2014-12-14.log

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nmz787juri_: so it seems you have posted to the google group about crashing and it seems no one else is working on this... :/  ugh, this is difficult to decide on what to use00:04
nmz787juri_: which escad was consuming hours?00:04
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juri_oh, that's so fixed...00:19
juri_i've taken over as maintainer.00:19
nmz787i am totally new to haskell as of downlaoding this00:19
nmz787(also make test doesn't work for me, when replacing the _home var with ~/.cabal/bin/)00:20
nmz787i am writing a test script in python now to generate stl00:20
nmz787for them all00:20
juri_this is my first haskell project.00:21
juri_anyway, to bed with me.00:22
ebowdenNight juri_.00:22
nmz787'night00:22
juri_i'll be back at it first thing in the morning.00:23
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delinquentmekanzure, do you have chat logs indexed for chat rooms other than ##hplusroadmap ?02:09
nmz787juri_: when I try to run linear_extrude(height=20, translate(h) = [sin(h), 0, 0]){  square( size = [5, 5] ); }  I get this error extopenscad: coercing OVal to a -> b isn't always safe; use a -> Maybe b (trace: 0.0 -> [0.0,0.0,0.0] )02:28
nmz787oh, juri_ , I guess this is what I wanted linear_extrude(height=20, translate(h) = [sin(h), 0]){  square( size = [5, 5] ); }02:33
nmz787.tell chris_99 this is my first attempt at CAD for that microfluidic mixer http://imgur.com/4XgSEWH02:45
yoleauxnmz787: I'll pass your message to chris_99.02:45
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nmz787.tell chris_99 check it out rendered here: https://github.com/nmz787/microfluidic-cad/blob/master/implicitCAD/output/sinusoidal_mixer.stl03:16
yoleauxnmz787: I'll pass your message to chris_99.03:16
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nmz787kanzure juri_ I don't quite like the looks of the intersection of the central square and the translated square... I had the quality cranked up pretty high and it didn't seem to make a huge differece (tried a few values between 1 and 200)03:19
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archelshmm I think I encountered a similar situation once, where I had to make a sinusoidal channel with constant spacing between the walls03:50
archelsas I recall it was a bit of nag03:50
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jrayhawkkanzure: vsftpd strikes me as a very bad idea and i am disabling it05:08
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kanzurethanks05:26
kanzurethere exist preserved samples of len sassaman brain matter https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/diybio/LMfqPUR0OCA05:27
kanzure.to delinquentme yes, i have logs of other irc channels but they are not available by public http05:32
yoleauxkanzure: I'll pass your message to delinquentme.05:32
kanzure.to genehacker nmz787's microfluidic mixer http://imgur.com/4XgSEWH05:33
yoleauxkanzure: I'll pass your message to genehacker.05:33
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kanzurehello eudoxia05:43
eudoxiakanzure: what's up05:43
kanzurethere exist preserved samples of len sassaman brain matter https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/diybio/LMfqPUR0OCA05:43
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eudoxiabut why05:46
kanzurebecause they didn't do cryonics05:47
eudoxiai wonder what the size of the samples is05:48
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kragenalso07:18
kragenI don't remember if Meredith ever told me how he killed himself07:18
kragenbut lots of suicide methods don't provide much opportunity for cryonics07:18
kragenshe did, however, cryopreserve what she cryopreserved, rather than just dunking it in formalin07:18
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heathlast update was dec.6 for gnusha.org/logs09:35
kanzurebecause logbot isn't running09:36
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nmz787archels: you do microfluidics?11:14
nmz787before going to sleep I turned the quality on that mixer up from 2 to 3000 and it ended up producing an STL of 115 MB11:17
kanzurethis is why you shouldn't use stl -_-11:18
kanzurebut fine don't listen to us11:18
nmz787the only other output it seems is STEP11:22
nmz787for implicitCAD11:22
nmz787my point was actually that the higher-res looks prety decent11:22
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nmz787over what I thought was relatively ugly last night11:22
nmz787kanzure: you did realize this is the source of the STL https://github.com/nmz787/microfluidic-cad/blob/master/implicitCAD/sinusoidal_mixer.escad11:28
nmz787?11:28
eudoxiai think kanzure doesn't like openscad either but i don't remember why11:29
nmz787technically that is ExtOpenScad... though I'm not too clear of the differences11:29
nmz787I'd like to figure out how to accomplish the same with cadQuery today11:30
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nmz787archels: I'm not sure a sinusoidal channel with constant wall spacing would still have edges that were sin waves though11:50
archelsnmz787: nah, just dabble in CAD11:55
archelsI think what I did back then was to take the sinewave as the centre of the channel, and project along a vector orthogonal to its derivative11:57
nmz787mmm, yeah I was thinking it might be something to do with the derivative/tangential lines12:04
nmz787center of channel didn't occur to me, but yeah sounds decent12:04
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nmz787kanzure: if svg was to be used, I think for things like that sine wave mixer there would need to be some internal representation... that way we could increase/reduce the quality as needed. Since it appears that you need to create things like a sine wave by evaluating the math yourself and drawing vectors12:30
kanzurethen don't use svg for evaluation12:30
nmz787and also you might want to adjust the channel parameters, like round cross-section, or square.12:31
nmz787One thing that heekscad has is something called heekscnc, which made me think about edge effects during manufacturing12:31
nmz787like, your beam or etch might not give you a straight wall or sharp corner12:32
nmz787but maybe at a large enough resolution you don't even notice that12:32
nmz787so it would be case dependent12:32
nmz787and thus we should have a knob to adjust12:32
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poppingtonicpaperbot: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-013-0279-z13:12
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delinquentmekanzoo13:18
yoleaux13:32Z <kanzure> delinquentme: yes, i have logs of other irc channels but they are not available by public http13:18
* delinquentme mind blown13:18
delinquentmekanzoo13:18
delinquentmekanzure, two things: how did yoleaux pattern match kanzoo ?? and what is kanzure btw?13:19
kanzureyoleaux will pester anyone that has pending messages waiting for them13:20
kanzurekanzure is a pseudonym i picked in 2003 to maximize searchability13:20
kanzure"mammals around 129 million years ago"13:22
nmz787"t introduced the first stock ticker in 1866, and a standardized time service in 1870. The next year, 1871, the company introduced its money transfer service, based on its extensive telegraph network. "  I wonder if someone hacked that, back then...13:27
nmz787(Western Union)13:27
kanzurefalse, western union was actually established 280 million years ago13:33
kanzurearound the time of the african sea llama13:33
kanzurehttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4zwGFyCrcF8/UjCt1H1UeiI/AAAAAAAAAbI/iKp6mowhKdY/s1600/Sea+Llama.jpg13:34
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delinquentmekanzure, etymology ?14:22
delinquentmeand can I get moar info on the past logs?14:22
kanzurewhich past logs are you looking for?14:25
kanzurethere is no particular etymology. maybe some japanese stuff but i was 13 so give me a break.14:25
delinquentmeheheh14:28
delinquentmeno judgement :D I mean look @ mine14:28
delinquentmekanzure, I was interested in shit loads of logs for some programming languages14:28
delinquentmepython or ruby would be ideal14:28
kanzure450 MB python.log14:29
kanzure401 MB rubyonrails.log14:29
kanzure276 MB git.log14:29
kanzure519 MB reprap.log14:29
kanzure443 MB jquery.log14:30
delinquentmecould I get the python and git dumps?14:30
kanzureas soon as i figure out how to enable symlinks14:32
kanzurewelp i'm out of ideas14:36
fenncp14:40
kanzurei'm not going to copy a 500 megabyte log file -_-14:40
fennomg 1 cent of storage space14:41
kanzureall that disk writing just seems unnecessary14:41
kanzurethis shit ain't backed up on that end14:41
kanzurejrayhawk: whenever that colossal amount of storage space shows up... let us pretend to consider backing things up.14:41
fennyou wanna live forever, kid14:42
fennlive free and wild, copy files everywhere14:42
kanzurenow that steve coles is dead they have been posting various plans to the grg mailing list14:42
kanzurethe latest set of plans is for more donation drives14:42
kanzure"and getting more facebook likes"14:43
kanzure1 like = 1 immortal14:43
fennis that the new altcoin14:43
kanzure"likes" were a feature that facebook implemented in 170614:43
kanzureold timey times14:43
kanzuremy point is that relying on donation drives to come up with your plans for life extension research and financing is not a good plan14:44
delinquentmehow to fund life extension?14:44
fennam i missing something here, why aren't there billionaires throwing piles of money at life extension research?14:44
delinquentmeget everyone involved in a mechanical turk type thing14:44
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delinquentmefenn, there are! but you must factor in coping mechanisms14:45
fenni mean it's not like they can spend it on anything else14:45
kanzurei sent them a rant telling them they are morons and they should be planning for a project to take 100 years, or even 10,000 years14:45
kanzurebecause unreasonably colossal problems require unreasonably good plans14:45
eudoxiathe grg people or the billionaires?14:45
kanzuregrg people14:45
kanzurefenn is talking about the billionaires14:45
kanzuremy best guess at this point is that billionaires don't have anyone good to spend the money on14:45
kanzureaubrey is not a bad person, but he's not going to hedge his bets correctly14:46
delinquentmebillionaires struggle to vet talent14:46
fenni wouldn't invest in a researcher who hedges his bets anyway14:46
kanzurethere is no reasonable talent in this14:46
kanzurefenn: by invest you mean fund, and why not?14:46
fennthey have to be monomaniacally devoted to $(theory) in order to pursue it to completion14:46
eudoxiaapparently some kind of {m|b}illionaire hired mike darwin to travel around the world collecting data on how fucked we are as a civilization14:46
kanzurecryonics and brain uploading, for example, what's not to like going after two hard things?14:46
delinquentmekanzure, what du mean about reasonable talent?14:47
kanzureand you don't just hire a single person obviously, but you do need at least one person that knows how to fucking plan14:47
fennkanzure: well i was thinking you "invest" money and your return is not dying14:47
kanzuredelinquentme: nobody has demonstrated any capacity for good planning for life extension research14:48
fennother people not dying is a side benefit14:48
kanzurelots of people tiptoe around topics and they want to maximize youthfulness for 1000s of years, that's bullshit14:48
kanzureyou really can't talk about things like extreme amounts of organ-specific life support systems, organ perfusion, replacement, organ markets, brain scanning, cryonics, as reasonable solutions to life extension, because people want some elixir or whatever14:50
kanzureperhaps actual life extension just sounds too ridiculous or something14:50
fenndid you read mike darwin's thing about "high technology" vs "futile technology"14:50
poppingtonicCan you really plan for things like this? Maybe the fact that nobody has demonstrated any capacity for good planning for life extension research means that we don't really understand the problems well enough *in principle* to plan for solving it.14:51
kanzurebrain uploading in principle is a good plan for a dying body14:51
eudoxiait would probably be easier to convince people to fund WBE over cryonics, since cryonics requires, as darwin put it, commitment to the extent that a cryonics org should "be able to weather a war lasting centuries", while uploading is "scan & done"14:51
eudoxiawell, you have to pay the power bills, et cetera14:51
fennhttp://chronopause.com/chronopause.com/index.php/2011/05/30/going-going-gone/index.html14:52
kanzurecryonics does not require centuries -_-14:52
poppingtonicrevival, maybe...14:52
kanzureyou can run many wonderful cryonics experiments involving less than a whole month of suspension (or whatever the period is being called)14:52
kanzureyou don't even need humans14:52
kanzure"geroprotection"?14:53
fennless than a day14:53
eudoxiawell darwin has always been a bit of a fatalist, so he probably believes like eleitl there's a good chance of civilizational collapse14:53
kanzurecivilizational collapse is another topic, in my opinion14:53
kanzureoops yes i don't know why i said a month14:53
fenneleitl keeps harping about peak oil because he lives in germany and apparently nuclear power doesn't exist there14:54
poppingtonicyou kinda want to factor XRisk in any future scenario, so I don't see a problem with that.14:54
kanzurenice "Polio victims on Iron Lung support in a school gymnasium in the mid-1950s"14:54
kanzurexrisk should not factor into my rant about doing basic projects -_-14:54
eudoxiawell that's true14:54
kanzure"“Halfway technology represents the kinds of things that must be done after the fact, in efforts to compensate for the incapacitating effects of certain diseases whose course one is unable to do very much about. By its nature, it is at the same time highly sophisticated and profoundly primitive… It is characteristic of this kind of technology that it costs an enormous amount of money and requires a continuing expansion of hospital ...14:55
kanzure... facilities… It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine, when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous…"14:55
poppingtonicso does he use civilizational collapse as a way to say "oh, but there may be bigger problems/priorities than cryonics.."?14:56
kanzure"A minority of scientists at that time believed that it might be possible to defeat Polio by the expedient of a vaccine,14 and so an intense competition for funds began between those who sought to secure more Iron Lungs to support the ever growing legion of patients with respiratory paralysis, and those who sought to understand the fundamental basis of the disease (in the context of their technological era) and treat it by eliminating it.15"14:56
kanzurei wasn't aware they were directly competing for the same money, that sounds dumb14:56
poppingtonicor is it in the interest of cryonicists and their supporters to work to reduce XRisk (or fund people who do)...14:57
eudoxiamainly he argues that cryonicists have been dreaming too much about Drexlerian nanotech, and successful, collapse-proof cryonics requires actual involvement of people in their cryonics providers14:57
poppingtonickanzure: I wasn't saying that they're competing. I might have phrased that question in a bad way.14:58
eudoxiahmm, darwin hasn't posted anything on his blog for more than two years now, that's a shame14:58
eudoxialast i read from him in New Cryonet he was planning a post about embalming and chemical preservation that i was looking forward to read14:59
poppingtonic"When cryonics was conceived, the majority of people dying in the US did so with substantially intact brains; the incidence of dementia in people dying at the age of ~70 in the 1960s was ~1%.3 Currently, the incidence of dementia in Americans dying at the average lifespan (78.3) is ~30%"15:00
kanzureone of the paragraphs of my rant to grg was telling them that being more comprehensive about plans and hedges they can identify items that can accelerate life extension research15:01
kanzurefor example, one of the major hurdles is the economic cost of molecular biology research15:01
kanzureby focusing on very cheap, very precise equipment, they can reduce those costs dramatically and get results across the board (not just in life extension research)15:01
kanzure(assuming that usable results would cost $100's of trillions of dollars, a 1000x reduction in basic research costs would be pretty damn great)15:02
kanzure((although this is just one example of something that clever hedging can help with))15:02
fenn"dammit jim, i'm a doctor, not an insturment designer"15:03
kanzureyes it is a little odd how most of grg are doctors15:03
fennnot really, seeing as how gerontology is a medical field15:03
poppingtonicre the quote, gerontology research (SENS) seems even more important now.15:04
kragennuclear power no longer exists in germany, but I suspect that solar imported from Spain will make up the difference within a decade15:04
fennkragen: i was being sarcastic; a blind spot doesn't make something just go away15:04
kanzurewhere's muh thoriums15:05
kragenin thuh ground15:05
fennin norway15:05
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kragenalthough as I recently pointed out on #swhack, hot-dry-rock geothermal fossil energy is even more abundant than thorium, and requires no new research to take advantage of15:06
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kragenbut silicon photovoltaic is so far ahead of it on the cost and adoption curve that I think it won't be adopted in the near future15:06
kragenalso, doesn't cause earthquakes15:06
fennhow would geothermal cause earthquakes?15:07
kanzurepoppingtonic: fwiw sens and gerontology or only partially overlapping15:07
kanzurebut this distinction doesn't matter prolly15:07
kanzure*are only15:07
kragenfenn: enhanced geothermal extraction involves fracking, which induces seismicity15:07
fennthe problem is the word "gerontology" has been hijacked by do-nothings15:07
kragene.g. the Basel program was abandoned due to induced seismicity15:07
fennhm i figured "hot dry" were important for some reason15:08
kanzurei had assumed gerontology was ocined by do-nothings15:08
fennlike, the steam coming out is free of droplets15:08
kanzure*coined15:08
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kragenno, you use a secondary coolant circuit of deionized water to drive the turbines with supercritical steam15:09
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kragen"hot" is important because it's heat energy you're interested in15:09
fennmeh those aren't real earthquakes anyway15:10
kragen"dry" just clarifies that we're talking about rock that you have to inject coolant into in order to get the heat out, unlike traditional geothermal where you just harness the steam coming out15:10
delinquentmeoffhand does anyone know what the market value of 1 gallon of rocket fuel in orbit is?15:12
fenndepends what it's made of, but around $40k15:13
delinquentmefenn any source on that?15:13
fennjust estimating at $10k/kg15:14
delinquentmeI wanted to say I watched a video from some orbital mining company which I was far more impressed with15:14
eudoxiayou guys should read The Rocket Company, it's a pretty good book about a hypothetical reusable rocket and it's on libgen15:15
eudoxiai like to think elon musk read it and was inspired by it to create spacex15:15
fennthere's nothing to mine in orbit but empty tanks15:15
delinquentmefenn, satellites which use fuel to maintain their positions / trajectories15:17
fennpresumably people would be pay more to put fuel IN the satellites15:17
kanzurealmost as if hall effect thrusters might be useful or something15:18
fennfor low earth orbit you can use geodynamic propulsion, which is basically a reaction mass free ion drive15:19
fenner, maybe i made that word up15:19
delinquentmeion drives are real15:19
eudoxiawhy waste money pumping fuel into satellites (many different satellites, with different kinds of tank, which aren't meant to be refueled), when you can just have a tiny tug go around, give satellites the occasional boost and be done with it15:19
fennbut the theory stands, since there are ions flying around in low earth orbit that can be co-opted15:19
eudoxiai mean, if you're going to refuel, you have to boost to the satellites and away from them15:20
krageneudoxia: can you do that?15:20
delinquentmeeudoxia, i want a satellite tug15:20
delinquentme=[15:20
kragenhmm, good point15:20
kragenif you can refuel you can sat-tug15:20
kragenbut you may not be able to do either very often15:20
fenneudoxia: refuel once and the satellite can reboost many times15:20
eudoxiathe fuel that you're pumping into the satellite would be better used tugging the satellite15:20
fennotherwise you're lugging your own weight around for no reason15:20
delinquentmekragen, yeap you can... theres actually a really smart team working on  asteroid 'extinction events'  with that specitic tech15:20
eudoxiafenn: or you could retrofit electrodynamic cables to satellites15:21
delinquentmeand curiously enough .. .just the passive mass of an object to ever so slightly deflect big mean asshole-roids15:21
fennthat's a good plan too15:21
kragencan you deflect asteroids by electrically charging them with a particle beam?15:21
delinquentmeOh and don't forget the spaceship and drilling and nuclear bombs and " I DOOONNTT wann misssa thang "15:21
* delinquentme lelz15:22
eudoxiai never got the whole argument "if we blow up an asteroid we'll just blow it into small still-deadly pieces"15:22
kragenpresumably the charge will go away eventually because the solar wind is full of ions, but does that take a sufficiently long time to be useful?15:22
eudoxiasure, the total kinetic energy of the asteroid chunks will be the same, but with many chunks you have a better surface area to volume ratio15:22
eudoxiaand more of the asteroid would burn up in the atmosphere15:22
fennkragen what would the charge push against15:22
kragenfenn: other electrically charged bodies nearby?15:23
* fenn thinks back to the early days of rocketry15:23
fennthere's nothing nearby... it's space15:23
kragenI'm just thinking that sending electrons to an asteroid might be easier than sending solid objects including baryons to it15:23
eudoxiatbh we can just blow asteroids to smithereens and there's no need to resort to esoteric things like pulling the asteroid with the gravity of a probe15:23
kragendoesn't that depend on the timescale we're talking about, fenn?15:23
eudoxiakragen: you mean the solar wind?15:24
krageneudoxia: I did say "the solar wind" at one point, but I'm not sure if that's the point you're asking about15:24
fenngiven a choice of shooting an asteroid with electrons or a laser, the laser is better because there is no blurring of the beam due to like charge repulsion15:25
kragenI mean we're talking about objects with chaotic orbits, which is the whole reason we're not sure if they're going to hit us or not in the first place15:25
eudoxiaa negatively charged asteroid braking against the positively-charged solar wind15:25
krageneudoxia: hmm, I hadn't thought about that approach15:26
eudoxiait probably wouldn't work, it would just be an extremely inefficient magnetic sail15:26
fennit wouldn't be magnetic at all15:26
fennthe helium particles would go straight at it15:27
kanzurethose iron lungs were probably made from military scrap metal15:27
kragenfenn: if you can develop a charge on the dark side of the asteroid that persists for years, you can exert a force on it over years15:27
fenni wonder if an electrodynamic tether would work with solar wind as the charge carrier15:27
kragenwhile a laser will only be exerting a force on it at the time that it is shining on it15:28
kragenunless you can somehow use the laser to charge the asteroid, e.g. ablating the parts of the asteroid with one or another net charge15:28
fennkragen this happens on the moon at sunrise/sunset already15:29
fennthe dust shoots hundreds of meters up, then presumably contacts the solar wind and falls back down15:29
kragenthat's interesting15:30
fennthat was the point of LADEE, to study what happens15:30
fennhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Atmosphere_and_Dust_Environment_Explorer#Atmospheric_glow15:32
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kanzure.wik rna integrity15:47
yoleaux"The RNA integrity number (RIN) is an algorithm for assigning integrity values to RNA measurements." — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_integrity_number15:47
kanzure.title http://tim-smith.us/arrgh/index.html15:49
yoleauxaRrgh: a newcomer's (angry) guide to R15:49
kanzurefinally something that speaks to me15:49
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jrayhawk"14:41 < kanzure> jrayhawk: whenever that colossal amount of storage space shows up... let us pretend to consider backing things up." what storage space? and stuff is backed backed up, though /srv/ikiwiki is excluded since it's supposed to be cache16:20
kanzureoh okay then16:21
jrayhawkseagate has 8tb drives selling for $260 now16:24
kanzureis that price competitive16:24
kanzureerm i mean.. per tb.16:24
jrayhawkyes16:28
jrayhawkthough it's seagate, so $/(TiB*year) is going to be somewhat more depressing16:30
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kanzure"The fact that with all the 25 years of NIA & 15 years of Ellison Medical Foundation research grant support (including part via AFAR) we remain an aging research community (or a "club") and not an Industry17:19
kanzure(such as the over one trillion dollar, 2,000+ companies BioTech Industry) is very telling."17:19
kanzure"We remain basically without any/many products, have less than a dozen companies and our market capitalization is, at best & generously, only $3-4 billion (with a "B" NOT a "T"). There are very clear reasons for this situation.17:19
kanzureLDIC (Longevity Dividend Initiative Consortium ) was initiated at the June 2010 AGE Board to help remedy that critical problem. The objective of the LDIC was to unite all of the larger 501(c)(3) non-profit aging research organizations17:19
kanzure to work together to get significantly mor aging research funded, with a logical strategy. The first part of LDIC's Mission was completed in June 2013 with Buck joinning ."17:19
kanzure"The second part, effective fund raising, has not been started except to produce a "white paper" & a professional 15-minute film both explaining aging research & the economic incentives for stepping it up substantially."17:19
kanzuretsk tsk17:19
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kanzurehttp://dosen.narotama.ac.id/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Machine-Intelligence-Survey.pdf17:37
kanzureweird how anders put "open source" in a category outside of "industry" :(17:37
kanzure(page 4-5)17:37
kanzure"semantic web" oh my...17:38
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kanzurethis is a poorly written survey17:46
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kanzurerobocop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha4qlq_qUEU19:23
kanzureiron man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlJLQIH0byY19:23
kanzure(musicz)19:23
kanzuresome strange elon musk propaganda http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2012-09-13/features_elonmusk38__01__405inline.jpg19:25
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kanzurecluckj: welcome back19:36
cluckjthanks19:36
kanzurehow's stuff19:36
cluckjhectic as hell19:44
cluckjhow are you?19:46
kanzurejust coding19:46
kanzurepretty great19:46
cluckjnice19:49
cluckjI'm chilling next to a now-sleeping infant19:49
kanzureoh right, that happened19:50
cluckjlol19:50
cluckjin your defense I have left irc for three months at a time for no real reason at all19:51
cluckjhttps://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10847691_10152426839801510_6625221508381038468_o.jpg19:51
kanzure"MXE wasn't designed at random; it was the chosen winner of a long series of tested compounds made by a chemist who had no other way to treat his phantom limb pain. "19:54
kanzurefrom https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874846719:55
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kanzureMXE chemist interview http://www.vice.com/read/interview-with-ketamine-chemist-704-v18n219:55
kanzure"Phenmetrazine is itself a "designer drug"; as sort of explained in the article, it differs from amphetamine by an oxygen and a couple of carbons forming a morpholine ring including the amine moiety, and its designers hoped it would have some of amphetamine's effects (like weight loss) with less side effects. As with most designer phenethylamines, this turned out badly, though not as badly as e.g. Fen/Phen. (There have been a lot of ...19:56
kanzure... "designer" phenethylamines; are you really sure that "derivatives [of phenmetrazine] have just started to appear on the grey market"? Are you sure PiHKAL doesn't have a few?)"19:56
cluckjPiHKAL has all the fun ones19:57
kanzureeven if pihkal specified some that doesn't mean they were on the market19:58
cluckjyes19:59
kanzuresuperlogic to the rescue, i'll retreat to irc now19:59
nmz787cluckj: nice job!19:59
cluckjthanks, he did turn out pretty good20:00
cluckjmost of the time...20:00
nmz787cluckj: I heard recently that there is some research that kids may understand higher math more easily than we thought, and actually burdened by learning things like arithmetic first20:00
kanzureyisss parenting advice from hplusroadmap, let's do this20:01
cluckjI will try to teach him calculus when he's 420:01
kanzureokay so what you want to do is get a skinner box and don't ever use it20:01
kanzureyou're the control group20:01
nmz787i think it was more like fractals and dimensionality maybe20:02
cluckjwhy do we need a control group?20:02
cluckjoh20:02
nmz787but yeah prob some calc concepts too20:02
nmz787stuff heating and cooling20:02
cluckjthose are probably easier than calculus20:02
cluckjthe concepts are pretty easy to teach without the pen-and-paper math20:02
nmz787hmm https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LivingMathForum/info20:04
nmz787http://www.livingmath.net/20:05
cluckjoh my homeschoolers20:06
cluckjhahaha sweet, math history20:09
cluckj"Alfred Adler wrote, “Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.”"20:13
cluckj>_<20:13
kanzurelinguists screw everything up20:20
kanzurewhat has a linguist ever done for me?20:20
nmz787"The climax, which is well presented, is the one-to-one pairing of the set of fractions with the positive integers (which in the language of Georg Cantor proves that the rational numbers are a countable set)."20:21
nmz787lol, wut20:21
cluckjuh, made perl I think20:22
kanzurefact: perl is sentient http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jorallo/iq/iq.html20:22
cluckjnice20:23
nmz787.title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZHsk0-eF020:23
yoleauxDonald Duck - Mathmagic Land - YouTube20:23
nmz787'Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland'20:30
nmz787"We'll never be promoted to S.U.E.O.T.U. [Supreme Unsurpassable Engineers of the Universe] in the Junior Woodchucks if we can't figure how to keep two trains from colliding! This engine's wheels travel 3 1/2 inches each time around!"20:34
nmz787' problem becomes quite complicated as they have to take into account the curvature of the track and the slippage of the wheels.'20:34
nmz787'Professor Brainwhiz is unable to solve the problem, as is the computer at the army base, but the three ducklings save the day.20:35
nmz787'20:35
nmz787.title http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2904220:38
yoleauxError 40320:38
kragenPG has a problem with automated queries20:42
kragen"A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll"20:42
kragenanother thing that subterranean colonies would help with would be gamma ray bursts20:44
nmz787http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Physics-Babies-Volume-1/dp/1492309532/20:45
nmz787http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Calculus-For-Infants-Inouye/dp/098782391420:45
kragenwe can't divert those, unlike asteroids, unless we have some way to figure out that they are about to happen; and they'd destroy enough of the ozone that the surface biosphere would be mostly destroyed, far worse than any asteroid impacts we've had so far20:45
nmz787"My two year old loves this!"20:45
nmz787i wonder if tesla's idea of charging the ionosphere would have any effect20:46
nmz787i guess not20:46
nmz787they aren't charged20:46
nmz787we could pump some gamma absorber into the atmosphere20:46
kragenlike what?20:50
kragenif we knew in advance maybe we could do something20:50
kragenbut our current theory is that we would have no advance warning20:51
nmz787hmm, have you studied optical heterodyning more yet? maybe we could just blast the sky with a laser :P20:58
nmz787'if you're walking outside today, where your head beam'21:01
nmz787wear*21:01
kragenI spent some time today, coincidentally, reading about nonlinear optics, and in particular the optical Kerr effect21:07
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nmz787"Some polar liquids, such as nitrotoluene (C7H7NO2) and nitrobenzene (C6H5NO2) exhibit very large Kerr constants. A glass cell filled with one of these liquids is called a Kerr cell. These are frequently used to modulate light, since the Kerr effect responds very quickly to changes in electric field. Light can be modulated with these devices at frequencies as high as 10 GHz. Because the Kerr effect is relatively weak, a typical Kerr cell ...21:12
nmz787... may require voltages as high as 30 kV to achieve complete transparency. This is in contrast to Pockels cells, which can operate at much lower voltages. Another disadvantage of Kerr cells is that the best available material, nitrobenzene, is poisonous. "21:12
kragenyou can find the things I thought were relevant at https://twitter.com/kragen/status/54422024082216550421:13
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nmz787"typically optics start to go nonlinear at around 10⁸ V/m, i.e. 10 V/nm."21:30
nmz787this sounds pretty trippy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-focusing21:32
* nmz787 just watched Donald in Mathmagic Land21:33
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nmz787"A trigatron is not one of the TRANSFORMERS or a Pokemon"21:48
nmz787http://diyhpl.us/~nmz787/pdf/A_terahertz_metamaterial_with_unnaturally_high_refractive_index.pdf21:52
nmz787stacks of H's huh21:57
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kragennmz787: hmm, 10 V/nm would be 10¹⁰ V/m.  I should have said 0.1 V/nm or 100 V/μm22:54
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