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05:28 < fenn> heh at the end someone mentions that ITER actually uses REBCO wires going to the Nb3Sn coils, it's just that they can't change the entire design now
05:59 < fenn> "The US physics research community in 2002 elected to support US participation in ITER instead of FIRE. ... ITER was at that time expected to cost the US $500 million and begin operating with tritium in 2017."
06:00 < fenn> "no US fusion researcher would have chosen ITER over FIRE had ITER’s true cost and completion date been known."
06:56 < adlai> lsneff: my anecdote re:spaced repetition is that I still have bits and pieces of shakespeare memorized from high school, over a decade ago
06:57 < adlai> sonnet 130 took a few weeks of daily repetition in 10th grade english class, followed by about a decade of forgetting its existence, then after reading it again a few times, i can quite reliably regurgitate it
06:58 < adlai> immortal soliloquy ('to be or not to be...') took a few months of daily repetition, followed by about a decade of knowing that i had it in my mind, although not bothering to reinforce it, then one day testing myself and being surprised to discover that i still had it almost perfect
06:59 < adlai> by 'daily repetition', i mean that the teacher, with an evil grin on her face, had the entire class recite the verse together, once, at the start of each class. five times per week.
06:59 < adlai> we were quite specifically instructed not to practice the verses at home.
07:00  * adlai wonders whether any of the other students still remember these!
07:01 < adlai> recently I've been toying with the idea of undertaking a more serious epic memorization, e.g. Paradise Lost, or the Aeneid, although i've not yet convinced myself that the time it would take to memorize is worth the nearly nonexistent bragging rights of "yes, I have this old garbage in my mind, want to hear all fifty thousand syllables of it? it will only take twenty hours to recite"
07:03 < adlai> some people might maintain that there is some innate talent required, and if you don't have it, you simply can't perform such feats of memorization. that may be the case, although my impression is that it is simply a matter of putting in the time to burn the crap into your brain.
07:05 < adlai> lsneff: if you are worried about verbal flexibility, I suggest reading dictionaries. start from the pages that explain all the various abbreviations and notations, and then just read the damn thing. don't try and memorize new words, just read it as you would a daily newspaper, a few pages each day.
07:06 < adlai> I realize this does not sound like much fun, and it isn't, unless you happen to find a particularly good one. e.g. I found a set of old Hebrew dictionaries that have cool illustrations, so it's less boring than just walls of text.
07:07 < adlai> literally 'found'. they were just sitting on a table in the middle of a boulevard. the various volumes were not from the same publication year, so someone reasoned they were probably not worth anything as a collector's item, and just tossed them out.
07:07 < fenn> i'd recommend not increasing your vocabulary, because it makes it harder to communicate
07:08 < fenn> you will say a rare word, the recipient will pretend to understand (maybe even believe that they do) and the meaning will be lost
07:09 < adlai> there's a tricky balance between always being understood by your entire audience, and being excessively limited by your underestimation of your audience's understanding
07:12 < adlai> e.g., I almost tuned out one professor who appeared unable to say "botany", and kept saying "the study of plants", when it was painfully obvious that her entire audience could figure out from the context what "botany" was even if they had somehow never encountered the word before
07:14 < adlai> I'd go as far as to recommend that in situations where you have a planned speech, and know that you'll be repeating a specific concept several times, in a clear context, it is preferable to switch to a specific obscure word, as a way of reinforcing its correctness and concision, instead of avoiding it just because it's not a common word
07:15 < adlai> obviously this is bad advice if your speech is gonna get turned into a tweetstorm and each morsel dissected out of context. oh well.
07:20 < lsneff> adlai: That's a good suggestion, thank you.
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07:27 < TMA> 1. there is nothing. 2. if there were anything it cannot be known. 3. if it could be known, it cannot be communicated. 4. if it could be communicated, it cannot be understood. (noetic skepsis at its finest (better wording in wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgias#On_Non-Existence))
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07:39 < TMA> (== number of words known/used is irrelevant)
07:41  * L29Ah throws a general null hypothesis out of the window on sight
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10:18 < lsneff> https://www.techradar.com/news/first-petabyte-usable-capacity-ssd-could-come-in-2023
11:55 < jrayhawk> https://m.twitch.tv/directory/game/5d%20chess%20with%20multiverse%20time%20travel
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17:00 < lsneff> https://twitter.com/nanoassembly/status/1288583904572497920?s=20
17:00 < lsneff> .tw
17:00 < saxo> Excited to announce that I will start my lab @UCBerkeley @Berkeley_EECS in 2021! My lab will combine molecular self-assembly and top-down engineering to build nanoscale devices for electronics & medicine. Looking for students and postdocs, please email me. http://tilabberkeley.com https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeHt6AXVoAApY3Q.png (@nanoassembly)
17:00 < lsneff> kanzure: you may be interested in knowing about this.
19:20 < abetusk> .title https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/comments/hsevpl/opensource_multichannel_microfluidicsosmm_pump/
19:20 < saxo> Open-Source Multichannel Microfluidics(OSMM) Pump : functionalprint
19:20 < abetusk> .title https://github.com/joshmaceachern/OSMMPump
19:20 < saxo> GitHub - joshmaceachern/OSMMPump: Open-Source Multichannel Microfluidics Pump. Developed as a research project to create a system that can precisely deliver fluids at a resolution of up to 0.1 uL/min.
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