2012-10-03.log

--- Log opened Wed Oct 03 00:00:11 2012
--- Day changed Wed Oct 03 2012
nmz787i've got a couple scopes, one is fluorescent capable... and a sequencing power supply, and some glassware that might be contaminated with X unknown chemical(s) (saved it from school's trash)00:00
nmz787BioGuy: just west of forest park00:00
BioGuybkero: Well really the only reason I have things set up at BrainSilo is for the space. There's not really anyone there I can talk bio with. There's also some logistics problems with trying to set something up there00:01
bkerooh?00:02
nmz787i would want a small cleanroom (HEPA air), something maybe 6'x6' or 8'x8'00:02
nmz787it would be nice for cultures and optics, microfluidics (dust is a blockage)00:02
nmz787or at least a room with a door, no carpet, and a clean air hood (could totally be DIY)00:03
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BioGuyI actually don't think it would be that difficult to build your own culture hood and chemical hood - as long as someone knows a little bit about welding.00:06
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nmz7872I've seen some hoods that were just wood and/or plastic00:08
nmz7872they polyurethaned the wood inner surfaces several times00:08
nmz7872well anyway i need to sleep00:08
nmz7872good talking to you00:08
BioGuyYou too, have a good one and I'm looking forward to meeting you when you get down here00:09
nmz7872I probably won't be around too often the next few weeks with all the moving00:09
nmz7872(in here)00:09
nmz7872but I usually am otherwise00:09
nmz7872ok, ttyl folks00:09
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BioGuybkero Whats your background?00:10
BioGuyI have to admit I'm really suprised to find all the people here near the Portland area00:11
bkeroBioGuy: Open source software, some genomics, OpenEEG, electronics and hardware (particularly electric vehicles)00:12
BioGuyCool! it would be really interesting getting a bunch of people together with such different backgrounds00:14
brownieselectric vehicles eh?00:14
BioGuybkero: What kind of open source software?00:15
bkeroBioGuy: I used to be a sysadmin for the OSU Open Source Lab.  I'm currently a sysadmin at Mozilla.00:16
bkeroName some open source projects and I've probably had my hand in it at one point or another.00:16
BioGuyWell what I've really been wondering lately is how open source communities work, with no set leader, where anyone can contribute, and a meritocracy emerges without ever devolving into anarchy.00:19
BioGuySomeone gave me some info earlier which I should really read a bit.00:20
BioGuyAnyways I should hit the hay - you said your schedule is pretty open Thursday?00:21
bkeroRead about the history of Anonymous.00:21
bkeroHrm, maybe.00:21
BioGuyget back to me with what your schedule looks like later this week or next week. Talk to you later00:22
bkerookay00:26
bkeroI'm free this weekend00:26
bkerosake is next weekend apparently00:26
BioGuyI just threw together a quick google group for getting people together in and around portland: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdx-diybioscitechthink00:50
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bkerolol03:38
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@kanzurehttps://github.com/AveryLouie/OSH-Designs06:15
@kanzurelooks like an atmega32u4 breakout board06:15
@kanzureoh noes the bom is a pdf?06:15
@kanzurekirka: http://www.homolog.us/blogs/2012/09/18/rosalind-project-at-algorithmic-biology-laboratory-st-petersburg/06:17
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kanzurewhere is superkuh?07:09
archelskanzure: What format should a BOM be in, plaintext?07:25
kanzuresomething computer parsable07:27
kanzureand something human readable07:27
archelscsv07:27
kanzurei would take csv over pdf, sure07:27
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kanzurehah08:38
kanzureso avery replies to me "actually, that git repo is now over here ( https://github.com/AveryLouie/BlogDocs ). the other one was from before i knew how to git properly."08:38
kanzurebut if you check that repo, it just has a bunch of .tar.gz files..08:38
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BioGuyKanzure, you still around?11:10
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BioGuyKanzure wiggle waggle11:16
kanzureBioGuy: sup?11:20
BioGuyHey! I accepted your member request for the google groups page I set up last night. If you see any of the portland people around later will you give them a heads up for me?11:21
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kanzureBioGuy: okay.11:25
kanzureBioGuy: i highly recommend just posting to the main diybio group. it has much more visibility.11:25
nmz787so it seems cclive is broken for me11:26
nmz787what is the other youtube downloader for shell?11:27
kanzureyoutube-dl11:27
nmz787unable to download video11:29
kanzuredid you upgrade youtube-dl?11:29
nmz787umm11:29
nmz787i apt-got it11:29
nmz787http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nqHOnVTxJE11:29
kanzurethe debian package repository has a super old version11:29
kanzurehttps://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl11:29
nmz787what is an sdx file?11:30
jrayhawkyeah, youtube broke about a five days ago and got fixed three days ago; you'd need to upgrade libquvi-scripts11:31
gnushadiyhpluswiki.git: 2fddd1b add portland group details to diybio/groups.mdwn11:31
jrayhawksudo apt-get install file; file *.sdx11:31
nmz787so how do i update libquivo11:31
nmz787or whatever it is11:32
nmz787that is what dies11:32
nmz787i git cloned the git clone git://repo.or.cz/libquvi-scripts.git 11:32
kanzuresudo youtube-dl --update11:33
kanzurei have no idea what --update actually does so it might be dangerous11:33
nmz787ahh the git youtube-dl is working out-of-rep11:34
nmz787repo11:34
kanzurehaving a program update itself is very very non-standard and breaky.11:34
jrayhawkadd wheezy to /etc/apt/sources.list , pin whatever release you want by adding APT::Default-Release "squeeze"; (or what have you) to /etc/apt/apt.conf, apt-get update; apt-get install -t wheezy libquvi-scripts clive11:34
kanzureclive or cclive?11:34
jrayhawkwhichever11:34
jrayhawkthey both use quvi these days11:34
kanzurei don't use it, i don't know if one is a typo11:34
kanzureoh okay.11:34
BioGuynmz787 and jrayhawk I set up a google group last night for getting people together in the Portland area. Here's the link: http://goo.gl/3RNQ111:41
BioGuyCouln't help over hear all the linux talk. Im curious what terminal emulator do you guys use and do you use a teminal based irc client?11:43
jrayhawkrxvt-unicode (mostly due to inertia), tmux+irssi on a remote server11:43
kanzurethere are some irc client suggestions here http://diyhpl.us/wiki/hplusroadmap11:44
jrayhawkwe can probably add you to gnusha.org if you want a persistent client11:44
jrayhawkwe'd just need a public key out of you11:44
jrayhawk<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html><head> <title>PDX DiyBioSciTechThink - Google Groups</title> <link rel="canonical" href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pdx-diybioscitechthink"></head> <body> <h2>PDX DiyBioSciTechThink</h2> <ul></ul> <table border="0" cellspacing="0"></table> </body></html>11:47
jrayhawkgosh, what a helpful page, thank you google11:47
jrayhawkis there like an rss feed or something11:47
jrayhawkso i don't have to interact with this retarded google shit11:47
kanzureit's a mailing ilst11:47
kanzurejust email pdx-diybioscitechthink+subscribe@googlegroups.com11:47
kanzureor http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-diybioscitechthink/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml11:48
kanzureexample: https://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml11:48
jrayhawkhuzzah, thank you bryan11:48
kanzuregoogle groups really fucked up their url structure.11:49
jrayhawkapparently i am not allowed to sign up over smtp, so RSS it is!11:50
kanzurewut.. no email sign up anymore?11:50
jrayhawkoh, no, i just misread a thing, nevermind11:51
kanzurejrayhawk: you probably want rss_v2_0_msgs.xml?num=5011:51
nmz787BioGuy: in the beginning i think any announcements should be sent to the main diybio google group, since there could be lurkers signed up there that wouldn't otherwise know of this new group11:52
jrayhawkcrosspost everywhere, everytime11:53
jrayhawkMORE CROSSPOSTING11:53
kanzurei am the crossposting master11:53
kanzureyou see those recent open hardware threads? that's like ten mailing lists :(11:53
BioGuyYa thats what Kanzure suggested too, sounds good11:54
kanzurereprap-dev, hackerspaces, oshwa, oshug, openmanufacturing, diybio, probably a few i'm forgetting.11:54
kanzurepeople need to stop making splinter groups. it's not like it's going to decrease my crossposting frequency.11:54
jrayhawkno, MORE11:54
kanzureBioGuy: congrats, you're listed now.. http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/groups11:55
BioGuyVery cool! Need to hurry up and put a welcome message, etc on the groups page now11:57
jrayhawki think i have access to a wetlab11:58
jrayhawki haven't looked into the details, though11:58
* BioGuy nudges jrayhawk12:00
BioGuyAccess to a wet lab?12:00
jrayhawki will take that as a request to get more details12:01
BioGuyYup! I can do an excited dance if you would like too.12:04
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BioGuykanzure: I really like the diyhpl.us site - Lots of good resources12:12
kanzurewell, feel free to edit it12:12
kanzurealso, http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ has some things like the biology/ DNA/ longevity/ nanotech/ neuro/ microfluidics/ folders.12:13
BioGuyI just registered. I think I have some useful things to add12:13
BioGuykanzure I noticed you had some nice pdf versions of books - how did you get those?12:13
kanzurei absorbed them in my sleep, woke up and typed them out.12:14
BioGuyNice! I'm sure this is a long shot but I dont suppose you have your hands on a pdf version of Immunobiology Janeway 8th edition?12:16
BioGuy...or any other edition for that matter12:17
jrayhawkI don't see it in my 5500 book bio collection12:18
jrayhawkoh wait, i am lying12:19
jrayhawk5th edition12:19
kanzurei will in about 7 minutes.12:20
jrayhawkdo you have a later edition12:20
jrayhawkerr, rather, are you getting a later edition12:20
kanzurei'm not really sure. the title says 5 but the cover says 6.12:21
BioGuyI would love to get my hands on a copy of that, even just the 5th/6th edition12:23
jrayhawkeh, i guess both will be fine12:23
jrayhawkTHE MORE THE MERRIER12:23
kanzureit's really amusing how most biology books are horribly out of date12:24
kanzureeven in school my "new" textbooks (written just months before i got them) were completely oblivious about bioinformatics or arguably the stuff that we know the most about12:24
kanzureor archae gets like a one paragraph section in the back of the book.12:25
kanzuremeanwhile, the complicated definition of "CONSUMER" and "PRODUCER" gets 20 pages of bird poop pictures.12:25
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BioGuyThanks you guys! You all just made me really happy!12:28
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kanzureyou are easy to please12:29
kanzureBioGuy: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/books/Immunobiology%20Interactive%20-%20Janeway.pdf12:30
kanzurelooks like 5th to me.12:32
BioGuyGotta run, talk to you guys later and thanks for the goodies!12:35
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BioGuyOh...before I go I wanted to see if any of you knew about bioclipse.net12:35
kanzurehah based on eclipse12:37
kanzurewell i guess if you're going to do an IDE, might as well use eclipse..12:37
kanzurelooks like it hasn't been updated in a few years12:37
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kanzure"Under the agency’s procedures, the box should not have been opened without knowledge of a NASA scientist who is responsible for guarding Mars against contamination from Earth. But Planetary Protection Officer Catharine Conley wasn’t consulted."12:42
kanzureplanetary protection officer? damn where do i get a fancy title like that12:43
kanzure"GUARDIAN OF EARTH"12:43
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BioGuyLOL gotta run talk to you all later12:44
brownieskanzure: takes about $100 to file an LLC and call yourself whatever you damn well please12:51
brownies"yea, i'm the Grand Emperor of the Planetary Guardians Alliance... LLC"12:52
Urchinthe local transhumanist (dis)organisation in my country has interesting titles for leadership12:54
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kanzurebrownies: yes except her opinion is supposed to matter or influence what goes on mars, presumably12:57
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kanzureis there a good "unidentified things on mars" blog?13:06
kanzureor even better, one for "things that were once unidentified, but are now known"?13:09
UrchinI hope you're not asking about crackpot blogs13:11
kanzureno13:11
brownieskanzure: what was that quote from anyway? what box are you talking about?13:11
Urchinsorry, don't know any13:12
kanzurebrownies: something about a drill bit. it was an awful news site, so i refuse to link to it. there might be something from pbs about it.13:12
brownies...ok13:13
brownieswell, whatever the deal is, it's basically impossible that there's any part of anything on Mars where only 1 person was responsible for it13:13
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kanzuresuperkuh: welcome back13:50
superkuhHello.13:50
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kanzure"My favourite is Biohacking Sydney but gotta say that the [venomous] kangaroo one is quite brilliant."14:56
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kanzurepic-my-raspberry: hi16:28
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skorketevening all17:00
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kanzurehttp://stepcode.org/mw/index.php/BRL-CAD_patches19:57
BioGuyKanzure: whats that link you just posted?20:03
kanzurethe military's changes to SCL are being merged into the upstream SCL from mpictor20:04
BioGuyHuh?20:07
kanzureNIST dropped SCL development a long, long time ago20:08
kanzureArmy Material Command integrated it into BRL-CAD and had made some improvements20:09
kanzurempictor took the NIST SCL version and started improving it in the past year-ish20:09
kanzureso now BRL-CAD's version of SCL is being merged in20:09
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kanzureoh wtf it's actually spelled Army Materiel Command20:09
yashgarothoui20:10
kanzure"The U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) is the primary provider of materiel to the United States Army. The Command's mission includes the research & development of weapons systems as well as maintenance and parts distribution."20:10
BioGuyI still dont understand what your talking about. Anyone else?20:11
kanzurehttp://brlcad.org/20:11
BioGuyBRL-CAD, SCL, NIST, mpictor - just fell into an ocean of acronyms :P20:11
kanzureit's open source CAD20:11
kanzureNIST is the government arm that measures things and makes up standards20:12
BioGuyoooh! I do know what CAD is20:12
BioGuyNational <blanks> Standards <something>?20:12
kanzureSCL is Step Class Library.. it's an implementation of ISO 10303 that most CAD software supports 'cept open source stuff because SCL has historically not been so great20:12
kanzurehttp://nist.gov/20:13
kanzureit implements the .step file format20:14
BioGuyBRL-CAD is the open source CAD software?20:16
kanzureyes20:16
BioGuySo NIST developed SCL and AMC took over, now mpictor started working on the original NIST SCL?20:18
kanzureBRLCAD didn't take over.. they just used it and modified it as they went.20:19
BioGuyNow the AMC verision of SCL and mpictor's changes are being merged for BRL-CAD?20:20
kanzurei think one of the nist.gov guys endorsed mpictor's version informally though, so it's basically "official"20:20
kanzurecorrect. someone is manually reviewing 400 commits and resolving the differences.20:20
BioGuySo thats something I wonder about open source stuff. Lets say theres some kind of function in one mpictor's code and another in the AMC version. They both generally have the same purpose but go about getting from point A to B differently. How and who decides which code stays?20:23
kanzurein this case it's mostly bug fixes and makefile cruft20:24
kanzureplus, the majority of these tools are generated from compiler comiplers20:24
kanzure*compiler comiplers20:24
kanzurehrm.. *compiler compilers20:24
kanzureanyway, there's rarely a situation where that happens. and when it does happen, it's whoever manages the repository, or the cleanest version, or the version that actually works and sucks less.20:25
kanzurewhy not submit some code to biopython or something and find out?20:26
ParahSailin_lol didnt know you were op in #lesswrong20:27
kanzureor pick a project here https://github.com/kanzure and go to issues section and pick something to work on20:27
kanzureParahSailin_: it's just one more reason for me to hate myself20:27
BioGuyI actually haven't worked with BioPython yet, and am stil teaching myself Python. I would really like to see what its like to work on an open source project though. Thats a good idea with BioPython20:28
skorketwhat is #lesswrong?20:29
kanzureskorket: pain and suffering. never go there.20:29
kanzureBioGuy: well, here are some "open problems" in biopython https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/biopython/issues20:29
ParahSailin_hpmor.com20:29
ParahSailin_biopython is kinda shitty20:30
BioGuyI actually feel like I need a Python related book that reads less like a technical manual and is focussed around actually making something, or has exercises or something, rather than just descriptions of objects and methods with some code snippets here and there20:30
kanzureParahSailin_: compared to what? bioperl?20:30
ParahSailin_i rewrote a lot of it in cython20:30
kanzureParahSailin_: did you contribute it?20:30
ParahSailin_nah, not yet20:30
kanzureParahSailin_: you should do that..20:30
kanzureunpublished code is worse than unwritten code20:31
ParahSailin_those guys probably not into arcane micro-optimizations20:31
kanzurehttps://github.com/biopython/biopython20:31
kanzureBioGuy: well, i say pick a hobby to learn python with. bioinformatics is one option. a lot of people pick web development. i also suggest pokemon rom hacking :p20:32
ParahSailin_i use haskell now for when i need stuff to run fast20:32
kanzureoh geeze "ntil late September 2009, Biopython source code was kept in CVS running on the OBF servers."20:33
kanzureawful.20:33
BioGuyParahSailin_ I haven't directly used it yet. But, it seems to have been very useful in this case study: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0803.1838.pdf20:35
ParahSailin_python is really useful when i just have to hack up something fast without time to think it through20:36
BioGuy"unpublished code is worse than unwritten code" - I like that!20:37
ParahSailin_some of my colleagues write embarrassingly shitty python20:38
ParahSailin_like, not knowing about iterators, map, zip etc20:38
kanzureby colleagues do you mean.. the people that hired you?20:39
ParahSailin_coworkers20:39
kanzureyikes.20:39
browniesthe homeless people outside his office20:39
browniesoh, damn. that's even worse.20:39
kanzurewell they should be homeless if they can't map or __iter__ or w/e20:39
BioGuyDo you all use Python 2.7x or 3.x?20:40
kanzurei use 2.6 and 2.7, but i have nothing against 3.220:40
ParahSailin_like this guy types out a reverse complement procedure anew in like every script he makes20:40
kanzure3.2 even includes virtualenvs. finally.20:40
kanzureParahSailin_: are you forcing them to make python eggs out of all this stuff?20:40
ParahSailin_no20:41
kanzureeh, you should. otherwise it will become unusable in a few months/year.20:41
ParahSailin_they wouldnt know what python eggs is20:41
kanzurepython eggs and modules are the only things that make large code bases maintainable20:41
ParahSailin_our shit is not maintainable20:41
kanzurei have no idea how your company functions withou-- oh okay20:41
ParahSailin_i re-do significant amounts whenever our pipeline fucks up or needs new functionality20:42
kanzurelet me guess.. no unit tests?20:42
BioGuyI've been learning 2.7x just because thats what all the scripts were written in when I had my internship. I think the most annoying thing was not being able to change a dictionary while iterating through it, but in a nested loop its REALLY slow if you use something like aDict.keys() - so I ended up using aDict.items()20:43
ParahSailin_i didnt think i was very much good at programming before this job20:43
ParahSailin_then i see how little it takes to actually get paid to do it20:43
kanzureyeah, suddenly 200k/year sounds justifiable huh20:43
ParahSailin_im scared of 3.220:43
kanzurepeople who spend 8 weeks learning how to configure rails are getting $80k/year salaries. and that's just for knowhing how to edit some yaml files.20:44
kanzure*knowing20:44
kanzure(ok i'm exaggerating; they probably know enough ruby to not fail catastrophically)20:44
ParahSailin_you know any erlang or haskell gigs?20:45
kanzurebrownies might have an erlang gig for you; i have no idea if he ended up using erlang or not20:45
kanzurebrownies: ping?20:45
BioGuyParahSailin_ with my little stint at the Oregon National Primate Center it was kind of a nightmare. Sadly I was the one who knew the most about Python (I had to teach myself what I could in about 2 weeks) and there were about 34 scripts - many of which defined the same functions over and over, no repository, not on a network drive.20:45
ParahSailin_im quite happy where i am, but i'd like to have some side consulting money20:46
kanzureeww don't use a network drive :P20:46
kanzurei'm presently fixing an error in a python project,20:47
kanzure"InterfaceError: (InterfaceError) Error binding parameter 17 - probably unsupported type."20:47
kanzurewhat an unhelpful error message.20:47
BioGuyJust a network drive with no repository would have been better than having copies of code on several different computers and the senseless emailing and usb drive swapping20:48
ParahSailin_the three servers at work have different copies of all the scripts, different python versions too20:48
brownieskanzure: hi?20:48
BioGuyHow long have you lot been programming in Python?20:48
kanzuremany years.20:50
BioGuy...Hey! That open spectrophotometer project would be right up my alley20:50
kanzurewhat is a national primate center?20:50
kanzureBioGuy: yeah, we have some other projects kicking around.. http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/diytranshuman_projects.v4.html20:51
kanzureBioGuy: in particular when nmz787 settles down we'll be kicking the dna synthesis project into higher-gear.20:51
BioGuyThere's several national primate research centers across the US. One of them is in Hillsboro and affiliated with Oregon Health Science University. Thats the one I interned at.20:52
kanzureyes but what is it20:53
kanzuredo i buy a monkey and ship it there?20:53
BioGuy...as in DIY synthesis?20:54
kanzureas in a machine to do it, yes.20:54
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us/~bryan/nucleic/fbi-diybio-dna-v1.pdf20:54
BioGuyLOL, they do basic research. Genetics, neuroscience, epigenetics, developmental biology, etc20:55
kanzureso.. they would rent me a monkey?20:55
BioGuy...create animal models of disease, ie research with SIV20:55
BioGuyNah...besides you would have a good chance of contracting herpes B -very bad20:56
skorketkanzure, the price associated with each of those projects is the target price?20:56
kanzureskorket: eh, it's the estimated amount of funding required to get somewhere, assuming that we have free labor ;)20:57
kanzureor just have to pay living expenses or something20:57
skorketkanzure, this is your project list or someone elses?20:58
kanzurei think i typed it up a few years ago20:59
kanzuresomeone asked me what was bouncing around in my head, so i puked that up.20:59
kanzurea better version could probably be written21:01
kanzurei'd like to do some reasonable estimates for protein production and purification (like taq)21:01
BioGuyYou know, just a guess, but by looking at that graph ($/base sequencing, gene synthesis, short oligo) it looks like the corporate world have all been piling into sequencing, while synthesis is probably a relatively uncompetetive space as far as innovation is concerned.21:04
kanzuresynthesis is highly competitive21:04
kanzurethe academic microfluidic reactors have synthesis down very cheaply, except nobody has got it to work outside academia21:04
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kanzurethe synthesis companies are already fighting tooth-and-nail on their margins-- i don't think "synthesis as a service" is a good business to be in21:05
BioGuyIf they can do it can be done so cheaply now then is that graph out of date?21:05
kanzurei think if you want to make money from synthesis, then you should build and sell synthesizers21:05
kanzureno, the graph is for what you can order21:05
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kanzurei can't call up george church and be like "yo bitch, gimme a printout of this genome"21:06
kanzure(george is one of the guys with a microfluidic dna synthesizer)21:06
BioGuyOh no, I didn't mean it was uncompetetive in terms of offering services with already existing technologies - I meant more along the lines of developing new technologies and techniques to bring down cost21:06
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BioGuySo why haven't microfluidic dna synthesizers made it into the private sector?21:07
kanzurei'm not sure, btu i don't think the synthesis companies are exactly "rolling in cash"21:07
kanzurebecause they just buy dna synthesizers21:07
kanzuremostly refurbished dna synthesizers. idt is different because they buy your dna synthesizers up, but they also have this guy on staff that just builds synthesizers too.21:07
kanzuremost of the synthesizers are old crap that flooded the market in the 80s21:08
kanzureor 90s21:08
kanzureand now most of the dna synthesizer manufacturers have been bought, sold, merged, or sued into oblivion21:08
BioGuySo ya, like I said then, it looks like in terms of R&D the private sector is only competing in terms of sequencing innovation - while there doesn't seem to be much private sector R&D in synthesis. Seems to be a pretty uncompetitive space in that regards.21:10
BioGuyIn terms of innovation to the next level, not market buying and selling21:10
kanzurethere's a few companies that are doing "next generation" dna synthesis, like gen9 or cambrian genomics21:11
BioGuyEither of those associated with Church?21:11
kanzurei think both of them are21:12
kanzuregeorge has his hands in everything21:12
kanzurealso check the /topic21:12
BioGuyLOL - $40 million per genome isn't that useful to me,21:14
BioGuybut thanks Craig21:14
kanzureBioGuy: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/DNA/21:14
kanzureBioGuy: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/microfluidics/synthesis/21:14
kanzureBioGuy: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/dna-synthesis.html21:14
BioGuyThough, if you wanted to synthesize a genome or a gene - why not just use PCR and get the organism?21:14
kanzurebecause your genome might not exist yet21:15
kanzureand pcr takes forever. you have to go find a fucking specimen and figure out protocols for cultivation and other shit..21:15
kanzureand fuck ordering plasmids. i just want to print out the dna that i need.21:15
BioGuyPCR doesn't take long...TAQ polymerase isn't incredibly fast but there are faster DNA polymerases out there. But, even with TAQ your really only looking at about 24 hours to amplify up a bacterial genome21:17
yashgarothwe're not talking about copying genomes...if you want to do that, just add some media and wait 20 minutes21:18
kanzureno i don't mean taq is slow. i mean the whole process of finding the specimens, incubation, dna isolation, optimizing your pcr reaction, etc. etc.21:18
kanzureall this just to get a gene? why not just synthesize the gene in the first place? that's what i really wanted to do to begin with.21:18
BioGuyWell if I wanted to amplify the genome of X bacteria. I would just transform it with a selectable marker gene (lets say ampicillin) - grow it up with some generic LB agar + amp, make a PCR master mix with primers, heat cells to lyse, thermocyle, done21:20
BioGuyack... you type too fast LOL21:21
kanzureyes http://www.seanwrona.com/typeracer/profile.php?username=kanzure21:22
kanzureamplifying genomes isn't the goal of dna synthesis. synthesizing new sequences is the goal.21:23
BioGuyI suppose, though I'm not entirely sure how useful it would be (I'm not saying it isnt though) to sythesize new genes when we don't even understand how proteins fold for specific functions yet. Until we can design our own proteins how useful is custom gene synthesis?21:24
kanzurebecause we can just look up stuff on the ncbi databases for known genes21:25
kanzureadditionally, you can do automation to search through a space of possible sequences once you know the general area that you want21:25
kanzurethen you just pump out your little organisms and test them in whatever way you were going to.21:26
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BioGuyOk I see where your going with this. Your thinking along the lines of creating genomes from genes stemming from maybe 100 different organisms21:29
kanzureeh maybe... i think one gene at a time is a good goal :)21:29
kanzure100s at a time becomes very hard to debug/test21:29
BioGuyIf your just interested in one gene at a time then I still don't quite get why you wouldn't want to just use PCR. Its cheap, easy to do, and OK it takes a bit of time...but maybe about a week.21:31
BioGuyfrom start to finish21:31
BioGuyculturing and all that jazz21:31
kanzurewhat do you consider "start" to be? collecting soil samples or w/e?21:32
BioGuyOnce you know the organism  your gene is in I would just order it from atcc.org21:34
kanzurei'm pretty sure synthesis takes less time than delivery21:35
kanzurealso: do they ship to non-institutions?21:35
kanzureor do i have to setup fake businesses21:35
BioGuyIm sure you would...but you cant order basic life science/chemical reagents anyways as an individual. I've tried.21:36
kanzureyeah, which is why we should be doing taq production21:36
BioGuyEven then you still need reagents for purification21:36
kanzureyes, i know21:36
kanzurei can't just wave my dick and make all the problems go away21:36
BioGuyNo, you hit on a good point though --- I think thats the next biggest hurdle that needs to be overcome is to make reagents accessible to the DIY community I think thats the biggest bottleneck.21:37
kanzurei think the biggest bottleneck is technical expertise. we keep getting idiots coming in here telling us that they don't want to read books, but they want to make their cats glow or shit. i hate glowcats.21:39
BioGuySome group like us set up a business or non-profit and start selling to the DIY community21:39
yashgarothebay is pretty well stocked, I've found21:39
kanzurestocked with technical expertise?21:39
yashgarothno but we have that already21:39
yashgarothI meant chemicals21:39
foucistkanzure: sudo make me a glowcat21:40
* BioGuy nods to yashgaroth21:40
kanzurefoucist: die in a fire21:40
yashgarothand purification of taq is pretty easy if it's tagged, that's like 5 reagents you need and they're not particularly exotic21:40
BioGuyBut ok...try looking for something specific though on ebay - ACS reagent grade lithium borate21:40
kanzureBioGuy: you're not going to get the whole sigma catalog21:41
BioGuy...or a specific monoclonal (or even polyclonal) antibody21:41
kanzurei don't think that's a reasonable expectation.21:41
kanzurethere's no "altsigma" or "phantom sigma".21:41
yashgarothI tend to prefer techniques that don't need something like lithium borate, but yes that's true21:41
kanzureas for antibodies- yeah we just need someone to sit around producing different antibodies, for sure..21:41
yashgarothand actual bioreagents like mabs are scarce, don't get me started on fucking chromatography resins21:42
kanzurei'm not completely sure, but it looks like all the antibody startups are filthy rich. i'm not completely sure though.21:42
yashgarothluckily for mabs you can grow them in e.coli if you don't care about effector activity21:42
BioGuyThere's plenty of distributors of chemical reagents. It took me several months but I finally found a local chemical supply company who would sell to me as an individual.21:42
yashgarothreagent protein production is a cushy business21:42
kanzure"$2200/antibody"21:43
kanzure"you mean per order?"21:43
kanzure"no i mean per antibody molecule"21:43
yashgarothI was happy to find that triton x-114 is apparently on ebay, and then a day later find out that I can just use ethanol21:44
foucist"something's fucked with your manufacturing process in that case! you're doing it all wrong stupido!"21:44
yashgarothwhat's fucked is that the pile of money is too big to climb out of21:44
BioGuyAnyways I just think what the DIY community needs is for some people to step up, create a company or non-profit, purchase some torte liability insurance, open up wholesale accounts with manufacturers and suppliers, then start distributing to individuals.21:45
kanzure"we'll pay you $200M to not do it better" "what?"21:45
foucistmeh, why not just use silk road or something21:45
kanzureso the problem with that is you would need to get an additional % on top of each order21:46
foucistanonymous  transactions etc21:46
kanzureand hobbyists aren't going to be paying $500 for a few ml of taq21:46
kanzurefoucist: because silk road doesn't have anything we want.21:46
foucistkanzure: i mean sell on it21:46
kanzurewhy21:46
yashgaroth"hey what's all this cocaine doing in my tris-hcl? silk roooooooad"21:46
foucistsilk road has noots21:46
BioGuyWhy does it need to be anonymous?21:47
kanzurefoucist: i think you're just jumping on bandwagons21:47
kanzureor just saying things to say things.21:47
foucistsome combo of that i suppose..  i was suggesting something lower overhead than torte liability insurance but nevermind21:47
foucistthe world is not ready for it!21:47
kanzurenot ready for what?21:47
foucistyou21:47
foucistnot ready for your swinging cock21:48
foucistlaters heh21:48
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BioGuyI dont see why selling chemical and life science reagents has to be done in any sneaky sort of way. Some things are a bit stringent on federal regulations, like iodine, but other than that many things you should be able to sell fine to people21:48
kanzurei think a sneaky reagent bitcoin thing would be cool, but i don't think it's necessary21:48
BioGuyOh I see instead of tort liability insurance. I would rather just purchase the insurance and sell everything out in the open21:49
yashgaroththe other sad part of diybio is that you have to adapt your methods to the available reagents, rather than vice versa21:49
yashgarothalso lithium borate has the shortest wikipedia article I've ever seen21:50
BioGuyOnce you take it into the world of Tor and bitcoins DIYbio could easily get a bad rap... just do it by the book.21:50
kanzurediybio's reputation means nothing to me21:50
BioGuyYet lithium boric acid as a running buffer is the best running buffer we have yet. Cheaper, Faster, less heat, longer run times, higher voltages than TAE/TBE21:52
BioGuyIt should if you want it to thrive21:52
BioGuyIf you dont want people to be afraid of it21:52
kanzurehonestly i don't care if they are afraid of it. it is still useful to me.21:53
BioGuyYes, but if people become afraid of it it will become less accessible than it already is and wont be useful to you anymore21:53
kanzurehuh?21:56
BioGuyImagine if in the hay day of the IT revolution people and the government became afraid people would create devices that would destabalize technological infrastructure. What if the government passed laws limiting the sales and purchasing of transistors to academic and corporate institutions21:56
kanzurethen i would build transistors21:56
kanzureazonenberg (sometimes comes in here) does diy cmos fabrication21:57
kanzurei don't think you understand how insanely dedicated we are21:57
yashgarothso uh I'm not a chemist but can't just just buy lithium hydroxide and boric acid and mix them in solution?21:57
yashgarotherr, you just*21:57
yashgarothnot even sigma sells straight lithium borate21:58
BioGuyYes, the irony is that lithium hydroxide is easier to come by, but MUCH MUCH more hazardous than lithium borate. I wouldn't use lithium hydroxide without a fume hood personally21:58
BioGuyIts probably under lithium decaborate21:59
yashgarothso build a fume hood21:59
BioGuysorry tetra borate22:00
yashgarothoh well that's on ebay22:00
BioGuySure...but I cant do everything. The point is as an adult consenting individual if I want to do an experiment involving lithium borate I should be able to do that and buy the reagents I need without having to put a bunch of time money and effort into building a DIY fume hood before I even get to touch my experiment22:01
yashgarothhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Lithium-tetraborate-anhydrous-Reagent-99-500g-/230827948815?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35be6afb0f ?22:02
BioGuyok... but what grades? Also which is more expensive the chemicals on ebay or from Carolina/Spectrum Chemical22:02
yashgaroth99% is plenty22:03
yashgarothcarolina's site is down apparently22:03
BioGuyLOL I was just going to look there too Ha!22:05
BioGuyEven buying on ebay though I'm forced to buy 500g for $91.99 - At the local chemical shop I was able to find here I could buy it at 25g for $1022:07
kanzurei don't understand. you have a local chemical shop?22:08
yashgarothwas just about to ask that22:08
kanzureor do you mean "the sigma supply room at the university"?22:08
BioGuyMy point is, is there needs to be a chemical/life science reagents distributor that caters to individuals, it will make DIYBio more accessible, bring more people into it, and generate new innovation22:08
kanzurenobody is arguing against that. if you have a way to make te pricing work, let's hear it.22:09
kanzurethe problem is that if you're just redistributing pricey shit, you need to mark up the prices even more outside the range of hobbyists.22:09
yashgarothand if you want a decent stock of many chemicals, that's a lot of capital that needs a fair number of customers22:09
BioGuyYa found one a few miles north of me. Their site is amersci.com - like I said though, took me several months to find them22:09
BioGuyAnything you would buy on ebay or that you can get your hands on as is is already marked up. The point would be just to make it accessible, just make it so an individual can actually buy it... and in small quantities that they might want for a project.22:11
BioGuyRight now 99% of all suppliers cater to corporate and academic institutions, but hardly any to the individual22:12
kanzuremost of the diybio people that i see tend to be broke. i'm not sure how you expect them to be able to afford 2x markups.22:13
kanzurei suppose small amounts that are marked up might be doable.22:13
BioGuyYou don't think theres a fair amount of customers in the DIYbio community right now that dont have access to reagents?22:13
kanzurei think most of the diybio people tend to be poor and with no money22:13
BioGuyOk and where do they get their reagents from?22:13
kanzure"LOL what can i do with $100" fuck22:13
kanzurewhy are you asking me these questions22:14
kanzurei already told you i agree with you22:14
kanzurewhat more do you want from me right now22:14
BioGuyI can tell you what I did with $100 - I bought some Tris, EDTA, glacial acetic acid, boric acid, and lithium tetraborate all because a local chemical supplier was willing to sell to me in smaller quantities22:15
kanzurethis is like talking to a wall.22:15
BioGuyMaybe I just dont get what your saying. You say most DIYbio people are broke - so where do they get their reagents from right now?22:16
kanzurewhy do you think they have reagents?22:17
BioGuyYou cant do much bio without reagents. So if they're not doing anything right now they wouldn't be buying reagents anyways22:18
kanzureyes, the current diybio projects are limited. that's not surprising.22:18
kanzurei already knew that.22:18
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kanzurewhy do you think they have reagents?22:19
BioGuyBecause anyone in DIYbio or interested in DIYbio needs reagents.22:20
BioGuyYou cant exactly do any sort of bio without reagents22:20
kanzureanyway, this is just an unproductive line of tought22:20
kanzure*thought22:20
kanzureif you hvae a business model with numbers that you cna show me, i would be highly interested in seeing it22:20
kanzure*have22:20
kanzurei could probably throw yashgaroth at it to work on. i'm sure he'd love that.22:20
yashgarothfff22:21
kanzureBioGuy: i don't know if you're talking to me anymore. it really sounds like you're not reading my messages.22:21
BioGuyNo I am, I just dont understand how you don't see how this is a major bottleneck that prevents the DIYbio community from growing22:22
kanzureyashgaroth: pfft, you know you'd love it. it would probably be better pay anyway.22:23
kanzureactually i don't know what you're doing these days22:23
kanzuresame old same old?22:23
BioGuyThe business model is simple instead of selling bulk quantities to corporate and academic customers you sell small quantities to individuals.22:23
yashgarothundeniably better pay, but at least I have access to the one thing diybio can't buy...chromatography resin22:23
kanzurewhen did i say it wasn't a bottleneck? wtf man22:23
kanzureBioGuy: that's not a business model, that's a pitch. i mean an actual business model with models.22:23
yashgarothcan't you just do group buys or something? then there's much less up-front cost22:24
kanzureyeah that's the classic "groupon for drugs" model.22:24
kanzureer i mean 'for chemicals'22:24
skorketrunning resolution tests now22:25
* BioGuy nods to Yashgaroth22:25
BioGuyNot a bad idea.22:25
kanzureso there's 2500 people registered on the diybio mailing list22:25
kanzurethere's about 100 people that i miiight say are capable of running reactinos22:25
kanzure*reactions22:25
kanzureand then let's say you can capture 10% of that market. 10 people isn't enough to support a supply company.22:25
kanzureyashgaroth: isn't this what simon does anyway?22:28
BioGuyAnd how many people do you think aren't on the DIYBio mailing list that are interested in it22:28
kanzure"interested" doesn't mean "is going to run projects"22:29
BioGuyDo you really think in the entire world there are only 2500 people that would be interested in DIYBio?22:29
yashgarothI don't know what simon does, ask nathan22:29
yashgarothah, but how many are interested in running high-resolution gels with lithium tetraborate?22:30
kanzureBioGuy: ok, so then how are you going to find these people? and how many do you estimate? ads? or what22:30
BioGuyHow do you know...lets take a bright highschool kid as an example. He has two choices. 1. He can spend $1000 working on electronics gadgets, maybe computers. 2. He becomes interested in Chemistry and biology - wants to work on that but quickly realizes he cant. He's blocked so he goes with option 122:31
kanzureok, but right now you don't have any data22:31
kanzurewhy i am i going to give you $50k to do this?22:31
kanzurewith such little customer dev work?22:32
BioGuyI'm not even thinking about approaching investors. Im saying theres a lot of work happening in the DIYbio world to bring down cost and increase accessability of equipment. That's only 1/3rd of the equation though. Another 3rd is reagents - and here cost isn't the primary issue.22:34
kanzureyesterday i was serious when i said we have money to throw behind projects22:34
kanzurei just don't see enough numbers here to go for it though22:34
kanzureso far it sounds like a business with very few customers who are all broke (students, etc.)22:34
kanzurealthough, for my own purposes, protein and antibody production is economical compared to me just buying it for insanely high markups22:36
BioGuyThere are plenty of people who arent broke and would be involved in DIYBio if they could. Anyways I'm thinking something like this is something more that needs to emerge from people in mutual agreement that the community needs this rather than seek outside funding - maybe with the exception of kick starter22:37
kanzurehave you ever done a project on kickstarter, or are you talking out of your ass?22:37
BioGuyOk...so whats a protein you would want?22:38
BioGuyNo I haven't. Have you ever done anything for the first time?22:38
kanzurei've been perpendicullarly involved in some kickstarter projects22:39
BioGuyHave you ever got a group of people together with mutual interest and tried to raise money for a common cause?22:39
BioGuyRight my point is there is a first time for everything22:39
kanzurethere's a lot of issues with kickstarter projects. there's nothing "communal" about it. it's people running a kickstarter project.22:39
kanzureand then there's the 5% that goes to amazon and the other percent to kickstarter; plus the "rewards" that suck up a huge chunk of your life to ship and deliver.22:39
kanzureBioGuy: there are many things that i want. i would like a follistatin derivative or a myostatin inhibitor to play with.22:40
kanzurei don't believe in volunteer fundraising. i don't think that's a sustainable source of income.22:41
BioGuyThen  you pursue what you want, I'll pursue what I think the community needs22:41
BioGuyNo, its seed capital22:41
kanzureyou said you wanted a business22:41
kanzurekickstarter isn't a seed fund22:41
BioGuyHave you ever looked at the projects on kickstarter?22:41
BioGuyPlenty of people use it for seed capital22:42
kanzureseed capital is a different financial instrument.22:42
BioGuyWhat?22:43
kanzureseed money is given in exchange for equity in a company22:43
BioGuyNo seed capital is any money you use to start a project, non-profit, company, etc. It doesnt really matter. My point is I think the main bottleneck hindering the DIYbio community right now is access to reagents. You don't need to agree with me and thats fine.22:45
browniesit's before the tree money22:45
kanzureBioGuy: nobody said i disagree with you. wtf.22:46
kanzureabout reagents.22:46
BioGuyYou said it doesn't matter if reagents are accessible or not because people interested in diybio dont have money.22:47
kanzureread more of my messages22:47
BioGuyI missed your line agreeing it would be nice if people could purchase smaller quantities.22:56
kanzureokay.22:56
BioGuy....I couldn't figure out why we were arguing22:56
yashgarothIRC has that effect on people sometimes, arguments just break out for no particular reason22:58
BioGuyROFL22:59
kanzurewell, you can blame my typing22:59
BioGuyEither your too fast or I'm too slow...I don't know which22:59
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BioGuyI don't think I could imagine keeping up with things back in the hay day of IRC when you probably had 10-20 different people talking in a channel at once23:01
* BioGuy nudges kanzure, "Hey man....I love you"23:06
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kanzureokay.23:09
BioGuyHey I was looking at BRL-CAD. Out of curiosity whats your interest in it? Is there something that sets it apart from other open source CAD software?23:14
kanzureopen source CAD software doesn't work or isn't that great23:18
* kanzure sleeps23:18
strangewarpBioGuy: There are tons of channels like that, possibly even more than there used to be, but they're all about programming languages, video games, or Homestuck23:20
BioGuyWhats that?23:21
BioGuyOh! Busy channels?23:21
strangewarpYep23:21
BioGuyI wonder why there aren't very many science centric channels, and the ones that exist theres not much activity. Yet, I remember about 10 years ago using IRC and it wasn't difficult at all to find someone to talk to about any given subject23:24
* strangewarp shrugs23:24
kanzurewait, i should clarify. most open source CAD sucks. brlcad sucks slightly less than everything else.23:24
strangewarpEven channels that are mostly idling can be productive; you just have people reading and responding to the backlog..23:24
* Urchin wasn't on irc back then23:24
kanzureopencascade is the only open source cad package that does nurbs or parametric modeling. openscad doesn't count because it doesn't actually do solid modeling.23:25
Urchinthere's a decent number of science channels, particularly here23:25
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us/wiki/cadfaq23:25
kanzureregarding irc, hplusroadmap is still the largest, oldest and best channel for biohacking and transhumanist projects.23:25
UrchinI know some channels where discussions might go on for days with backlog responses, as well as continuations of previus discussions23:26
BioGuyKanzure are you using it for any projects?23:26
kanzureBioGuy: yes http://diyhpl.us/cgit23:26
* kanzure sleeps for real23:26
strangewarpBioGuy: You might also be interested in this if you haven't perused it yet: http://gnusha.org/logs23:27
Urchinthough it helps if your irc client runs all the tiem23:28
Urchin*time23:28
* strangewarp nods at Urchin23:28
strangewarpMore channels need logging, honestly :p23:28
BioGuyLOL the first question in that link is something I was about to ask. I was going to say, "So is solid modeling just like 3d modeling... whats the difference between that and Blender" :-D23:28
Urchinbtw, my log of this channel is at http://transhumanizam.fizika.org/hplusroadmap.log23:29
Urchinall single file of everything I have of this channel23:29
Urchin9.6MB23:30
UrchinI have all channels logged23:30
Urchinat least the ones I'm on23:31
UrchinI'm running this on a shell server of a student organization on my old uni23:31
skorkethttp://imgur.com/46dQ123:32
* BioGuy just looked at gnusha.org/logs23:35
BioGuy^^^Holy Crap!23:35
BioGuyIm not sure if I should think thats cool or creepy, LOL - Though I can see how it would be useful to use grep with and you could essentially use IRC channels like a forum23:37
strangewarpindeed23:39
BioGuyUrchin...how big is that log?23:40
BioGuyI think my netbook is about to crash23:40
BioGuyABORT!!23:40
strangewarpwoo, shitty netbook twinsies23:41
BioGuyMaybe that would be a good first python program to right. I wonder how difficult it would be to run a server and write a python program that logs various channels23:42
strangewarpMany networks have rules about that sort of thing - not sure what Freenode's policy is, but it's probably a sophisticated one - so make sure you look into that before deploying it23:43
BioGuyHow did you all log this channel?23:47
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strangewarpBioGuy: kanzure runs the gnusha.org logs, I think23:50
BioGuyHe seems to be a pretty busy guy23:50
BioGuyEither that or has been at this quite a long time23:50
strangewarpHe's ultra-productive, basically23:51
BioGuyI really like that SKDB idea23:52
BioGuyIs there a sort of SKDB repository setup yet?23:53
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