klafka1> hey are parameters coming into classes in python pass by value or reference? 13:25 <@kanzure> klafka1: reference 13:25 <@kanzure> klafka1: from copy import copy, deepcopy 13:30 < klafka1> gotchya 13:30 < klafka1> hey also if you have a variable without a self inside a class method, that's just a variable scoped to the method right? 13:30 < klafka1> but if you have self. it's a class instance variable right? 13:31 <@kanzure> correct 13:32 < klafka1> ok cool 13:33 < chris_99> are there any "must read" books on transhumanism 13:33 <@kanzure> chris_99: no, they are all terrible 13:33 <@kanzure> in fact, you should *not* read them 13:33 < chris_99> heh 13:34 < klafka1> HAHAH 13:35 <@kanzure> even that one 'diy biohacking' book is questionable 13:36 < chris_99> which one? 13:36 <@kanzure> http://www.amazon.com/Biopunk-Scientists-Hack-Software-Life/dp/1617230022 13:36 <@kanzure> oops i mean 13:36 <@kanzure> http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/diybio/biopunk.pdf 13:36 < chris_99> ive read that 13:37 <@kanzure> 'the singularity is near' is the standard staple book that everyone recommends, but it's not particularly useful 13:37 < chris_99> i've read most of that too 13:37 <@kanzure> 'biology is technology' is the one that people recommend if they enjoy rob carlson 13:38 <@kanzure> but you can probably just get the same content out of his blog 13:38 < docl> chris_99: yes, glycerol is one of the cryoprotectants they use 13:39 < docl> terminology nitpick: cryonics (or cryobiology), not cryogenics 13:39 <@kanzure> terminology nitpick accepted 13:39 < chris_99> aha. i find it difficult to imagine that the glycerol or whatever 13:39 < chris_99> could permeate the entire brain 13:39 < docl> the circulatory system is used. 13:40 < docl> the brain is fairly well vascularized, as organs go 13:40 < docl> but it does take time to permeate. especially if you want to prevent osmotic shock. 13:40 < chris_99> hmm, but each cell needs to absorb it right? 13:40 < docl> yes. but these are small molecules that penetrate very well. 13:41 < docl> DMSO, glycerol, ethyline glycol 13:41 < chris_99> has there been any sucessful cases of cryobiology with mammals 13:41 <@kanzure> there has been some tissue experiments, and an old cat/rabbit brain 13:42 < docl> with tissue samples, sure... not whole mammals, not at cryonics temperatures at least. 13:42 < chris_99> aha 13:42 < docl> mammals have been brought to below zero centigrade and brought back though. 13:43 < docl> part of the problem is getting the cryoprotectant out again without giving it time to have toxic effects on cells. that is a part that might go away with advanced nanotech (along with certain others). 13:44 < chris_99> oh i didn't realise you had to extract it again 13:44 < chris_99> is glycerol toxic? 13:44 < docl> yeah, they all are in the concentrations needed to prevent ice formation. 13:45 < docl> however they interfere with each other's toxicity to some extent, so mixtures are better than any one of them 13:45 < chris_99> interesting 13:46 < docl> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryoprotectant 13:53 -!- jmil [~jmil@2607:f470:8:3148:a939:3abe:a05d:7ca4] has quit [Quit: jmil] 13:57 < nmz787> I started the conversation on homeopathy through crazy fringe/pseudo/too-complex-to-be-proven papers I stumbled across 13:57 < Mokbortolan_> I use a homeopathic remedy to successfully treat the symptoms of pompholyx 13:58 < Mokbortolan_> do I doubt the "science"? Yes. Do I care now it works? No. 13:58 < Mokbortolan_> it's probably placebo, but I don't care, it works 13:58 < Mokbortolan_> and is cheap 14:00 < Mokbortolan_> Would I trust the health of a seriously ill child to homeopathy? no 14:01 < docl> trouble with placebo is there's hardly any room for improvement... I mean, what are you gonna do, make it more convincing? 14:09 -!- strages_home [~strages@adsl-98-81-19-3.hsv.bellsouth.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:10 -!- eudoxia [~eudoxia@r190-135-13-88.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:14 < docl> I'm trying to think where the low-hanging fruit is for cryo research... maybe cultured neurons could be induced to produce trehalose or antifreeze proteins, thereby reducing cryoprotectant requirements. 14:16 < Mokbortolan_> docl: yeah, but that doesn't mean you can't use them 14:17 < nmz787> why not Mokbortolan_? 14:21 < Mokbortolan_> what? 14:22 < Mokbortolan_> why not what? 14:22 < Mokbortolan_> why doesn't that mean you can't use them? Why does (not) that mean that you can (not) use them... why does that mean you can use them.... because they work in some cases? 14:29 < nmz787> why cant you use them? 14:29 <@kanzure> docl: antifreeze proteins would be worth studying, yes 14:29 <@kanzure> docl: some of the equipment could be simplified 14:29 < delinquentme> docl, is there use for frozen body parts? 14:30 -!- nmz787_ [~androirc@72-59-182-23.pools.spcsdns.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:30 < delinquentme> certainly hearts but I dont think you've got that working yet 14:30 < delinquentme> sooo what about arterial valves? 14:30 < delinquentme> maybe those dont decompose 14:30 -!- nmz787 [~Nathan@cpe-67-242-177-23.rochester.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 14:30 < delinquentme> so something more complex ... umm eyes? 14:30 <@kanzure> delinquentme: um.. what are you talking about? 14:30 < delinquentme> correct me if im wrong but thats just a sweet spot issue 14:30 < docl> kidneys maybe 14:30 < delinquentme> kanzure, what to cryo thats 'low hanging fruit' 14:31 <@kanzure> delinquentme: organs aren't low-hanging fruit 14:31 < delinquentme> docl, i think kidneys are pretty complex no? 14:31 < delinquentme> *nods* 14:31 <@kanzure> "is there a use for frozen body parts?" what kinda question is that 14:31 < delinquentme> kanzure, you talk too much 14:31 <@kanzure> like, are you asking if anyone has done it before? 14:31 < docl> delinquentme: I'm trying to think of what experiments can be done on a shoestring to improve the state of the art 14:31 <@kanzure> docl: antifreeze protein stuff can be done for <$10k 14:31 < delinquentme> docl, well plant cells are cheap as hell 14:32 -!- splicer [~ubuntu@c83-255-190-140.bredband.comhem.se] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 14:32 < delinquentme> and kanzure it was meant as rhetorical 14:32 <@kanzure> no it wasn't 14:33 < delinquentme> kanzure, now you're being retarded 14:33 < delinquentme> i said it. how would I not have the authority to say whether its rhetorical or not? 14:33 <@kanzure> "is there use for frozen body parts?" how is that rhetorical 14:33 < delinquentme> because it obviously leads to the conclusion of YES 14:33 < delinquentme> there is 14:33 < docl> well, neurons are the most important-to-cryonics. 14:33 <@kanzure> why the hell ask it then? 14:33 < delinquentme> *stupidity abounds today* 14:34 < delinquentme> kanzure, why does anyone ask a rhetorical question? 14:34 -!- delinquentme was kicked from ##hplusroadmap by kanzure [delinquentme] 14:34 * kanzure feels better 14:34 -!- delinquentme [~asdfasdf@c-24-3-85-154.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:34 < docl> :) 14:34 < delinquentme> nice 14:34 < delinquentme> kanzure, listen man is that how you're going to run the channel 14:34 < delinquentme> not funny not cute 14:34 < delinquentme> not a joke 14:34 < delinquentme> dont be a prick 14:35 <@kanzure> i will be as big of a prick as i want to be 14:35 < delinquentme> dont be 14:35 < delinquentme> because acting smart gets you nowhere 14:35 <@kanzure> look, do you have any relevant cryonics experience or are you just talking out of your ass 14:35 < delinquentme> esp when you're just trying to fucking nitpick 14:35 < delinquentme> kanzure, i was talking to docl on what the low hanging fruits are 14:35 < delinquentme> now if you had read the thread you'd have known that 14:35 <@kanzure> organs aren't low-hanging fruit 14:36 < delinquentme> instead you just want to fire off shit 14:36 < delinquentme> again 14:36 < delinquentme> rhetorical question 14:36 < docl> yeah organs aren't low-hanging fruit. they are a possible down-the-line product. 14:36 < delinquentme> docl, so yeah the question is just which of these things are sufficiently simple 14:37 < delinquentme> that you can apply it 14:37 <@kanzure> delinquentme: you are banned from asking rhetorical questions for the time being, i might reconsider later 14:37 < delinquentme> so like noses you can freeze and have good luck .. but IDK if there is a market for noses 14:37 <@kanzure> (you might find it an interesting challenge even) 14:37 < delinquentme> kanzure, fuck you 14:37 <@kanzure> docl: whatdduya think about ken hayworth's brainpreservationprize stuff 14:37 <@kanzure> i haven't heard from him in a while 14:38 <@kanzure> oops i mean his http://brainpreservation.org/ stuff 14:38 <@kanzure> the la biohacking group was doing some neural tissue cultures, but they don't have any cryoprotectant results yet 14:38 < docl> hmm... I am not so sure about the connectome hypothesis. talking to kalla724 on lesswrong makes me think there are solvents you'd be losing that might encode important info 14:39 <@kanzure> what do you consider to be the connectome hypothesis? that things are connected? 14:39 < docl> so you would probably need cryo, not chemical fixation. 14:39 < docl> yeah 14:39 < eudoxia> that the connectome is all that one has to preserve for cryonics to succeed? 14:39 < docl> well, that the connections are the main thing 14:39 <@kanzure> i think it's pretty well proven that neurons are connected and that synpases are real 14:39 <@kanzure> ah 14:40 <@kanzure> docl: are you familiar with 3scan.com? 14:40 < docl> no 14:40 <@kanzure> they are doing destructive scanning of microtome slices 14:40 < docl> interesting 14:40 <@kanzure> well, they are also making microtome slices and catching the connectivity as they cut 14:40 <@kanzure> then they do image analysis to reconstruct the individual neurons 14:41 <@kanzure> docl: i was talking with them recently, and they might be using http://github.com/kanzure/netmorph soon to generate sample slices 14:41 <@kanzure> and then run it through their image processing code 14:42 <@kanzure> to confirm that they can extract the exact networks 14:43 <@kanzure> docl: does kalla724 have a specific list of things that he'd want to keep? "solvents" is p. vague, any cell will have some ph balance from random crap floating around 14:44 < docl> haven't seen anything specific yet :( 14:45 < docl> http://lesswrong.com/lw/8f4/neil_degrasse_tyson_on_cryonics/6l0k 14:45 < docl> In general, uploading a C. elegans, i.e. creating an abstract artificial worm? Entirely doable. Will probably be done in not-too-distant future. 14:45 < docl> Uploading a particular C. elegans, so that the simulation reflects learning and experiences of that particular animal? Orders of magnitude more difficult. Might be possible, if we have really good technology and are looking at the living animal. 14:45 < docl> Uploading a frozen C. elegans, using current technology? Again, you might be able to create an abstract worm, with all the instinctive behaviors, and maybe a few particularly strong learned ones. But any fine detail is irretrievably lost. You lose the specific "personality" of the specific worm you are trying to upload. 14:46 <@kanzure> someone has already done a c. elegans upload project 14:46 <@kanzure> very disappointing that nobody remembers it 14:46 < docl> I get the idea we're in deeply hypothetical realms here still 14:46 < eudoxia> wasn't the nematode upload done in 1997 14:46 <@kanzure> eudoxia: ancient news by now :( 14:46 < eudoxia> maybe it was a species-generic thing but I suppose it counts 14:47 <@kanzure> eudoxia: to be fair, it wasn't a microdialysis upload, maybe that's why people choose not to remember it 14:48 <@kanzure> eudoxia: also, that was before NEURON existed (i think?), so maybe they still have the data and would be willing to release it 14:48 <@kanzure> actually, why the hell don't i have a backup of all their data 14:48 < eudoxia> I backed up the electron micrographs but haven't found a connectivity map or whatever it's called 14:49 <@kanzure> docl: "A collaboration led by Eugene Leitl. Its aim is to achieve the 3D reconstruction and functional emulation of individual specimens of C.elegans from scanned images of the vitrified original."i 14:49 <@kanzure> http://web.archive.org/web/20070814044636/minduploading.org/research/data.nematodeupload.html 14:49 <@kanzure> eudoxia: you have all of those? 14:50 < eudoxia> except the ones that are corrupt: PAG726L, 746, 745, 755, 760, 766 and 767 14:50 < docl> cool, Eugene Leitl is on cryonet 14:52 <@kanzure> docl: he's also in here occassionally ;) he runs 'transhumantech', a mailing list he spams with somewhat-better-than-terrible transhumanist news clippings 14:52 <@kanzure> eudoxia: can you email me explaining the situation? i want to loop in a few people who can help 14:52 <@kanzure> eudoxia: i mean, with respect to the integrity of the files 14:53 <@kanzure> also, do you have a web host that can store those files? or would you like a hosting account from me to place that data temporarily? 14:53 < eudoxia> I have most of my dropbox free, and these are ~820 MB, I can upload them 14:54 <@kanzure> ok lemme know the link when it's done, and we can loop in eugen leitl and the others 14:54 < eudoxia> as for the integrity, I'm not sure: Image viewers tell me they can't recognize the format 14:54 <@kanzure> probably eugen/3scan/randal/some other people we can blame 14:54 <@kanzure> oh, i'll check them then.. 14:55 < eudoxia> I guess it could be just corrupt header data 14:56 -!- yashgaroth [~f@cpe-66-27-117-179.san.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:56 <@kanzure> are your files from internet archive? if so i can probably grab those real quick 14:56 < eudoxia> yeah 14:56 <@kanzure> yashgaroth: vitrification! 14:56 < yashgaroth> oh boy 14:57 <@kanzure> "2012-05-14 14:57:46 ERROR 502: Bad Gateway." 14:58 <@kanzure> first one that works is PAG722L.png :( 14:58 < eudoxia> the whole ABC group is gone 14:58 < eudoxia> what do ABC and PAG mean? 14:59 <@kanzure> 13.9 MB/sec 15:01 <@kanzure> ok i got it 15:02 <@kanzure> http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/nematodeuploadproject 15:05 -!- splicer [~ubuntu@c83-255-190-140.bredband.comhem.se] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:06 < eudoxia> i thought about writing a neurite tracer with that data but then I remembered I don't know wha parts of the images are what :) 15:09 <@kanzure> the reason the internet archive doesn't have A.jpg is because it's 1nm/pixel 15:12 < chevbird> any biochem nuts in here? 15:13 < Mokbortolan_> hah 15:13 < Mokbortolan_> probably better to ask who isn't... 15:13 < Mokbortolan_> smaller list 15:13 < yashgaroth> what sort of biochem 15:14 < chevbird> transposase 15:14 < chevbird> specifically how it dissociates after done cleaving 15:14 < yashgaroth> oh good, I thought you meant like krebs cycle biochem 15:14 < Mokbortolan_> probably just a text saying "I'll call you.." 15:14 < docl> wow, eugen just burst my bubble on whether things can be nanorepaired in a vacuum 15:14 < docl> http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu:7131/bionet/mm/neur-sci/1996-August/025042.html 15:15 < docl> Vitrified 15:15 < docl> tissue does not take vacuum too well (sublimates), but nanocritters need 15:15 < docl> very hard vacuum to operate. 15:15 < eudoxia> well technically 15:15 * docl was hoping vitrified tissue is fine in a vacuum 15:15 < eudoxia> mechanosynthesis needs UHV, machines made out of mechanosynthesized diamond could work outside of UHV 15:15 < docl> point 15:15 < yashgaroth> well I'd imagine it depends on the specific transposase, but generally the final site wouldn't be recognized by the enzyme and it'd just fall off 15:16 <@kanzure> machines could have internal UHV chambers, and probably for much less energy than a giant UHV chamber 15:16 <@kanzure> docl: for mechanosynthesis.. http://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer#readme 15:17 < chevbird> yashgaroth: tn5 and others, but in vitro ive been seeing that its pretty hard to "knock off" of the dna 15:17 < docl> so maybe the vitrified tissue could be kept out of UHV whereas the parts of the micron-range nanoagents are kept under UHV? 15:17 < yashgaroth> even if you heat it or add a detergent or something? 15:18 < chevbird> and i cant find much info in the patent 15:18 < yashgaroth> you don't need to know how it works to patent it :/ 15:19 < chevbird> well, heating is a no go, right? cause there's an overhang that gets left between the mozaic end and your dna 15:19 < chevbird> so you dont want to play too close to t50 15:19 < chevbird> the detergent, maybe 15:19 < yashgaroth> or high salt or something 15:19 < yashgaroth> then again a lot of that will lower the Tm anyway 15:20 < chevbird> the salt may or may not work (i suspect it does but nothing for sure yet) 15:20 < chevbird> im more interested in the why 15:20 < chevbird> rather than guessing 15:20 < chevbird> and i cant find much material 15:20 < yashgaroth> hmm well let me take a look around 15:21 < chevbird> and very true. im almost sure the patent was filed because "oh shit this might be useful if someone understands it" 15:21 < yashgaroth> generally one expects transposases to be slow by default 15:21 < chevbird> sure 15:21 < yashgaroth> heh most gene patents are just "haha I sequenced it screw you give me money for the next 20+ years" 15:23 < docl> eudoxia: I wonder how high of a probability I should be giving to diamond mechanosynthesis not needing UHV. 15:23 < eudoxia> docl: it could work on noble gases (herp derp) and for some reason I seem to remember someone saying it could work on water 15:25 < chevbird> im really trying to avoid reading a paper (laziness), but i think its unavoidable 15:25 < yashgaroth> hell it might just sit there until a polymerase knocks it off 15:26 < chevbird> perhaps 15:26 < chevbird> i know it's not Pol I though 15:26 < chevbird> cause ive tried that 15:29 < yashgaroth> wait do you mean cleavage as in when it excises the transposon, or after insertion into a target strand? 15:30 < chevbird> so youve got some dsDNA and your Tnp, it goes in, associates, cleaves and then just sits there 15:31 < yashgaroth> maybe it's looking for a suitable integration site 15:32 < chevbird> the active site is pretty unspecific if thats what youre getting at 15:33 < yashgaroth> ah okay then...you could also try gel separation, and why does it matter too much if the strands melt? they should figure out how to reassociate 15:34 < nmz787_> Chevbird is this something you're doing? 15:34 < chevbird> well i'm looking to preserve unique molecules and i'm not sure i want to introduce more error than i can get away wirh 15:35 < chevbird> by pol or otherwise 15:35 < yashgaroth> you're afraid it'll start polymerizing if you melt the strands? 15:36 < chevbird> im going to have to pol and phosporylate later anyway to fill in the gaps, so id rather just fill in the small nicks then go the entire stretch of the molecule 15:38 < chevbird> im not afraid of it happening right then, but if things become mostly ssdna then i'm not looking too good for downstream applications 15:38 < nmz787_> What are you asking? It will dissociate because of a confrontational change 15:38 < yashgaroth> anything below a few thousand basepairs should re-anneal no problem 15:39 < nmz787_> Or after a enzyme-substrate intermediate bond is cleaved 15:40 < chevbird> nmz787_ thats not what i've been seeing. mind you this is not wildtype tnp 15:40 < chevbird> yashgaroth yea i'm going to be about 10kb 15:41 < yashgaroth> that should anneal fine, unless you've got a bunch of gDNA sitting around in the reaction 15:41 < nmz787_> I'm just not sure what your question is. 15:42 < chevbird> yash: hopefully not but not sure. would be interesting to qc and find out 15:42 < yashgaroth> maybe try adding EDTA? though I don't know if the metal ions are relevant to the DNA binding per se or just the cleavage 15:42 <@kanzure> nmz787_: started with how transposase dissociates from dna 15:45 < nmz787_> Right but thats all i saw about it 15:46 < nmz787_> Chevbird didnt say they were doing experiments, just studying.... what the goal is 15:47 < chevbird> here's the idea http://www.google.com/patents/US20100120098?printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false 15:48 < chevbird> if you look at figure 2 it magically dissociates with a black arrow 15:48 < chevbird> im all out of black arrows 15:48 < chevbird> so idk 15:48 -!- Mariu [Jimmy98@89.41.57.33] has quit [Quit: leaving] 15:48 < yashgaroth> Transposome™ pfft 15:48 < chevbird> haha 15:50 < chevbird> i do like the edta idea 15:53 < nmz787_> Hows this better than sonication then adapter ligation? 15:53 < chevbird> time 15:53 < nmz787_> Or using a covaris g-tube 15:53 < chevbird> time 15:54 < chevbird> not really a gtube fan 15:55 < yashgaroth> so the downstream application is sequencing? 15:55 < chevbird> but "better" depends on who you are and how many samples you're running, how good you analysis is blah blah blah 15:56 < chevbird> http://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/transposase-library-prep-method-promises-easy-automation-less-dna-input 15:56 < nmz787_> Does it mention a restriction site in the transposon? It could be a re fused to the trabsposase 15:57 < chevbird> i dont believe so 15:57 < chevbird> by restriction site you meannnnnnn a non-random target? 15:58 < nmz787_> Yeah, if the removed peripheralbindin domains and fused it to the transpoaase to localize it binding domain 15:58 < nmz787_> Shit 15:58 < nmz787_> Thats outta order 15:59 <@kanzure> i think nmz787_ is on a mobile phone 15:59 < chevbird> im thinking rotary phone 15:59 < nmz787_> If they removed the REs peripheral binding domain(s), relyin on transposase for localization to RE site 16:02 < chevbird> looking for an animation, found this instead. win http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv74Ks1Nhlo&feature=player_embedded 16:16 < chevbird> anyway, thanks for the chat, i find it interesting 16:21 < yashgaroth> it's an intriguing problem...also maybe a pH change, but high salt is probably your best bet 16:28 < chevbird> shifting gears... 16:29 < chevbird> im planning on joining up with the bosslab guys this weekend to help out 16:29 < chevbird> should be interesting 16:29 < chevbird> dare i say. fun 16:30 <@kanzure> mensch: you should go with him 16:32 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 16:33 -!- eudoxia [~eudoxia@r190-135-13-88.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 16:35 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:37 < nmz787_> Chevbird fig 2 looks like the transposon got cleaved, doest look like insertion 16:37 < nmz787_> Looks like fig 1 is the insertion diagram 16:37 < chevbird> it does stay on 16:38 < chevbird> i guess you have to trust me on that 16:38 < chevbird> haha 16:38 < nmz787_> Stay on? 16:38 < nmz787_> Transposon is DNA right? 16:38 < nmz787_> Transposase is the enzyme 16:38 < chevbird> the "transposome" stays on 16:38 < nmz787_> ?? 16:38 < chevbird> the complex 16:38 < chevbird> yea 16:39 < nmz787_> So fig 1 is insertion of transposon by transposone? 16:39 < chevbird> correct 16:39 < nmz787_> then magically non-classical transpoaon behaviour happens? 16:39 < chevbird> and 2 is no insertion, just putting on mozaic ends 16:39 < nmz787_> Mozaic ends? 16:39 < nmz787_> Dunno what they are 16:40 < chevbird> well the repeat sequences. different people say different things 16:40 < nmz787_> I tjought transposons were just cut-paste genes with flanking adapters on the end to facilitate the cut anf paste 16:41 < chevbird> yes 16:41 < chevbird> and this is a modified one 16:42 < chevbird> where the adapter is a modified sequence 16:42 < chevbird> basically, so you can throw tags on it later 16:42 < nmz787_> Not classical transposase behavior cracked 16:42 < nmz787_> Korekt 16:43 < nmz787_> Android voice recognition fail 16:43 < chevbird> so you're just talking to me 16:44 < chevbird> i assume on a bus or train or somewhere where people are staring at you 16:44 < nmz787_> Driving alone in car 16:45 < chevbird> what app is this? i think i may need it 16:45 <@kanzure> hahaah ##hplusroadmap Learing how to use irc with ever decreasing amounts of responsibility 16:46 <@kanzure> s/Learing/Learning 16:46 < chevbird> indeed 16:51 < nmz787_> Androirc from google play store 16:57 -!- nmz787_ [~androirc@72-59-182-23.pools.spcsdns.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 16:57 < chevbird> looks like he's home 17:01 <@kanzure> ping timeout just means he's out of signal range 17:02 < chevbird> drats 17:08 -!- nmz787 [~Nathan@cpe-67-242-177-23.rochester.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:13 < docl> oh, looks like they selected a project for the longecity cryoprotectant fundraiser 17:13 < docl> http://www.longecity.org/forum/page/index.html/_/science/projects/cryopreservation-fundraiser-r36 17:15 < docl> they will be focusing on endothelial cells to see what neutralizes CPA toxicity 17:16 < docl> a good idea since endothelial cells are part of the perfusion impairment problem and apparently inexpensive. 17:21 -!- chris_99 [~chris@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 17:24 < delinquentme> perfusion impairment problem? 17:25 < delinquentme> docl, 17:25 < delinquentme> ^ 17:25 < yashgaroth> I'm guessing they mean that since all the cryopreservants have to pass through the endothelial to reach all the other cells 17:27 < yashgaroth> heh "Graduate student (six months): $6,000" 17:29 <@kanzure> aww yeah minimum wage 17:29 <@kanzure> well, below minimum wage 17:32 < delinquentme> Quora gets $50 mil from Thiel 17:32 < delinquentme> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303505504577404510443769988.html?mod=wsj_nview_latest 17:32 < yashgaroth> grad students would kill to make minimum wage 17:32 < delinquentme> valued at $400 million =] 17:32 < delinquentme> yashgaroth, thats why that system needs banged up 17:33 < delinquentme> you know why they make such shit cash? because their PIs and tenure 17:33 < yashgaroth> and because there's hordes of bio grad students 17:33 < delinquentme> and the whole idea that you're guaranteed one of these positions if you're a student 17:33 < docl> just found a podcast about the de wolfs research as well: http://www.longecity.org/media/LongeCityPodcast_DeWolf2012_A01.mp3 17:33 < delinquentme> yarp 17:34 < docl> yashgaroth: yeah. perfusion impairment is pretty bad in real world scenarios. especially if there's any kind of delay. 17:36 -!- chevbird [~chevbird@209-6-62-26.c3-0.sbo-ubr1.sbo.ma.cable.rcn.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 18:26 <@kanzure> https://upverter.com/tkousar/356d3c3c43d1739c/Stepper-Motor-Driver/ 18:26 <@kanzure> https://upverter.com/tkousar/0000000000006070/A-DIY-breathalyzer/ 18:26 <@kanzure> man their urls suck 18:27 <@kanzure> https://upverter.com/tkousar/0000000000006067/A-device-that-detects-magnetic-fields-and-poles-and-makes-a-different-sounds-depending-on-the-magnetic-field/ 18:27 <@kanzure> https://upverter.com/tkousar/3e6527eacd1c1e69/Digital-Oscilloscope/ 18:32 -!- Thorbinator is now known as Insert_Name_Here 18:33 <@kanzure> hrmm.. http://resources.upverter.com/how-to-add-a-github-repository-to-your-projec 18:50 -!- chillyvanilly [~chillyvan@207.178.197.130] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 19:12 <@kanzure> yashgaroth: you might appreciate this.. "short list of what's actually required" http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/174 19:12 <@kanzure> however, i think much of that could be compressed into a bootcamp 19:13 <@kanzure> like "0.5 semesters of engineering design — usually done as “introduction to engineering” classes at theoretical universities these days" is really just 5 hours of how to draw isometric boxes and produce standard engineering documents 19:13 < yashgaroth> haha math is listed 19:14 < yashgaroth> "significant work can be outsourced" doesn't seem to jive with the DIY approach 19:14 -!- _Sketch_ [~Sketch@71-91-221-175.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 19:14 -!- _Sketch_ [~Sketch@71-91-221-175.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:15 < yashgaroth> two semesters of general bio and one of micro seems a little...small, esp. without biochem 19:16 < yashgaroth> 99% of ochem and physics is also worthless 19:19 < Burninate> kanzure: Drafting was combined with parametric 3D CAD and a model-building course at my CC 19:19 < yashgaroth> oh well at least they can show it to the vast majority of people on the DIYbio list who have no fucking clue what they're doing 19:25 <@kanzure> Burninate: i've been doing some coding on parametric CAD if you want to talk about that sometime 19:26 <@kanzure> also, it's hilarious to see mac in the comments trying to recruit jonathan cline to the diybio group: http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/52/comment-page-1#comment-8 19:26 <@kanzure> (jonathan cline was already a core diybio member) 19:26 < Burninate> nah, it was years ago, with Pro/E 19:26 < Burninate> what project have you been coding for 19:26 <@kanzure> lolcad. http://diyhpl.us/cgit/lolcad 19:26 <@kanzure> also nanoengineer: http://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer#readme 19:27 < yashgaroth> hey mac is too busy doing...whatever it is he does, to know things like whether jcline is in diybio 19:28 <@kanzure> mac was doing uh.. cofactor bio, then snp-party, then genelaser, then 19:28 <@kanzure> well, now he's on to something else 19:29 < yashgaroth> uh huh 19:30 <@kanzure> seems to be doing this http://diybioftw.com/ 19:30 < nmz787> yashgaroth: i think ochem was damn useful 19:30 < yashgaroth> I naturally despite anyone who's said "FTW" in the past 10 years 19:30 < yashgaroth> despise* 19:30 <@kanzure> wtf.. http://diybioftw.com/post/19671614110/structured-protocols 19:30 <@kanzure> why didn't he share that with the diybio group? 19:30 < yashgaroth> it sort of was, but then again I'm not planning to do any chemical synthesis 19:31 <@kanzure> so instead of emailing that link out, it takes me three months to somehow end up at his random blog to see his reply? 19:32 < nmz787> thats not very recent either 19:32 < yashgaroth> I will admit ochem lab was a lot of fun 19:34 -!- chevbird [~chevbird@209-6-62-26.c3-0.sbo-ubr1.sbo.ma.cable.rcn.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:36 -!- chevbird [~chevbird@209-6-62-26.c3-0.sbo-ubr1.sbo.ma.cable.rcn.com] has quit [Client Quit] 19:55 < klafka1> ochem lab was a lot of fun 20:02 -!- klafka [~klafka@c-24-6-19-91.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:05 -!- klafka1 [~klafka@c-24-6-19-91.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 20:11 -!- delinquentme [~asdfasdf@c-24-3-85-154.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 20:21 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 20:23 -!- joshcryer [~g@unaffiliated/joshcryer] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:27 <@kanzure> http://code.google.com/p/openworm/wiki/CElegansNeuroML 20:27 <@kanzure> "Even the C. elegans connectome is missing a complete account of its ion channels, something that some groups are trying to address" 20:27 <@kanzure> nice.. models of single neurons: http://senselab.med.yale.edu/modeldb/ModelList.asp?id=3537 20:28 <@kanzure> that's a pretty long list 20:29 < klafka> did you see the back and forth on the connectome in that one video? 20:33 -!- Insert_Name_Here is now known as Thorbinator 20:37 <@kanzure> klafka: no? 20:42 -!- n_bentha [~lolicon@75.111.75.178] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:45 < nmz787> kanzure: chandni is having a 2nd interview w/SF company 20:46 <@kanzure> neat 20:46 < nmz787> so if you signed a lease, does moving out there make synthesis work easier? 20:47 <@kanzure> not really, it makes it slightly more annoying to move out of austin 21:09 -!- Cat4D [4335d082@gateway/web/freenode/ip.67.53.208.130] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:43 -!- nate_ [~nate@c-76-115-136-13.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:49 <@kanzure> hi nate_ 21:56 -!- n_bentha [~lolicon@75.111.75.178] has left ##hplusroadmap [] 22:00 < Cat4D> i need a 200kw gunn diode transistor or heterooptical driver 22:01 < Cat4D> an associated rectifier, and info on how to buffer/store the DC for pulse modulation 22:04 -!- _0bitcount [~ulises11@81.61.209.167.dyn.user.ono.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:14 -!- Cat4D [4335d082@gateway/web/freenode/ip.67.53.208.130] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 22:16 -!- lichen|2 [~lichen@c-76-105-164-184.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:16 <@kanzure> yashgaroth: ugh http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-scientists-successfully-gene-therapy-aging-associated.html 22:16 <@kanzure> "virally delivered telomerase extends lifespan of 1-year old mice by 24%" 22:17 < lichen|2> does it say how much increase of cancer risk that induced? 22:17 < yashgaroth> lolol "This might be the only practical solution for an anti-ageing therapy" 22:19 <@kanzure> i wonder what mouse line they were using 22:19 -!- lichen [~lichen@c-76-105-164-184.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 22:19 -!- lichen|2 is now known as lichen 22:20 * yashgaroth tries to find the article 22:21 < yashgaroth> ehh doesn't matter what mouse strain they use, they're all just as inbred 22:24 -!- _0bitcount [~ulises11@81.61.209.167.dyn.user.ono.com] has left ##hplusroadmap ["Leaving"] 22:28 < yashgaroth> well they didn't waste any time before patenting it 22:31 < yashgaroth> I don't think they'd be able to measure an increased risk of cancer, since mice don't get it as often as humans and telomerase might not even be a limiting factor for it 22:32 < yashgaroth> also I hate reading patents but using GFP as the control seems biased since GFP is toxic 22:53 -!- jennicide [jen@173-18-211-34.client.mchsi.com] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 22:53 -!- jennicide [jen@173-18-211-34.client.mchsi.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:58 -!- sylph_mako [~mako@118-93-18-64.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:00 < nmz787> kanzure: know this guy? http://www.matzkefamily.net/doug/papers/quantum/Mensa2008BiologicalQuantum.pdf 23:01 -!- splicer [~ubuntu@c83-255-190-140.bredband.comhem.se] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 23:03 < nmz787> "Brain could be folded 3D antenna" 23:03 < nmz787> "Evolutionary advantage if bio-quantum link" 23:03 < yashgaroth> um 23:04 -!- splicer [~ubuntu@c83-255-190-140.bredband.comhem.se] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:04 < Mokbortolan_> that's why you wear the tinfoil hat 23:05 < Mokbortolan_> not to shield your brain from the government, that's clearly ridiculous 23:05 < yashgaroth> this stuff is almost colander hat level 23:05 < Mokbortolan_> it's to serve as a waveguide for the folded 3d bio-quantum antenna that is your brain 23:06 < Mokbortolan_> and then, by focusing your innate N-Rays, you can have powers untold 23:10 < Mokbortolan_> i'm sure it's in the bible somewhere 23:10 < Mokbortolan_> methuselah or something 23:26 -!- lichen [~lichen@c-76-105-164-184.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 23:26 -!- lichen [~lichen@c-76-105-164-184.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:27 -!- strangewarp [~strangewa@c-76-25-200-47.hsd1.co.comcast.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 23:29 -!- joshcryer [~g@unaffiliated/joshcryer] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 23:29 -!- strangewarp [~strangewa@c-76-25-200-47.hsd1.co.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:49 -!- nmz787 [~Nathan@cpe-67-242-177-23.rochester.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 23:53 -!- joshcryer [~g@unaffiliated/joshcryer] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:53 -!- _Sketch_ [~Sketch@71-91-221-175.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 23:53 -!- _Sketch_ [~Sketch@71-91-221-175.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap --- Log closed Tue May 15 00:00:10 2012