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| kirka | Hi guys | 04:46 |
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| chris_99 | hello | 04:47 |
| kirka | I'm interested in molecular manufacturing, and I'm doing some web searching about companies that do it | 04:48 |
| kirka | By quite some time now | 04:48 |
| kirka | It's interesting that there are few such companies, and most of them have became inactive some years ago | 04:49 |
| kirka | For example Nanorex | 04:49 |
| kirka | It just became inactive in 2008, and if you serach a lot you just find that some employees just don't work there anymore | 04:51 |
| kirka | But I couldn't find a financial reason of Nanorex diying | 04:53 |
| chris_99 | interesting, their webpage is still up | 04:53 |
| kirka | Yes it is. | 04:53 |
| kirka | And their software NE1 is quite usable (though written in bad programming style), but it doesn't work with modern OSes | 04:54 |
| kirka | It's ridiculous that such a program just lies abandoned for 4 years | 04:55 |
| chris_99 | is it OSS? | 04:55 |
| kirka | Yex | 04:55 |
| kirka | *yes | 04:55 |
| kirka | https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer | 04:55 |
| kirka | kanzure could know more about this | 04:56 |
| kirka | Inside is spaghetti code, no wonder that it's so unportable | 04:57 |
| chris_99 | heh | 04:58 |
| kirka | And Nanorex isn't the only company that ceased activity: Institute for Molecular Manufacturing is like this too | 04:58 |
| chris_99 | hmm, is there examples of the kind of things they made? | 04:59 |
| kirka | Both of these organisations research theoretical aspects of MNT | 04:59 |
| chris_99 | MNT? | 05:00 |
| kirka | Molecular NanoTechnology | 05:00 |
| chris_99 | oh i assumed they actually manufactured stuff | 05:00 |
| chris_99 | based on their designs | 05:00 |
| kirka | Zyvex does that, but it;s in early stage | 05:01 |
| chris_99 | maybe that's why they folded, if noone bought their designs? | 05:01 |
| kirka | by the way Zyvex seems to me the only active firm doing real MNT | 05:01 |
| kirka | Well, designs by themeselves are just curiosities, but the software is good. Maybe it's the financial crisis that dried them out of funding | 05:03 |
| kirka | But they just suddenly stopped | 05:03 |
| kirka | The whole situation around nanotechnology is strange today | 05:04 |
| kirka | Adepts of nanoparticle & nanocoatings receive 100% of gov funding | 05:05 |
| kirka | While real MNT is pushed to the site | 05:06 |
| kirka | *side | 05:06 |
| kirka | It's strange because Drexler, who established the field had molecular assebler as final goal | 05:07 |
| kirka | So, the term "nanotechnology" has been redefined by synthetic chemists and material sciencists to include their work | 05:08 |
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| chris_99 | i love the idea of a molecular assembler, that'd be amazing | 05:10 |
| kirka | As a result we have now very few people who research molecular nanotechnology. | 05:11 |
| kirka | Yes, I love the idea too | 05:11 |
| kirka | So, I don't understand, why there is so little funding given to projects that lead to moecular assebler | 05:14 |
| kirka | There seems to be a lot of politics in this question | 05:15 |
| chris_99 | are they any proposed ideas for how a molecular assembler would work | 05:17 |
| chris_99 | *there | 05:17 |
| kirka | Yes, here is bibliography http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/AnnBibDMS.htm | 05:18 |
| kirka | This paper for example http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/MinToolset.pdf | 05:19 |
| chris_99 | cheers :) | 05:19 |
| kirka | Actually, Drexler published a solid book on the subkect 20 years ago: "Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing,and Computation" | 05:20 |
| kirka | Hmm, my timing isn't right - it's early morning in US | 05:23 |
| kirka | That's why not so many active users | 05:24 |
| kirka | I'm from Russia | 05:24 |
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| chris_99 | yeah it's a weekend too | 05:31 |
| kirka1 | Well, I'm not in a hurry, heh | 05:33 |
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| nmz787 | kirka1: i am holding a ruusian toy terrier (dog) | 06:27 |
| kirka1 | heh | 06:27 |
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| kirka1 | Logs of your channel are interesting | 06:51 |
| kirka1 | >< kanzure> just got off the phone with the nanoengineer-1 funder | 06:51 |
| kirka1 | >< kanzure> he stopped funding it | 06:52 |
| kirka1 | As expected. | 06:52 |
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| kirka1 | btw is kanzure often here? | 07:10 |
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| nmz787 | kirka1: yes | 07:13 |
| kirka1 | That's good | 07:13 |
| kirka1 | He worked on NE-1 | 07:13 |
| nmz787 | well he saved it from being completely abandoned | 07:19 |
| nmz787 | I was trying to get it to run without all the chroot stuff, but haven't been successful at getting it to work | 07:20 |
| kirka1 | Good pice of aoftware, but inside it's pretty messy | 07:20 |
| kirka1 | *piece | 07:20 |
| kirka1 | Such programs shouldn't be written in python. | 07:21 |
| chris_99 | nmz787, why's it need chroot? | 07:21 |
| kirka1 | Old libraries | 07:21 |
| chris_99 | ah | 07:21 |
| chris_99 | theres nothing inherently wrong with python | 07:21 |
| kirka1 | And it doesn't use multithreading | 07:21 |
| kirka1 | Speed, portability, threading, standartisation - python doesn't have it | 07:22 |
| kirka1 | I have used it years ago | 07:22 |
| chris_99 | hmm, i'm not sure i'd agree with all of those | 07:22 |
| chris_99 | it can do multiprocessing | 07:23 |
| kirka1 | Yes, you are right | 07:23 |
| chris_99 | but the lack of decent threading is annoying | 07:23 |
| kirka1 | I agree that it's not bad language | 07:24 |
| kirka1 | But if a had to write something like NE1 it would be clojure@jvm, or C. | 07:24 |
| kirka1 | Of course simuation modules should be written in C | 07:25 |
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| nmz787 | python is the get-shit-done language though | 07:27 |
| eudoxia | I'd write the whole thing in some relatively high-performance language | 07:27 |
| nmz787 | and there are JIT compilers/interpreters | 07:27 |
| eudoxia | NE1 goes slow as balls with anything over 10,000 atoms | 07:27 |
| nmz787 | eudoxia: C? | 07:27 |
| eudoxia | nmz787: or C++, maybe Java | 07:28 |
| eudoxia | I thought that Python JIT thing had failed? | 07:28 |
| kirka1 | Yes | 07:28 |
| kirka1 | C++/Java could be used | 07:28 |
| kirka1 | Python isn't suited for compilation | 07:29 |
| kirka1 | There is PyPy, but it has even more compatibility problems | 07:29 |
| nmz787 | Java is not high-performance IMO, at least not compared to python | 07:30 |
| kirka1 | Personally, I like lisp for speed and expressivnes, but for a project with team of developers it's too alien technology | 07:30 |
| kirka1 | So C++/Java | 07:30 |
| eudoxia | which lisp? | 07:30 |
| kirka1 | nmz787 JVM is very fast today. | 07:30 |
| kirka1 | Scheme and Common Lisp | 07:30 |
| * eudoxia high-fives kirka1 | 07:31 | |
| chris_99 | Java has proper threading nmz787 | 07:31 |
| kirka1 | heh | 07:31 |
| nmz787 | hmm | 07:31 |
| chris_99 | unlike python | 07:31 |
| nmz787 | ever since I learned java applets like 15 years ago, I never liked it much | 07:31 |
| nmz787 | hmm | 07:31 |
| eudoxia | you are into MNT and use Common Lisp? I thought I had split personality for a while there | 07:31 |
| nmz787 | i know a lot of big companies use java | 07:31 |
| chris_99 | Java is very different to Java applets | 07:32 |
| kirka1 | Why? NOte that Merkle and Drexler have ties with AI and AI was strongly connected to common lisp | 07:32 |
| kirka1 | eudoxia I'm also into robotics http://rghost.ru/40311893.view | 07:32 |
| eudoxia | kirka1: what does it do? | 07:33 |
| chris_99 | wow nice :) have you built that? | 07:33 |
| kirka1 | It;s a second version of my prototype, I'm learning the first one to walk (though servos are quite weak) | 07:34 |
| kirka1 | First one is pretty DIYsh: http://rghost.ru/40398113.view | 07:34 |
| chris_99 | did you make the plastic with a 3d printer? | 07:35 |
| kirka1 | You guys are probably older than me, I'm student in cybernetics faculty of my city's university | 07:35 |
| kirka1 | No, it's polycaprolactone, handmade | 07:35 |
| kirka1 | Thermo-polymer | 07:36 |
| kirka1 | Second prototype will be 3d-printed | 07:36 |
| nmz787 | kirka1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDsKEexQtwI | 07:36 |
| nmz787 | my old roommate built that | 07:36 |
| kirka1 | Cool | 07:36 |
| nmz787 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83LnRTKE1qw | 07:36 |
| nmz787 | "Hexapod Robot Movement and Walking Demo" | 07:37 |
| kirka1 | Robotics is cool, some 20-30 years ago people thought that in future robots will do hard work for them | 07:38 |
| kirka1 | But it didn't happen exactly that way | 07:39 |
| kirka1 | Though today service robotics market begins to emerge | 07:40 |
| kirka1 | Heartland, Redwood robotics | 07:40 |
| kirka1 | It's good that investment moves from internet to ral world again | 07:41 |
| kirka1 | *real | 07:41 |
| eudoxia | kirka1: have you heard of http://www.zyvexlabs.com/Research.html | 07:43 |
| eudoxia | http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/05/jim-von-ehr-founder-and-owner-of-zyvex.html | 07:43 |
| eudoxia | "We are confident that we will be able to create simple, blocklike objects within the next five years. From that point, capabilities should grow fairly rapidly. Once simple block objects are created, we can programmably assemble them to make more complex objects. Zyvex has already identified a number of market opportunities for these. Once we get the basic capability of creating these simple objects, we can expand thei | 07:44 |
| eudoxia | r complexity and sophistication rapidly." | 07:44 |
| eudoxia | "[...] by 2020 we should have rudimentary molecular manufacturing systems in operation" | 07:44 |
| kirka1 | Yes, I researched about their activity | 07:44 |
| kirka1 | There was one presentation | 07:44 |
| eudoxia | yeah, you mean the transcript on the Accelerating Future people blog? | 07:45 |
| kirka1 | No, it's hard to find | 07:45 |
| kirka1 | www.nnin.org/doc/snmr10/zyvex-cornell-2010.pdf | 07:45 |
| kirka1 | That's it | 07:45 |
| kirka1 | And also seems that this corp works with Zyvex: http://www.icspicorp.com/ | 07:46 |
| kirka1 | I have high hopes about that | 07:46 |
| kirka1 | Finally, integrated parallel MEMS-AFM | 07:46 |
| eudoxia | oh I remember this one | 07:47 |
| kirka1 | Tey still keep their products in secret | 07:47 |
| kirka1 | *they | 07:47 |
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| kirka1 | NOtice that both Zyvex and icspi are working with DARPA | 07:47 |
| eudoxia | their APM page has nothing but a logo | 07:49 |
| eudoxia | Since DARPA seems to make everything out of sci-fi, I should just ship them a copy of The Diamond Age to see if it will speed up their program :) | 07:49 |
| kirka1 | Yes, but they say "2011 icspi reports the first images taken with a CMOS-MEMS scanning probe microscope" | 07:49 |
| kirka1 | Heh, you are right | 07:49 |
| kirka1 | I love that book, Stephenson does a lot of technical research before writing a book | 07:50 |
| eudoxia | It's really refreshing when fiction is factually accurate, and I thought the idea of the feed line was a very creative and plausible addition | 07:51 |
| eudoxia | It's a plausible midpoint between completely offloading manufacturing capabilities to the end user: Complex atomic structures are manufactured at Source Victoria, and the assemblers don't have to do any molecular manufacturing, they just grab the prefab pieces and put them together | 07:51 |
| kirka1 | Yes, that's a way for big nanotech corps to protect their IP | 07:51 |
| kirka1 | And a good way to prevent disasters | 07:52 |
| eudoxia | So, big complex SPMs and vacuum chambers are not needed for the personal assemblers, they are only used at the source. The personal nanofactories are just a micropositioning system with a billion end-effectors | 07:53 |
| eudoxia | Disasters? Like gray goo or people printing MOABs? | 07:53 |
| kirka1 | Yes. | 07:53 |
| eudoxia | If nanotech is limited to silicon or diamond I doubt people will be able to print bombs | 07:54 |
| eudoxia | Although, you could print a machine to make ammonia and build fertilizer explosives | 07:54 |
| eudoxia | You know, probably | 07:54 |
| kirka1 | It's complex to label object being manufactured as "dangerous", yes. | 07:55 |
| kirka1 | There should be a lot of heuristics. | 07:55 |
| kirka1 | It's also interesting that there is only one time the word "spaceship" is mentioned in book. | 07:55 |
| eudoxia | I think it's pretty useless to try and scan pdb files for potential weapons | 07:56 |
| kirka1 | Probably Stepehenson understood that, but it ruined stabe settings | 07:56 |
| eudoxia | The entire periodic table is a fucking bomb | 07:56 |
| kirka1 | And probably everybody who wanted to fly to space did it, and stable conservative part of society remained on Earth. | 07:57 |
| kirka1 | Yes, the question of safety worries me | 07:57 |
| kirka1 | Active defence systems should be developed first | 07:57 |
| kirka1 | But anyway transient time is most dangerous | 07:58 |
| eudoxia | Active shields like what Drexler talked about in Engines? | 07:58 |
| eudoxia | the ones for gray goo? | 07:58 |
| kirka1 | Yes, something like that | 07:58 |
| kirka1 | Gray goo is an old concept, but I think that precise weapon systems targeted at humans (and even specific persons) are possible | 07:59 |
| kirka1 | Viruses are such systems, and they are even atomically precise, heh | 08:00 |
| eudoxia | I don't think gray goo will ever happen, all the plausible MNT systems I've seen are too big to fit inside, say the volume of a Respirocyte, and simply not fast enough | 08:00 |
| eudoxia | But viruses are made of protein, which is made with ribosomes but can't be made with MNT | 08:01 |
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| kirka1 | I too don't think that gray goo is possible, but less devastating weapons seem possible. | 08:02 |
| kirka1 | Yeah, virus is just an analogy | 08:02 |
| eudoxia | Maybe a cookie cutter may be possible | 08:03 |
| eudoxia | I mean, it doesn't take any tooltips, any logic, it's just two counter-rotating rods in a vacuum bag | 08:03 |
| eudoxia | i mean, disks | 08:03 |
| kirka1 | I just imagine respirocyte filled with good poison. | 08:03 |
| kirka1 | They had control system inside | 08:03 |
| eudoxia | Pure diamond or silicon crystals may be enough | 08:03 |
| kirka1 | Maybe. | 08:04 |
| eudoxia | I wonder what happens when one swallows diamond powder... | 08:04 |
| eudoxia | They did? | 08:04 |
| kirka1 | Yes, to destroy prisoners | 08:04 |
| kirka1 | Actually I've read that fullerenes make mouses live two times longer | 08:05 |
| eudoxia | Oh right the seven-minute timer | 08:05 |
| kirka1 | btw, before possibility of nano-weapons there will be some time (it begins now, actually) when bioweapons will become dangeous | 08:06 |
| kirka1 | Molecular biology develops at fast pace | 08:06 |
| kirka1 | We already design simple proteins | 08:06 |
| eudoxia | definitely a faster pace than MNT | 08:06 |
| kirka1 | Yes, sadly | 08:06 |
| eudoxia | I mean, it's basically just Merkle and Freitas who last published anything in 2008, and Moriarty is, well | 08:06 |
| kirka1 | BUt self-assembly is also viable route | 08:07 |
| eudoxia | I suppose | 08:07 |
| kirka1 | MOriarty did already published results? | 08:07 |
| eudoxia | He wrote a paper about flipping bonds on Silicon surfaces | 08:07 |
| kirka1 | I'll search for it, thanks | 08:08 |
| eudoxia | last I checked they had just achieved atomic resolution on C(110) diamond with a qPlus AFM | 08:08 |
| eudoxia | The grant runs out in 2013 | 08:09 |
| kirka1 | I don't like tha fact that Drexler, Merkle and Freitas ere marginalized in their own field by bunch of synthetic chemistry and material science guys. | 08:09 |
| eudoxia | So unless they had some major breakthroughs, I doubt anything will come out of it. Definitely not a full-implementation of the Minimal Toolset. | 08:09 |
| eudoxia | Oh yeah I was pretty pissed off when I first found out about that. | 08:09 |
| kirka1 | The question is, what could I do about that. | 08:10 |
| kirka1 | Well, I'm studying physics. | 08:10 |
| eudoxia | The quickest path to MNT is probably patterned epitaxy | 08:11 |
| kirka1 | Yes, Zyvex does that. | 08:11 |
| kirka1 | I hope they'll succeed. | 08:11 |
| eudoxia | I doubt I can just call DARPA and ask "Yo how is your APM program doing?" | 08:12 |
| kirka1 | Heh | 08:12 |
| kirka1 | Actually I suspect that military has some APM program. | 08:13 |
| eudoxia | Well they better | 08:13 |
| kirka1 | But it doesn't change situation for us, civilians (yet). | 08:13 |
| eudoxia | Even if it ends up like in the Diamond Age, at least I'll be able to laugh and angrily shake my fist at people and say "Drexler was right, he was right ALL ALONG" | 08:14 |
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| kirka1 | Seems that he'll become a major historical figure in future history textbooks. | 08:15 |
| eudoxia | I'll be very disappointed if he doesn't | 08:15 |
| eudoxia | DARPA's living foundries program might be worth looking into | 08:19 |
| kirka1 | But again - I don't like passivity and technical incompetence (no offence meant) of h+ movement - it consists mostly of philosophers and non-sciencists, that wait for Future to solve their problems. Moore's law isn't a "law", it's a consequence of tens of thousands of physicists and engineers working hard to create even more complex ICs. | 08:19 |
| kirka1 | So, the main question is "How can I influence future according to my wishes". | 08:19 |
| eudoxia | It's okay dude everyone here feels the same | 08:20 |
| kirka1 | Yes, thanks, I'll check. | 08:20 |
| kirka1 | That's good. | 08:20 |
| eudoxia | we're always bitching about humanity+ and SIAI | 08:21 |
| kirka1 | Heh | 08:23 |
| kirka1 | btw J.C.Venter right now is probably debugging his synthetic minimal genome | 08:23 |
| kirka1 | afk for ~1 hour (inline skates) | 08:25 |
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| Mokbortolan_1 | kirka1: so, are you saying "the h+ movement" should endeavor to be more technically competent, or that more technically competent people should join, or what? | 08:39 |
| eudoxia | I bet it's the first | 08:47 |
| kanzure | kirka1: nanorex closed down because mark sims didn't want to keep funding it | 09:06 |
| kanzure | kirka1: Institute for Molecular Manufacturing is just a thing for freitas and merkle to publish stuff | 09:06 |
| kanzure | kirka1: zyvex doesn't really do anything mnt related.. just some materials stuff, maybe positioning stuff. | 09:06 |
| kanzure | http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/nanotech/ might be helpful | 09:11 |
| kanzure | freitas is always looking for new papers to publish, but most of his simulations aren't entirely practical yet(?) | 09:11 |
| kanzure | "In particular, presumably as a result of this case, JSTOR now requires strong authentication from the individual MIT account holder, instead of permitting access from MIT's IP address space as they used to" | 09:20 |
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| kanzure | well so much for kirka | 09:32 |
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| kanzure | kirka: welcome back. | 09:33 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | I think I'm pretty technically competent... within my sphere. | 09:33 |
| kanzure | Mokbortolan_1: that's the first sign that you're not | 09:33 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | d'oh! | 09:33 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | though, my sphere is in corporate IT | 09:34 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | I'm competent at taking things out of the box and turning them on! | 09:34 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | and regurgitating things I read on the internet: http://i.imgur.com/P8eig.jpg | 09:37 |
| kirka | kanzure Hi | 09:38 |
| kanzure | kirka: hello. | 09:39 |
| kirka | kanzure I wanted to discuss Nanorex and NE1 | 09:39 |
| kanzure | i left you some messages http://gnusha.org/logs/2012-09-16.log | 09:39 |
| kirka | Jh, thanks | 09:40 |
| kirka | Well Mark Sims didn't look like MNT guy | 09:41 |
| kirka | It was business for him | 09:41 |
| kirka | If IMM is active, it's good | 09:41 |
| kirka | And what about NE1? Would it be useful for anybody? | 09:42 |
| kanzure | nanorex started working with paul rothemund to integrate some dna origami stuff into nanoengineer | 09:43 |
| kanzure | they were thinking that dna origami would be more practical than molecular nanotechnology stuff | 09:43 |
| kirka | And it didn't work? Seems that only Seeman continues developing DNA origami | 09:43 |
| kanzure | dna origami works fine. paul rothemund and erik winfree's labs still do dna origami. ned seeman is doing crystallography stuff i think. | 09:44 |
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| kanzure | mark just didn't know how to make money off of nanoengineer, and he was afraid there was no practical utility in it | 09:47 |
| brownies | how does one make money off it? | 09:48 |
| kirka | Mokbortolan_1: I think that h+ movement should have active, not passive attitude toward science/technology. It would be logical for such movement to actually move science/technology forward. From PR point of view it makes movement serious. | 09:48 |
| nmz787 | kirka: we are active | 09:49 |
| kirka | You are oldschool guys. heh | 09:49 |
| nmz787 | huh? | 09:50 |
| skorket | ??? | 09:50 |
| nmz787 | we're all pretty 'young' | 09:50 |
| kanzure | brownies: off of nanoengineer? well, i still want it to continue existing even without funding. | 09:50 |
| nmz787 | 20-30 | 09:50 |
| kirka | Then, oldschool by spirit | 09:50 |
| skorket | what are you talking about? | 09:51 |
| kirka | In media h+ looks like pop-scientific religion | 09:51 |
| kanzure | ignore the media | 09:52 |
| kirka | I do | 09:52 |
| kirka | But there are people who don't | 09:52 |
| kanzure | ignore those people | 09:52 |
| kirka | And with this image theu discard the whole ide of technoprogressivism | 09:52 |
| kirka | *idea | 09:52 |
| kanzure | technowhat? | 09:52 |
| kirka | You name it | 09:52 |
| nmz787 | normal people are not scientific or progressive | 09:52 |
| nmz787 | they follow the media and that's it, and the media is controlled by old white dudes who just want slavery to come back | 09:53 |
| skorket | kirka, instead of talking about it, do it. If you want something changed, help change it | 09:53 |
| kirka | Yes, you are right, that's my attitude | 09:54 |
| kirka | But in the end PR influences funding, without money it's ahrd to do anything | 09:55 |
| kanzure | we have money available for projects | 09:55 |
| kanzure | more funding is always nice, but not necessary | 09:55 |
| kirka | Ok [by the way, my english is rather dry becaouse I read mostly technical texts] | 09:56 |
| kirka | So, about NE1 | 09:56 |
| kirka | I ran it recently, the interface is quite convenient | 09:56 |
| nmz787 | kirka: dry is good, as long as you can spell OK | 09:57 |
| kanzure | kirka: linux? | 09:57 |
| nmz787 | we're all pretty much scientists or computer nerds | 09:57 |
| nmz787 | or engineers | 09:57 |
| kirka | No, winXP@VM | 09:57 |
| kirka | That's good | 09:57 |
| kanzure | i suggest learning linux :) | 09:58 |
| kirka | I know it | 09:58 |
| kirka | Actually, I think that monolithic OSes and X86 are things from second millenium | 09:59 |
| kirka | But we have this technology and have to use it | 10:00 |
| kirka | So, NE1 source is complex | 10:01 |
| kirka | And it's slow | 10:01 |
| kanzure | it runs pretty fast for me | 10:01 |
| kirka | btw do you still have to use old libraries to run it on Linux? | 10:02 |
| kirka | Would you write it in another way, if you were to do it? | 10:02 |
| kanzure | yes you must use older libraries for now https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer#installing | 10:02 |
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| brownies | kanzure: well, sure. i would like lots of things to continue without funding. | 10:02 |
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| kanzure | kirka: once i finish upgrading the old libraries, i will split off different sections into smaller libraries. | 10:03 |
| kirka | Is it python or architecture fault that it's so unportable? | 10:03 |
| kanzure | it's very portable | 10:03 |
| nmz787 | i have it on my laptop | 10:04 |
| nmz787 | i take my laptop all over the place! | 10:04 |
| nmz787 | :P | 10:04 |
| kirka | On WinXP? | 10:04 |
| kanzure | yes it runs on windows xp :( | 10:04 |
| kirka | Does Win7 have very diffrent API? | 10:04 |
| kanzure | i have not tried windows 7 | 10:04 |
| kirka | As far as i know sciencists often use windows. | 10:05 |
| kanzure | nope | 10:05 |
| nmz787 | nah | 10:05 |
| kanzure | fuck windows | 10:05 |
| nmz787 | it depends | 10:05 |
| brownies | haha | 10:06 |
| kirka | Well, there was time when I used only linux, but then I began working in some heavy CADs, and had to move to windows. | 10:06 |
| nmz787 | i had an english teacher (b.s. in electrical engi, phd in history) that totally surprised me when he was talking about linux | 10:06 |
| kanzure | yes, CAD is a good reason to use windows. true. | 10:06 |
| kanzure | if you do not need solidworks/catia/pro-engineer/autocad, you can use brlcad.org | 10:06 |
| nmz787 | i hate that video drivers generally suck in linux | 10:06 |
| nmz787 | unless you're super cautious about choosing hardware | 10:07 |
| kirka | Yes, that thing too. | 10:07 |
| nmz787 | which in laptops is a bit of a pain | 10:07 |
| kirka | Two screens were very complex to set up | 10:07 |
| nmz787 | also i have a tablet PC that I love (2nd tablet in last 5 years) and it kinda sucks on linux | 10:07 |
| kanzure | kirka: ask jrayhawk about setting up 20 screens. | 10:07 |
| ThomasEgi | kanzure, well for a while now, there's medusa for linux. | 10:07 |
| kanzure | http://www.omgwallhack.org/home/jrayhawk/img/hovel/20120512_008.jpg | 10:07 |
| nmz787 | multi monitors are a breeze in ubuntu | 10:07 |
| kirka | Heh | 10:07 |
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| kirka | kanzure If NE1 is just a GUI (simulattion is done by another programs/libraries) Wouldn't it be better to write it about some JVM language? | 10:08 |
| brownies | why do you need 20 monitors? o.O | 10:08 |
| ThomasEgi | brownies, because of moar? | 10:08 |
| kanzure | kirka: nanoengineer has lots of other things going on underneath like modeling and heuristics, rules, CAD, etc. | 10:09 |
| brownies | ThomasEgi: oh, well, alright then. | 10:09 |
| kanzure | the GUI is just one small part of nanoengineer | 10:09 |
| kirka | Yes, nanodynamics is written in C | 10:09 |
| brownies | but he's not even using half of the monitors in his picture! | 10:09 |
| kanzure | iirc python can run on the jvm. i don't think that's a problem. | 10:09 |
| kanzure | no not just nanodynamics, there are other things | 10:09 |
| kanzure | like the file format python stuff | 10:10 |
| kanzure | and the pdb support | 10:10 |
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| ThomasEgi | kanzure, is that jrayhawk guy autistic/asperger or so? he ordered the gpu's by the position of their vga connector... | 10:12 |
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| nmz787 | ThomasEgi: i don't think so | 10:12 |
| kanzure | jrayhawk is a hero | 10:12 |
| kirka | kanzure Don't python's different versions make it more difficult to maintain? 2.6 2.7 3.1 and so on | 10:13 |
| kanzure | not really | 10:13 |
| kanzure | 2.7 has some minor differences to 2.6, but it's not important for nanoengineer really | 10:13 |
| kanzure | i fixed the incompatibilities for python 2.x | 10:13 |
| kanzure | support for python 3.x is not necessary | 10:13 |
| kanzure | (at least, not now) | 10:13 |
| kirka | Ok | 10:13 |
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| ThomasEgi | yo | 10:14 |
| kirka | So the only problem is old libraries? | 10:14 |
| kanzure | yes | 10:14 |
| kanzure | these are instructions for getting it to work with the old library versions: | 10:14 |
| kanzure | https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer#installing | 10:14 |
| kirka | Yes, thanks, I have read this repo | 10:14 |
| nmz787 | kirka: are you good with python? | 10:15 |
| nmz787 | i started trying to port it to newer libs | 10:15 |
| kirka | I have used it years ago | 10:15 |
| nmz787 | so far i can get the GUI to come up, but a few buttons are missing and demo files dont load/show up | 10:15 |
| kanzure | nmz787: you started in the wrong direction | 10:15 |
| nmz787 | ? | 10:15 |
| kanzure | you took a non-working version and tried to make it work, which meant everything was broken | 10:15 |
| kirka | It would be of great help if someone draw diagram of NE1 architecture | 10:16 |
| nmz787 | huh | 10:16 |
| nmz787 | it world | 10:16 |
| nmz787 | worked | 10:16 |
| kanzure | i suggest taking a working version of nanoengineer, and breaking it one piece at a time | 10:16 |
| kirka | There is a hundred of files, it's quite complex | 10:16 |
| nmz787 | that's what massive find-replace is for! | 10:16 |
| kanzure | it starts here: | 10:17 |
| nmz787 | but the main complaint was actually numeric -> numpy/scipy | 10:17 |
| kanzure | https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer/blob/master/cad/src/main.py | 10:17 |
| nmz787 | and scipy has a converter script | 10:17 |
| kirka | afk 50 min | 10:17 |
| nmz787 | which helped with most of that | 10:17 |
| kanzure | and these things: | 10:17 |
| kanzure | https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer/tree/master/cad/src | 10:17 |
| nmz787 | now it seems i've got qt bugs | 10:17 |
| nmz787 | but i havent pushed recently to github | 10:17 |
| kanzure | btw you should fix your commits :P it said "--NathanMcCorkle" instead of "Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com>" | 10:18 |
| kanzure | if you use the second format then github will know to link to your account | 10:18 |
| kanzure | and git/email tools will know how to contact you | 10:18 |
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| kanzure | oh also another thing i've neglected to mention is that there is a lack of unit tests | 10:19 |
| kanzure | if unit tests are written, then it becomes much much easier to tell when things are broken | 10:19 |
| kanzure | so few :( https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer/tree/master/cad/src/tests | 10:19 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | I just use what's in front of me or what's best for the job | 10:20 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | OS wars are stupid | 10:20 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | it's like saying "I prefer to use a rounded shovel." | 10:21 |
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| strangewarp | Fool! Pointed shovels are superior! | 10:21 |
| kanzure | Mokbortolan_1: it's not an OS war, it's a simple fact: i will not be able to help you if you continue to use windows | 10:21 |
| kanzure | and since all you windows users have so far been completely unhelpful, i don't see much value in switching to windows | 10:22 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | that's fine | 10:22 |
| kanzure | s/switching to/using | 10:22 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | what is this "switch" | 10:22 |
| kanzure | i corrected myself already, you can't call me on that. | 10:22 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | like, dual-booting? | 10:22 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | :p | 10:22 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | I use Windows when I don't want to fiddle with stuff, and I use Linux when I do | 10:23 |
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| Mokbortolan_1 | so really, what you're saying is, "my mental toolkit doesn't contain that tool" | 10:26 |
| nmz787 | i have a VM of ubuntu running often | 10:26 |
| nmz787 | its OK fast | 10:26 |
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| nmz787 | but not native fast | 10:27 |
| nmz787 | but from what i've read there are too many issues with linux on this laptop | 10:27 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | I have a VM of OSX I use to help me write documentation :) | 10:27 |
| nmz787 | and i'm not a good enough coder (or not devoted enough with enough concentration/attention span) | 10:27 |
| nmz787 | kinda like Mokbortolan_1 said, it works in windows | 10:27 |
| nmz787 | and the VM works flawlessly because it doesn't need any of the real drivers | 10:28 |
| nmz787 | last summer I used a mac book pro and developed in a ubuntu VM | 10:28 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | I like to think that as a user, I've transcended OS choice | 10:28 |
| nmz787 | that worked surprisingly well | 10:28 |
| kanzure | why a vm? why not just ssh into something? | 10:29 |
| nmz787 | you need tubes for that | 10:30 |
| nmz787 | and i had no reliable tubes at home that summer | 10:30 |
| nmz787 | kanzure: if you were a bear, i think this is what you'd look like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Lippenbaer-24.jpg | 10:32 |
| Mokbortolan_1 | http://i.imgur.com/H0poN.jpg <-- chemistry joke | 10:35 |
| kanzure | nmz787: if that's a link to winnie the pooh, i will be amused | 10:47 |
| kanzure | jrayhawk: there is a surprising lack of content in http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/nutrition/ and i blame you. will you fix this? | 10:48 |
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| kirka | kanzure Does there exist desigm document, or feature list for NE1? It would be helpful to know how the complete CAD should work. | 10:51 |
| skorket | finally! got a V-USB example to work | 10:54 |
| kanzure | kirka: no. there are some documents on the wiki, but i don't think they are complete. mostly they are tutorials. | 10:55 |
| chris_99 | nice skorket, i've just been trying to get USB to work on the PIC | 10:58 |
| skorket | I imagine it might be easier depending on what you're doing. (some) PICs are way faster, might even have some USB built in and probably have a lot more supporting software for it | 10:59 |
| kanzure | hm i should recover the nanoengineer wiki before it goes poof. it's been spam-attacked a few times in the past few years. | 10:59 |
| chris_99 | skorket, the lib is a bit crap tbh | 10:59 |
| kirka | kanzure Wiki went offline some days ago. | 11:00 |
| skorket | V-USB? | 11:00 |
| chris_99 | no, the one for the PIC | 11:00 |
| kanzure | http://www.nanoengineer-1.net/mediawiki/index.php | 11:00 |
| kanzure | fuck. | 11:00 |
| kirka | kanzure It would be godd if you made archived version of wiki articles | 11:00 |
| kirka | *good | 11:00 |
| kanzure | ok i will call mark in a few hours and ask him wtf | 11:02 |
| skorket | ah, interesting. Not that V-USB is probably much better. There's the ATMega32u which has some USB built in but I'm not in the position to switch over to that yet. Plus it's slightly more expensive | 11:02 |
| kirka | skorket I program MCUs too | 11:03 |
| kirka | skorket For USB I use PL2303 converter. Cheap and easy. | 11:03 |
| chris_99 | what interface does that use kirka | 11:05 |
| kirka | chris_99 It's UART to USB converter | 11:06 |
| skorket | $6 single quantity from mouser. FTDI chips are about $5 single quantity. ATMega328 are about $3 single quantity. FTDI seems to be the standard go-to chip (it's what Arduino uses). I've been recommended PL2303 before but I don't understand why that's desirable over the FTDI chip or why I shouldn't just use V-USB on an ATMega for low speed applications | 11:06 |
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| chris_99 | hmm, doesn't that mean you can only do serial comms kirka | 11:06 |
| kirka | Yes I do, heh | 11:06 |
| kirka | I'm more intrested in applying MCUs in robotics | 11:07 |
| kirka | There interfaces are irrelevant | 11:07 |
| kirka | I seriously learned programming with AVR assembly | 11:08 |
| chris_99 | yeah it's a nice way to learn asm, with MCUs | 11:09 |
| skorket | interfaces are the ways you communicate with the widgets you build. They're important | 11:09 |
| kanzure | kirka: do you know Медведев Данила? | 11:10 |
| kirka | chris_99 Yes, x86 is full of legacy hacks, it's pain to programm it in assembly | 11:10 |
| kirka | kanzure He is leader of russian transhumanists society, I am coutious about him. | 11:10 |
| kirka | *cautious | 11:10 |
| kanzure | do you talk with him regularly? | 11:11 |
| kirka | kanzure It's about nanoinventor CAD? | 11:11 |
| kirka | No, not at all | 11:11 |
| kirka | I'm on my own | 11:11 |
| kanzure | ah okay. | 11:11 |
| kirka | Rusnano is a fraud mostly | 11:11 |
| kanzure | oh? i know very little about rusnano | 11:11 |
| kanzure | i know they have about $10 billion USD | 11:11 |
| kirka | Don't take them seriously, it'll save your time | 11:11 |
| kirka | That's some scheme of some officials to use gov's money according to their interests | 11:12 |
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| kanzure | i thought maybe rusnano companies would use nanoengineer | 11:13 |
| kirka | It's possible, but rusnano is just another fund that invests in nanoparticles, nanocoatings, LEDs, and so on. | 11:14 |
| kirka | It is a part of PR company, executed bu government circles to make Russia a better place for investnment in investor's eyes | 11:15 |
| skorket | woot! I made an LED turn on! | 11:16 |
| kirka | I wouldn't invest in Russia if I were an investor, heh. | 11:16 |
| kirka | kanzure: Do you plan to continue sime work on NE1? | 11:17 |
| kanzure | yes | 11:17 |
| kirka | Do you search for investors? | 11:18 |
| kanzure | no | 11:18 |
| kirka | That's good | 11:18 |
| kanzure | but! if you have piles of money, i will take these piles from you. | 11:18 |
| kirka | Heh, I'm just young university student | 11:19 |
| kirka | Matvey Ezhov looks naive with his proposal | 11:21 |
| kirka | I'm rereading NE-dev mailing list | 11:21 |
| kirka | NE1 uses Nanodynamics becaouse there are motors and anchors available? | 11:22 |
| kirka | *because | 11:22 |
| kanzure | i think so, yes. i have focused more on the "under the hood code" and less the simulation stuff. | 11:26 |
| kanzure | so cad/src/* not sim/src/* | 11:26 |
| kirka | I looked in sim/src, it would be a pain to multithread this. | 11:27 |
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| kirka | kanzure btw were does Drexler work now? It's hard to find. | 11:35 |
| kanzure | dunno | 11:36 |
| kanzure | he just blogs once a year or something | 11:36 |
| kirka | Also, he is writing a book | 11:36 |
| kanzure | meh | 11:36 |
| kanzure | http://metamodern.com/ | 11:36 |
| kirka | Yes, I'm reading him | 11:37 |
| kirka | He couldn't have given up on his vision | 11:37 |
| kanzure | vision is worthless, everyone has that. | 11:38 |
| kirka | Well, he is Phd | 11:38 |
| kanzure | so? | 11:38 |
| kirka | He has the knowledge to realize his vision | 11:38 |
| kirka | Maybe he doesn't have enough money, yes | 11:39 |
| kanzure | iirc he didn't write any of the nanoengineer software while working at nanorex | 11:39 |
| kirka | He isn't a programmer | 11:39 |
| kanzure | programming is not difficult | 11:39 |
| kanzure | and is a necessary task to make mnt a reality | 11:39 |
| kanzure | mnt is difficult | 11:39 |
| kirka | Personally, I program math intensive software, there math id more important than code (for example - computer vision). | 11:40 |
| kirka | He has written Nanosystems, good physical book on subject. | 11:41 |
| kanzure | http://gnusha.org/stuff_to_deal_with/nanosystems.tar.gz | 11:41 |
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| kirka | Oh, cool | 11:41 |
| kirka | Full version | 11:41 |
| kirka | Thanks | 11:41 |
| eudoxia | Drexler is at Oxford now I think | 11:41 |
| eudoxia | I think Drexler only gave up on direct-to-diamondoid, he now prefers proteins and peptides and stuff | 11:42 |
| eudoxia | which is rather sad | 11:42 |
| kirka | Well, biotech rises | 11:42 |
| eudoxia | Oh definitely, it's just that, after 25 years of spearheading the idea of dry UHV MNT | 11:43 |
| kirka | And we'll have to deal with proteins anyway | 11:43 |
| eudoxia | he sort of gave up | 11:43 |
| eudoxia | breaks my heart | 11:43 |
| kirka | kanzure Why do you think that Zyvex doesn't do APM? www.nnin.org/doc/snmr10/zyvex-cornell-2010.pdf says that they are making progress with atomic layer epitaxy | 11:44 |
| kirka | eudoxia It is sad, if it's true | 11:44 |
| eudoxia | epitaxy might scale better than the min toolset | 11:45 |
| eudoxia | although, germanium can be expensive | 11:45 |
| kanzure | kirka: i am underinformed on zyvex :) their website is pretty bad. | 11:45 |
| kanzure | kirka: are you familiar with diybio? http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/faq | 11:46 |
| kirka | Yes, and they seem to be quiet about their work | 11:46 |
| eudoxia | If Germanium can be recovered from the post-etching fluid then it could be made a little cheaper | 11:46 |
| kirka | kanzure I'm intrested in molecular biology | 11:46 |
| kirka | eudoxia DCB6Ge contains just one Ge atom, whole nanofactory shouldn't include more than ~ten grams of Ge | 11:47 |
| eudoxia | that's the minimal toolset | 11:47 |
| eudoxia | epitaxy just uses an SPM on a Hydrogenated Si surface | 11:47 |
| eudoxia | the whole assembler can be a UHV chamber and a scanning tunneling microscope with a few thousand tips | 11:48 |
| kirka | btw IBM/Zurich pushes state-of-the-art in AFM | 11:48 |
| kirka | *few billion tips | 11:48 |
| eudoxia | I bet the first application of Zyvex's work will be the synthesis of atomically-precise AFM tips | 11:49 |
| eudoxia | not that they would last anything, but, you know, it's useful | 11:49 |
| kirka | kanzure If I will have a good idea, I have a whole cytology university nearby, they could get intrested | 11:50 |
| kirka | eudoxia Yes, and I don't ubderstand why we don't still have ALE patterned tips | 11:50 |
| kirka | kanzure eudoxia: http://www.icspicorp.com/ does next generation AFM. | 11:51 |
| kirka | MEMS parallel tips | 11:51 |
| kirka | They are affilated with Zyvex | 11:52 |
| eudoxia | I know you told me this morning | 11:52 |
| eudoxia | or, whatever time it was in Russia | 11:52 |
| kirka | kanzure could be interested | 11:52 |
| kirka | Heh | 11:52 |
| kirka | It's already ~23:00 | 11:52 |
| kirka | Tomorrow's Control Theory | 11:53 |
| kirka | Cool subject | 11:53 |
| kanzure | time has no meaning in this place | 11:53 |
| eudoxia | the APMC's website is depressingly vacuous | 11:54 |
| eudoxia | https://apmc.zyvex.com/ | 11:54 |
| kirka | Yes, it's either they are unsuccessful, or they are so successful that they don't talk about it. | 11:55 |
| eudoxia | exactly | 11:55 |
| kirka | DARPA is there | 11:55 |
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| eudoxia | which is great | 12:00 |
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| eudoxia | but I want results, not reassurances | 12:00 |
| kirka | I agree | 12:01 |
| kirka | Well, precise ALE patterning of rectangle is good sign | 12:01 |
| eudoxia | wake me up when they get to 3D :P | 12:02 |
| kirka | Heh | 12:03 |
| kirka | From the other front, reprogramming ribosome is promising. | 12:03 |
| kirka | Making it read 4-codons vs 3-codons | 12:04 |
| kirka | Actually, if we could predict folding of long proteins, we could also design new ones. | 12:05 |
| kirka | But neither current supercomputers, nor algorhitms are not sufficient for this task. | 12:06 |
| kanzure | kirka: http://diyhpl.us/laser_etcher/laser_etcher/ | 12:12 |
| kanzure | kirka: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/nucleic/fbi-diybio-dna-v1.pdf | 12:12 |
| kanzure | brownies: i'm having a brain fart. i wrote a unit test to test something that sometimes make an http request to get something unrelated to the actual unit test. | 12:13 |
| kanzure | brownies: instead of passing in a boolean to disable that http request on the target function i'm testing, what should i do? | 12:13 |
| kirka | kanzure cool | 12:16 |
| kirka | kanzure But sequence design is musch bigger problem | 12:18 |
| kirka | kanzure: If I knew innovative new gene or gene combination which does useful stuff, I would go straight to some big biotech company | 12:19 |
| kirka | kanzure: Low price is good for iterationg design | 12:20 |
| kirka | *iterating | 12:20 |
| brownies | kanzure: write a getter function for that thing; the function will make the real http request in production, and simply return a cached/locally-stored value in test | 12:21 |
| kirka | kanzure I do DIY, but I understand that it rarely pushes state-fo-the-art | 12:21 |
| brownies | kanzure: although, hm, that's not quite right. you want to still test the asynchronous nature of it. | 12:21 |
| brownies | kanzure: with ruby you'd use something like the VCR gem. with non-ruby you basically need to implement that sort of functionality. | 12:21 |
| brownies | kanzure: i guess it depends how the bigger thing (that you're testing) uses the http request functionality; if it fires a request asynchronously, then there should already be an existing hook for the response anyway. | 12:22 |
| brownies | so, yeah, do that. | 12:23 |
| kanzure | brownies: it does not require the http request, or rather, i'm not testing that aspect | 12:24 |
| kanzure | kirka: you aren't going to make up a "new sequence" like that. you will either find it in nature or do directed evolution or maaybe some rational protein design, but not much. | 12:25 |
| kirka | kanzure Yes, so I think that the main problem is rational, computational design of proteins | 12:26 |
| kanzure | brownies: maybe i will just make a mock object for the http request thing. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/ | 12:26 |
| kanzure | kirka: "main problem" with what? | 12:27 |
| kirka | kanzure Synthetic biology | 12:27 |
| kanzure | synthetic biology does not focus on protein design | 12:27 |
| kirka | Yes, there are metabolic networks and bunch of other stuff | 12:28 |
| kirka | DIY DNA synthesizer is cool,of course | 12:28 |
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| kirka | Oh, of course molecular biology | 12:29 |
| kirka | Synthetic biology deals also with whole cells and organisms | 12:29 |
| kirka | btw, have you seen Cyber Elegans ? | 12:29 |
| kirka | http://code.google.com/p/openworm/ | 12:30 |
| kanzure | yes. | 12:30 |
| kanzure | have you seen the nematode upload project? | 12:30 |
| kirka | Yes | 12:30 |
| kanzure | http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/nematodeuploadproject/ | 12:30 |
| kirka | They still cannot determine synaptic weights | 12:30 |
| kanzure | todd huffman thinks that vesicle placement is more important | 12:31 |
| kanzure | http://3scan.com/ | 12:31 |
| kirka | I have digged cyber elegans code, it's quite simple, just point masses, springs and integrate-and fire neurons. And Euler integrator. | 12:31 |
| kanzure | also you might be interested in http://github.com/kanzure/netmorph | 12:31 |
| kirka | Cool | 12:32 |
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| kirka | >Simulated Development of Neuron Morphology | 12:32 |
| kirka | But personally, I don't like the idea of "mind uploading", it does lead to death of the subject and creation of the copy. | 12:33 |
| kanzure | people should just say "neuron scanning" | 12:34 |
| kanzure | "mind uploading" carries too much baggage. i want neuron data regardless of whether or not there is a "mind". | 12:34 |
| kirka | Do you think that non-invasive mechanism is possible? | 12:34 |
| kanzure | non-invasive imaging is already possible | 12:35 |
| kirka | But not on single neuron, dendrit, or synapse level. | 12:35 |
| kanzure | well.. if you are allowed to be invasive :) | 12:36 |
| kanzure | http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/In%20vivo%20imaging%20of%20single%20axons%20in%20the%20mouse%20spinal%20cord.pdf | 12:36 |
| kirka | Heh | 12:36 |
| kirka | There is a group of people that believes that if they will be frozen, then scanned layer by layer and then this data simulated, they won't die. | 12:37 |
| kirka | That's ridiculous. | 12:37 |
| kanzure | okay | 12:38 |
| docl | why? | 12:38 |
| docl | isn't life a series of copies from moment to moment anyway? | 12:38 |
| kirka | That depends on your philisophical position. | 12:38 |
| kanzure | docl: he has philosophical tie-ups with death apparently | 12:38 |
| kanzure | kirka: we have an almost-strict no philosophy rule in here | 12:38 |
| kirka | Okay. | 12:38 |
| docl | you go to sleep, you wake up. who's to say it's not a copy that really wakes up? | 12:39 |
| chris_99 | an uploaded mind couldn't be an exact copy anyhow | 12:39 |
| kanzure | "almost strict" means it is allowed if you are careful, or have something new to say, but otherwise i get grumpy :) | 12:39 |
| * docl shuts up | 12:39 | |
| chris_99 | regardless of how invasive you are | 12:39 |
| kanzure | docl: hasn't that argument been argued a thousand ways by now? | 12:39 |
| kirka | Yes. | 12:39 |
| docl | pretty much. the most convincing form involves breaking out quantum mechanics stuff I barely (if that) understand. | 12:40 |
| kirka | So, I think cell repair machines is a right way to go. | 12:40 |
| kanzure | kirka: you might enjoy reading these.. http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/ | 12:40 |
| kirka | It does not (almost) involve complex philosophy. | 12:40 |
| chris_99 | an uploaded mind is only going to be a rough estimate right? | 12:41 |
| kirka | kanzure That's some big library heh | 12:41 |
| docl | like, qm describes particles as just wave amplitudes, so it doesn't make sense to talk about specific atoms. that's like talking about specific calories or specific degrees of temperature | 12:41 |
| chris_99 | was that to me docl | 12:42 |
| kirka | But why cell reapir machines aren'y enough for you? | 12:42 |
| kanzure | kirka: cell repair machines don't exist yet | 12:43 |
| docl | chris_99: it was to kirka | 12:43 |
| chris_99 | ah | 12:43 |
| kirka | They could be easier to build then theory, algorithms and machines for brain scanning | 12:43 |
| kanzure | kirka: 3scan.com already has a scanning microscope.. | 12:43 |
| docl | kirka: the concern I have is we maybe can't do one and can only do the other. could be a problem if you put all your eggs in one basket. | 12:44 |
| chris_99 | until we get infinite resolution ADCs mind uploading doesn't work imo | 12:44 |
| chris_99 | and even then... | 12:44 |
| kanzure | i think regardless of what your philosophical views are, scanning brains is a useful thing to do | 12:44 |
| kanzure | it's better than letting them rot in a grave | 12:44 |
| docl | chris_99: depends on variables we don't really know yet. could be that all that matters from day to day is the rough connectome. | 12:44 |
| chris_99 | i dunno, what about chaos theory | 12:45 |
| kanzure | .... | 12:45 |
| kirka | Yes, in noninvasive way. And as a person who learned some amount of physics I cannot imagine how this much data could be transferred through electromagnetic field. | 12:45 |
| chris_99 | and how much a single change can effect something like a magnet on a pendulum | 12:46 |
| docl | I agree with kanzure on that. even a rough copy is a historical document of sorts. worth keeping in its own right. | 12:46 |
| chris_99 | maybe, but i don't think it'll ever be an exact 'copy' | 12:46 |
| docl | chris_99: you aren't an exact copy from one moment to another though. heat, brownian motion, chemical reactions... why should this be different? | 12:47 |
| kirka | Trying to infer brain structure by EM radiation around it becomes ill inverse problem, it has multiple solutions. | 12:47 |
| kirka | Yes, it's worth keeping, I agree. | 12:47 |
| docl | there has to be some level at which we are self-repairing and stable otherwise we'd fall apart at the slightest shock. evolution has built us tougher than that. | 12:47 |
| kanzure | docl: or maybe we are good at avoiding shocks | 12:48 |
| kanzure | for instance, have you fallen off a cliff today? | 12:48 |
| chris_99 | docl, we're a transisition of internal states, which imo you can't just copy | 12:48 |
| docl | kanzure: sure on a relative scale. I couldn't handle falling off a cliff. but I've undergone scads of solar radiation without even noticing it. | 12:49 |
| chris_99 | until you can do it on a molecular/quantum level | 12:49 |
| kirka | Well, I'm glad that I have 50+ years to think about it. | 12:49 |
| docl | chris_99: where do you think the empirical line is drawn? if you had a person with exactly the same connections between all of its neurons and very similar biochemistry, do you expect it to have no similar thoughts or many similar thoughts? | 12:50 |
| kirka | Yes, MNT is something necessary for me to live longer than that. That partly explains my interest in it. | 12:51 |
| chris_99 | i think if you could 'copy' using some magic process that replicates the same atoms and quantum states, then yeah, it'd be an exact copy | 12:51 |
| chris_99 | however i think it wouldn't be a true copy in the sense of the word, when you turn it 'on' as its senses would cause an immediate divergance | 12:53 |
| kanzure | so? | 12:53 |
| docl | chris_99: I think you're falling into a quantum woo trap... It seems highly unlikely to me that anything subtler than say a covalent or ionic bond is relevant to the person having the same thoughts. there's too much noise for subtler stuff to survive in a human. | 12:53 |
| kirka | I'm not sure about it. I do not know how brain works. | 12:54 |
| kanzure | brownies: http://garybernhardt.github.com/python-mock-comparison/ | 12:54 |
| chris_99 | even if there are no quantum effects, i still think you'd have to copy down to the atomic level | 12:54 |
| kanzure | chris_99: why? the atomic configuration is constantly discarded | 12:55 |
| docl | chris_99: most of the body is highly repeated biochemical components that are damaged and replaced routinely. | 12:55 |
| kanzure | a nick in a certain protein isn't going to be propogated to the next protein that is built, unless it was of genetic or epigenetic origin | 12:55 |
| chris_99 | subtle variation in voltages etc. in the brain | 12:55 |
| chris_99 | basically i think the synapse weights etc. are highly analogue | 12:56 |
| kirka | Probably chris_99 says that in highly nonlinear system arbitrary small change of input can produce arbitrary large change in output. | 12:56 |
| chris_99 | and the only way to make a true copy is to go to the atomic level | 12:56 |
| chris_99 | yeah exactly kirka | 12:57 |
| kirka | I'm not sure about it. | 12:57 |
| kanzure | chris_99: how do you explain neural networks that operate the same in a petri dish and in a simulation? | 12:57 |
| chris_99 | what about that kanzure? | 12:57 |
| kanzure | do you think it's just magic?? | 12:57 |
| chris_99 | no | 12:57 |
| chris_99 | resolution. | 12:57 |
| chris_99 | the brain is highly analogue | 12:57 |
| kirka | I just think that if cell repair machines will constantly repair molecular machinery of the brain, it will continue to work good. | 12:57 |
| docl | I don't think we're dealing with that kind of system chris_99. people wake up from hypothermia with the same memories. huge change in brain activity there. | 12:58 |
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| chris_99 | it appears to give the same output, but is it giving it the same to the nth decimal place kanzure | 12:58 |
| kanzure | chris_99: i think you should read more neurophysiology papers. | 12:58 |
| kanzure | or do more neurophysiology projects. | 12:58 |
| kanzure | preferably both. | 12:58 |
| docl | sure if you have thought A instead of thought B on a particular day it changes the course of your life. but we don't question the identity of the person because of it. | 12:58 |
| chris_99 | i've simulated neurons before | 12:58 |
| kirka | kanzure btw >neural networks that operate the same in a petri dish and in a simulation looks interesting | 12:58 |
| chris_99 | and done ANNs | 12:58 |
| kanzure | ANNs of course are not what we're talking about - too primitive, etc. | 12:59 |
| chris_99 | i'm not saying they are | 12:59 |
| chris_99 | i've simulated neurons themselves | 12:59 |
| kanzure | you were talking about the atomic composition of neurons | 12:59 |
| kanzure | ANNs do not model that | 12:59 |
| chris_99 | no shit | 12:59 |
| kirka | Heh, russian h+ guys have exactly same arguments. | 12:59 |
| kanzure | oh sorry i read you saying "i'm not sure they are", not "i'm not saying they are". big difference. | 12:59 |
| kanzure | kirka: this is why i ban philosophy | 13:00 |
| kirka | Heh. | 13:00 |
| chris_99 | see what i'm saying is the output of systems in a petri dish may appear the same | 13:00 |
| chris_99 | but they're _far_ too simplistic | 13:00 |
| kanzure | but if chris_99 has a neurophysiology paper that proves or demonstrates his point, then i will look at it | 13:00 |
| kirka | kanzure >neural networks that operate the same in a petri dish and in a simulation | 13:01 |
| chris_99 | i'd like to see a paper that says you can replicate complex organism's brains | 13:01 |
| kirka | I would read about it. | 13:01 |
| kirka | Do you know authors? | 13:02 |
| kanzure | kirka: oh i dunno. lots. berge? | 13:02 |
| kanzure | berger | 13:02 |
| kirka | That's a very cool result, if true. | 13:02 |
| kirka | Our neuron models are still not ideal as i know. | 13:03 |
| kanzure | berger did the petri dishes controlling microsoft flight simulator | 13:03 |
| chris_99 | oh haha | 13:03 |
| kanzure | kirka: markram's neuron database is pretty accurate for the different types | 13:03 |
| chris_99 | so controlling some digital system | 13:03 |
| kanzure | kirka: http://channelpedia.epfl.ch/ionchannels/190 | 13:04 |
| chris_99 | that's the rat brain thing? | 13:04 |
| kanzure | m_alpha = (0.055*(-27-v))/(exp((-27-v)/3.8) - 1) If v neq -27 | 13:04 |
| kanzure | "Neocortical L5PC" | 13:05 |
| kirka | kanzure I have read abou Markram's work, do you know any papers about validation of their models? | 13:05 |
| kanzure | which models :) | 13:05 |
| kirka | Any | 13:05 |
| kirka | Neuron models of course | 13:05 |
| kanzure | dunno. | 13:06 |
| kanzure | http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/A%20neuron%20membrane%20mesh%20representation%20for%20visualization%20of%20electrophysiological%20simulations%20-%20Markram%20-%202012.pdf | 13:06 |
| kanzure | http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/Intense%20world%20syndrome%20-%20an%20alternative%20hypothesis%20for%20autism%20-%20Markram.pdf | 13:06 |
| kanzure | i don't seem to have his other papers on the server at the moment | 13:06 |
| kirka | I will search by myself, thanks | 13:06 |
| kanzure | sorry to disappoint | 13:07 |
| kirka | I didn't even expect that I will find it fast, heh | 13:07 |
| kirka | Your server is cool | 13:08 |
| kanzure | thank you | 13:08 |
| chris_99 | kirka, google 'integrate and fire model' for one | 13:08 |
| kirka | I have read about different (but not most complex) models | 13:09 |
| chris_99 | and look at the nathanshepard pdf | 13:09 |
| chris_99 | it's a slide show with some interesting stuff | 13:09 |
| kirka | But I haven't seen even once about validation | 13:09 |
| kirka | I think that we will have to make MD run of single neuron to validate these models | 13:10 |
| kirka | It's long way into the future | 13:10 |
| kanzure | molecular dynamics is a lot of simulation effort for something that we know to have thresholds already | 13:11 |
| kirka | Yes, but we still don't know what spike encoding is right | 13:11 |
| kirka | There are diffirent hyptheses | 13:12 |
| kirka | *different | 13:12 |
| kirka | Maybe monte carlo simulation is enough, in principle | 13:13 |
| chris_99 | i'm not sure we know exactly how spike encoding works, like you say | 13:13 |
| chris_99 | oh someone linked to to an interesting paper | 13:13 |
| chris_99 | on trying to decode the visual cortex | 13:13 |
| kanzure | http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/Reconstruction%20of%20natural%20scenes%20from%20ensemble%20responses%20in%20cat%20visual%20cortex%20-%20Stanley%20-%201999.pdf | 13:14 |
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| chris_99 | http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/559/ | 13:17 |
| kirka | Interesting, I have read Hubel's book about neural mechanisms of vision, and this is newer research. | 13:18 |
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| kirka | Oh, it's 00:22 already, I'll go to sleep | 13:22 |
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| kanzure | "As a (bloated, inefficient, high-salary) non-profit, you can read JSTOR's financial filings for yourself:" | 13:59 |
| kanzure | http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2011/jstor-where-does-your-money-go/ | 13:59 |
| kanzure | http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2011-July/109234.html | 13:59 |
| kanzure | "They spend ~$4m a year on all computer costs. (To put that in perspective, they spend $1.3m a year on 'travel' & 'conferences, conventions, and meetings'.)" | 13:59 |
| kanzure | "The average academic journal has 25%-30% profit margin (higher than the rest of the publishing industry), but it can take upto 5-7 years for a new STM journal to build enough of a reputation to break even." | 14:03 |
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| kanzure | are weather predictions tested at the weather stations? | 14:25 |
| kanzure | i mean, why don't my weather predictions come with error bars.. | 14:26 |
| chris_99 | i wondered about this kind of thing, they must surely test their predicitions mustn't they | 14:27 |
| kanzure | i'm sure their models are battle-tested, but what about instrument errors? | 14:27 |
| chris_99 | heh nice - http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/areas/seasonal-to-decadal/gpc-outlooks/user-guide/interpret-roc | 14:28 |
| chris_99 | and http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/science/specialist/seasonal/probability/glob_seas_prob_skill.html | 14:29 |
| kanzure | ideally a weather model with the right instruments would be able to predict things like e.g. individual cloud movement to determine when a sensor will be under direct sunlight | 14:29 |
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| chris_99 | yeah | 14:31 |
| chris_99 | i'd like to have a go at creating a really crappy weather predictor from the sat imagery | 14:35 |
| chris_99 | just to see what you can do | 14:35 |
| brownies | i've been wanting to try that too | 14:36 |
| brownies | i was looking at the NWS APIs the other day. they're hilariously bad. | 14:36 |
| brownies | but, they do exist, which i suppose is already pretty impressive for a government agency. | 14:37 |
| chris_99 | heh yeah | 14:37 |
| chris_99 | the UK gov. provide some quite interesting datasets actually | 14:37 |
| chris_99 | and APIs | 14:37 |
| brownies | ah, true, you'd need global data, which ... damn, i don't even know where to begin for that. | 14:49 |
| brownies | would you really have to go to every governments' weather service and look for an API and integrate with it? | 14:50 |
| kanzure | brownies: i don't know why i thought mocks would do what i needed | 14:50 |
| brownies | kanzure: i told you the answer. at this point, i figure you'll eventually read what i wrote and do it -_- | 14:50 |
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| kanzure | brownies: "switch to ruby and async requests"? :) | 14:55 |
| brownies | no, i outlined how to do it regardless of whether the request is sync or async | 14:57 |
| brownies | and the ruby gem was just an example implementation of the approach | 14:57 |
| kanzure | "write a getter function" that's great and all.. but the original problem was i wanted to avoid passing a boolean into the function for "test mode" | 15:01 |
| brownies | if Rails.env.production ... heh. | 15:05 |
| brownies | kanzure: alternately you could write a getter for production and a getter for testing, and your test logic would know to call one instead of the other | 15:05 |
| brownies | kanzure: but, yes, at some fucking level, you are going to have to check to see if you are in testing mode or not -_- | 15:05 |
| kanzure | i'd rather just forcefully inject code from my test method (the one that calls the target code) | 15:06 |
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| eudoxia | oh goodness uploading discussions | 15:50 |
| kanzure | sorry :( | 15:50 |
| * eudoxia *bluarrghhh*s all over the floor | 15:50 | |
| kanzure | are you going to eat that vomit? | 15:50 |
| eudoxia | our robot servants can do that for us | 15:51 |
| eudoxia | I'd just like to answer this: < kirka> So, I think cell repair machines is a right way to go. | 15:52 |
| eudoxia | but with cell repair machines you are still human. with an uploaded brain, you can analyze and modify everything at any arbitrary level of resolution with ultimate precision, something you can't do currently, or in the near future | 15:53 |
| eudoxia | it is the ultimate form of human enhancement because computers allow for unlimited variations | 15:54 |
| * eudoxia shuts up | 15:54 | |
| kanzure | do you feel better? | 15:54 |
| eudoxia | yes | 15:54 |
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| kanzure | brownies: vcr is pretty neat actually. https://github.com/myronmarston/vcr#synopsis | 15:56 |
| kanzure | where does it store the http response? | 15:56 |
| kanzure | python version was updated "18 minutes ago".. hrm. https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy | 15:59 |
| brownies | kanzure: yup. oh, didn't know they had a python version... that's cool. | 16:18 |
| brownies | kanzure: hilariously, we have your own VCR-like system with FakeWeb. i didn't know VCR existed when we were building out our infrastructure. | 16:19 |
| brownies | kanzure: i suppose that's another option btw, totally decoupled from the particulars of when/where you call the HTTP thing. | 16:19 |
| brownies | kanzure: when you enter testing mode, you can just set up an app-wide block on all external HTTP requests, and then instead spoof a response based on the URL of any outgoing requests your app makes. | 16:19 |
| kanzure | i store some sample html files in tests/samples/, it looks like vcr just uses a custom yaml format for storing that stuff | 16:27 |
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| kanzure | guerrilla open access manifesto http://pastebin.com/cefxMVAy | 17:15 |
| kanzure | "Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier." | 17:15 |
| kanzure | "There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost." | 17:15 |
| kanzure | "That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable." | 17:15 |
| kanzure | "“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal — there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back." | 17:16 |
| kanzure | "Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends" | 17:16 |
| kanzure | "Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends." | 17:16 |
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| kanzure | "But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy." | 17:16 |
| kanzure | "Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies." | 17:16 |
| kanzure | "There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture." | 17:16 |
| kanzure | "We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access." | 17:16 |
| kanzure | "With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us? Aaron Swartz July 2008, Eremo, Italy" | 17:16 |
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| skorket | I'm in | 17:42 |
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| roksprok | so guy assembling his ycombinator pitch next to me 'hey bro send me your bio and competitive analysis...remember we need a pic of a hot girl like...partying or something' | 20:08 |
| brownies | o.O | 20:13 |
| brownies | truly he is a marketing genius | 20:13 |
| roksprok | i know i'm going to ask him if i can be employee #1 | 20:13 |
| roksprok | paid in equity | 20:14 |
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| Mokbortolan_1 | let me play you the song of my people | 20:41 |
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| delinquentme | i lik Mokbortolan_1 | 20:49 |
| AdrienG | hi delinquentme | 20:54 |
| AdrienG | whats the best way to synth peptides? | 20:55 |
| delinquentme | AdrienG, Howdahhh | 20:55 |
| AdrienG | pls suggest | 20:55 |
| delinquentme | AdrienG, chemistry. | 20:55 |
| delinquentme | lol | 20:55 |
| delinquentme | IDK man :D | 20:56 |
| delinquentme | you've got to have a particular peptide you're after no? | 20:56 |
| yashgaroth | what size of peptide | 20:57 |
| AdrienG | Тrр-Аlа-Gly-Gly-Asp-Ala-Ser-Gly-Glu. | 20:58 |
| yashgaroth | Delta sleep-inducing peptide | 20:59 |
| yashgaroth | you could go with either chemical synthesis, but I'd recommend e.coli production | 21:00 |
| AdrienG | Yes. | 21:00 |
| AdrienG | yashgaroth: how do i mod e.coli | 21:00 |
| yashgaroth | genetic engineering | 21:00 |
| AdrienG | sounds hard | 21:01 |
| yashgaroth | mhm | 21:01 |
| yashgaroth | to be fair though, it's not as hard as injecting it into your brain | 21:02 |
| AdrienG | you just have to administer it sub-q. | 21:05 |
| AdrienG | with an insulin pen. | 21:05 |
| AdrienG | once a day. | 21:05 |
| AdrienG | peanuts | 21:05 |
| yashgaroth | k I'll leave that stuff to you then | 21:06 |
| yashgaroth | man, with how obviously fake all these "peptide suppliers" are on the bodybuilding forums, there's a remarkable amount of placebo effect | 21:09 |
| AdrienG | what makes yuo think they are fake | 21:11 |
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| yashgaroth | http://www.cemproducts.com/peptides/dsip-5mg.html has 5 milligrams for $37 which is far below the cost of a legit product | 21:11 |
| chevbird | if they have QC metrics on the site i wouldnt worry about it | 21:13 |
| chevbird | but i doubt they do | 21:13 |
| yashgaroth | they never do | 21:13 |
| chevbird | kids today... | 21:14 |
| yashgaroth | "all our products are totally legit" is about as QC as they get | 21:14 |
| chevbird | totally | 21:14 |
| yashgaroth | it probably works in the sense that they put in some cheap chinese sleep drug or something, because bodybuilders don't have mass spectrometers | 21:15 |
| chevbird | just mass | 21:15 |
| yashgaroth | ...heh | 21:16 |
| yashgaroth | I'm stealing that one | 21:16 |
| AdrienG | when we will finally have chemical printers:< | 21:29 |
| AdrienG | just print whatever small molecule at home | 21:29 |
| yashgaroth | the drexler model 1 should be out in about 50 years | 21:29 |
| AdrienG | :< | 21:30 |
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| AdrienG | yashgaroth: melanotan is clearly legit on many sites | 21:40 |
| AdrienG | its effects are very noticable. | 21:40 |
| AdrienG | and its a far more complex molecule. | 21:40 |
| yashgaroth | ehhhh | 21:43 |
| yashgaroth | hey I'm not stopping you from throwing your money at some site | 21:45 |
| yashgaroth | oh hey peptide synthesis is cheaper than I thought | 21:48 |
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| yashgaroth | ok back to your original question, it would be far easier to pay a service to make it for you unless you need grams of it | 21:50 |
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| nmz787 | grams of what? | 22:05 |
| nmz787 | I will check logs | 22:05 |
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| yashgaroth | he wants a short peptide, I was surprised to learn how cheap they actually are | 22:06 |
| nmz787 | kanzure: "You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier." | 22:06 |
| nmz787 | amounts of what though? | 22:06 |
| nmz787 | how much? | 22:06 |
| nmz787 | wait | 22:06 |
| yashgaroth | oh, delta sleep-inducing peptide I think | 22:06 |
| yashgaroth | logs consist of an hour of me being dumb if you wanna read 'em | 22:06 |
| nmz787 | err | 22:06 |
| nmz787 | not now | 22:06 |
| nmz787 | well you didnt ramble too long | 22:09 |
| nmz787 | yashgaroth: ^ | 22:09 |
| yashgaroth | heh | 22:09 |
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| yashgaroth | I'd no idea peptide synth was like 1000x cheaper than dna synth | 22:10 |
| nmz787 | how much for a gram of protein? | 22:12 |
| nmz787 | link?? | 22:12 |
| nmz787 | oh 5mg | 22:12 |
| nmz787 | 37 | 22:12 |
| nmz787 | $ | 22:12 |
| nmz787 | hmm | 22:12 |
| yashgaroth | admittedly it's only good up to maybe 30 aa's, but that's most peptide hormones | 22:13 |
| nmz787 | oh wait | 22:13 |
| nmz787 | http://www.cemproducts.com/peptides/dsip-5mg.html | 22:13 |
| nmz787 | isnt it | 22:13 |
| yashgaroth | http://www.genscript.com/peptide.html | 22:14 |
| nmz787 | oh | 22:14 |
| nmz787 | you cant do proteins? | 22:14 |
| nmz787 | what does a place like you work for charge? | 22:15 |
| nmz787 | where can i order a protein, rather than a gene? | 22:15 |
| yashgaroth | it gets exponentially harder the longer the protein is | 22:15 |
| nmz787 | it says up to 200 | 22:15 |
| yashgaroth | not for that low low price though | 22:16 |
| nmz787 | yeah it doesnt list pricing for the higher ones | 22:17 |
| yashgaroth | we're at maybe $ten thousand a gram for GMP grade with e.coli synthesis, though it varies and that's at multi-gram production batches | 22:17 |
| nmz787 | hmm | 22:18 |
| kanzure | i hate cable modems | 22:19 |
| kanzure | i hate tethering apps. if the app is dead, i shouldn't have other devices on my network connected to the interwebs. | 22:19 |
| yashgaroth | like we're growing one that's 70-80 aa's long because it becomes cheaper than synth at that length | 22:19 |
| nmz787 | ahh | 22:22 |
| yashgaroth | at least for the required quality levels, since it's extremely hard to separate a peptide from one that's 1-2 aa's shorter and the FDA ain't having no mixed formulation | 22:22 |
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| roksprok | how do you grow a peptide? add aa's one at a time and wash in between? | 22:23 |
| yashgaroth | pretty much | 22:23 |
| kanzure | long-term link for that pastebin link i dropped earlier.. http://p2pfoundation.net/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto | 22:24 |
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| kanzure | "Greg Maxwell just released 33GB of JSTOR scientific papers via The Pirate Bay because of the indictment against Aaron." | 22:35 |
| kanzure | https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro | 22:35 |
| kanzure | 31 seeders | 22:36 |
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| skorket | adc conversion done, USB communication done, now onto the next phase | 22:53 |
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| Mokbortolan_ | ??? | 23:00 |
| Mokbortolan_ | and then, profit | 23:00 |
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