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iris

@iris@neuromatch.social

XFEL crystallography data processing methods developer. I use my degree in chemistry to write software to use physics to understand biology.

70% coffee by volume. I’m really into electronics and 3d printing right now. I have a very fluffy and affectionate cat. Big fan of bicycles and trains, better public infrastructure generally, and investment in collective wellbeing generally. Food motivated; very easily bribed with coffee and pastries. Always learning.

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ColinTheMathmo, to random
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'Jail' and 'Prison' are synonyms. But 'Jailer' and 'Prisoner' are antonyms.

iris,
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@ColinTheMathmo I'm not sure they actually are synonyms... jail is where you get held temporarily, and prison is where you stay if convicted and sentenced. But I'm being pedantic. You make an interesting observation!

coffeegeek, to espresso
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I mean, if you're going to take the whole "the grinder is the most important part of the equation" thing seriously, why not prove it. ;)

Rancilio Stile grinder paired up with a Breville Bambino Plus. The PF almost sort of works in the Stile's PF holder. 7.1sec gives 17.5g dose.

cc @espresso

iris,
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@coffeegeek @lawyerjsd @feld @espresso alright, I figure you'll have an opinion on this. Is covering the hopper in tinfoil a reasonable way to keep my coffee fresh enough? It feels simultaneously like overkill and inadequate compared to single dosing, but I quite like it.

iris,
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@feld @espresso @coffeegeek @lawyerjsd time for an experiment!!

iris, to random
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Google docs supports markdown wysiwyg editing!! Is this new or am I late to discover it? I have many negative things to say about the direction Google is going in recent years, but this particular update makes me very happy.

iris, to random
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Happy #Caturday. This is how my little one sleeps in my arms basically anytime I'm stationary.

iris, to hamradio
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In the process of learning about , I'm learning so much physics at a deeper level than I did when I studied it more formally in college. A great deal of context and relevant experience in the meantime is helping me out, I'm sure, but there are things I remember struggling with that I just ... get .... this time around. Like P-type and N-type semiconductors — I remember being frustrated with the concept when I first encountered it, but it feels so straightforward and clear now. I can only hypothesize the sleep debt must have been punishing, or maybe my brain was already paging. Or both.

Anyway it's pretty cool to know I can still learn a ton if I want to. I'm trying hard to make it through the textbooks I have (library or for keeps) before acquiring more. I have a stack of 11 at the couch right now...

treyhunner, to python
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What are your favorite one liners?

iris,
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@treyhunner print("\n".join([s for s in dir(something) if substring in s])) in the interactive shell, for installations without ipython

iris,
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@treyhunner relatedly: locals()

iris, to random
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My cat made a friend, months ago I think. They call insistently for Rory to come join them outside most mornings and some evenings. The friend is starting to trust me enough to not run away when they see me. So now the two of them can hang out on the patio while I sit just inside.

iris,
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@jonny he's much more skittish around other cats since meeting a couple cats who hate cats... I'm really encouraged to see him actively interested in making friends now, even if he's nervous about it.

jonny, to random
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hiring a hitman is a complicated game theory problem because the hitman always has the option of just taking the money and calling the cops. you have to convince them that you are capable of hiring another hitman to come after the first hitman, but the very act of trying to hire the first hitman indicates that you don't have a second, more reliable hitman ready to go. so i guess the moral of the story is don't be a landlord. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/landlord-sentenced-20-years-in-prison-in-murder-for-hire-plots

iris,
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@jonny well hello there, I am also not going to prison for attempted or completed violence and also recently single from a highly successful and moral life partner. (Mine died of, um, protesting.) Can I interest you in a flirting?

iris,
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@jonny have you tried being a bird? https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm/112398127744839060

john, to random
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When I’m browsing artist's bios, I see a lot, but there's still a lot number with . It's been an exhausting couple of years, huh?

On the other hand, NFTs turned out to be a bunch of nothing in the end, and I feel like just ignoring the whole thing would have worked.

I feel like maybe this is true of AI ‘art’. It's boring. It doesn't even need a backlash.

iris,
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@john I think it's useful to vocalize. So many use cases are piecewise within commercial products or services, so we aren't directly buying AI "art" or not. We often won't be aware of where it's used (in books, articles, advertisements, and so on) and will have a hard time avoiding it even if we know how to recognize it (which I don't, and not for lack of trying).

iris,
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@john whoa, gotta disagree there. Art for relaying information is a huge and valuable segment of art as a field, and I don't know the breakdown but I'm guessing a lot of what artists get paid for. Especially digital, which is what AI is trying to replace. Beyond that there's art in video games and the like, also controlled by companies and paid out for contracts or salaries.

iris,
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@john and that line of thinking is why I'm vocalizing that AI art will never be acceptable -- it's all built on theft.

I hope the poisoning of AI art reaches the point of no return sooner rather than later. It's already a problem for new models that they're training on previous models' output, now that it's ubiquitous, and the effect is... noticeable. It's not a sustainable system. It won't last, but it puts artists out of work in the meantime, and I'd like to cut that as short as possible.

iris, to random
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Fighting with cmake, wish me luck ⚔️​

iris,
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cmake:1, Iris:0. I have given up on compiling from source .... for now.

But in the meantime, I've got a binary installation running fine and I think I've got a good start on what I wanted to do with it.

I'm working on a puzzle version of the periodic table of the elements that encodes the angular momentum quantum number (s/p/d/f) in the shapes of the pieces, increments in layers for the principal quantum number (shell number), and can only be assembled in the correct order of electron filling. I'm pleased with the concept so far. I'm going to have to be clever about how to enforce order of assembly, but I have a few ideas, and it'll probably take iteration at the printing stage to get that part right.

iris, to cycling
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My sister and her husband took me with them to Muir Woods today for a hike while they're in the area. It was lovely, and I found the most unexpectedly awesome resources in the gift shop: I now have a literal deck of options for recreational bike rides near home and a book of walks and hikes. I can pick one at random when I don't have a destination in mind. I know it's silly but this changes so much!

Small book titled "Urban trails [of] San Francisco" and boxed deck of oversized cards labeled "Bay Area Bike Rides Deck". The latter helpfully says it's "completely revised and updated" but does not indicate anywhere when it was updated.

thetransmitter, to random
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What neuroscientists should know—and what they can do—about changes to BRAIN initiative funding.

By Angie Voyles Askham

https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/what-neuroscientists-should-know-and-what-they-can-do-about-changes-to-brain-initiative-funding/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20240502-what-neuroscientists

iris,
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@thetransmitter it's honestly infuriating to see a congressman quoted saying we "shouldn't give up" (should do what we can with the lower funding level). It's not as if every lab just has to tighten their belts a bit and order less avocado toast. (Does he think labs can do the same science with less money? That's also not how it works.) It's the end of the road for a swath of labs and researchers -- we're going to lose so many brilliant minds who can't find continuous funding through this fiasco. Not to mention who all else decides it's not worth the precarity to continue in a grant funded career.*

*Extremely not at all riled up on account of being in the same position in a different field.

iris, to random
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This is a communication failure. The milk is not testing positive for the virus it is testing positive for evidence of the virus in the cows, by virtue of containing viral genetic material fragments, not intact virus. There are dozens of ways to phrase this, I'm sure, but taking the shortcut of saying grocery store milk tests positive for virus is misleading.

@NPR https://press.coop/@NPR/112328698470096046

iris, to random
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Sticking references all over the apartment so I can do 10-20 second practices throughout the day. It took me ages to settle on a relational system between the Morse alphabet letters that (1) could be encoded in 2d space, (2) maximized cluster size, (3) avoided singletons, (4) minimized duplicate membership, and (5) fit okay on a single sheet of paper, but I really like the result. The visual mapping is helping a LOT.

Zoom of International Morse Code visual reference system. The 26 letters are organized into 5 groups: dots only, single dash, 2 dashes adjacent, 2-3 dashes separated, 3 dashes adjacent, and iambic (substrings of dash-dot-dash-dot) starting with a dash. Each group is assigned a pair of colors for dots and dashes, and they're used to encode the letters as thin and wide bars of color across the letter blocks themselves. Within each group, letters are related by dropping one character from the beginning as you move from left to right, and adding one character at the end as you move from top to bottom. At far right there is also a lookup of the numerals in Morse and the NATO phonetic alphabet (alpha, bravo, Charlie, etc.)

iris, to random
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I REALLY need to stop waiting to eat/meal plan/get groceries until I will die of hunger if I don't eat in the next 15 seconds.

iris, to random
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Ok what the fuck Covered California, I applied for health care coverage from April but you enrolled me for May? I submitted my paperwork at the end of March. Now we're a third of the way into April and you only now tell me I'm not actually covered this month?

iris, to random
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Have another . You deserve it.

iris, to random
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Officially unemployed! Now to decide which of 17423 projects I want to work on... I have lots of things I want to print, but first I need to get the raspberry pi controlling the printer back in shape, since it managed to get into a broken state that I couldn't update or fix. There's also the CAD stage, or software projects, including IOT but also various other purposes. I have wood lying around that needs to be used. And a bunch of bike related things in progress. But I don't want to get too messy before I clear out some space by finishing some of the things that are closer to done... so organization would be a natural choice, but I really want to print some of the organizational aids, especially dividers and containers for the really awkwardly shaped items... and I'm so far behind on sewing!!

iris,
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OR do I want to spend my precious new free time adding features and fixing bugs in the software I'm no longer paid to work on (and have never been paid to maintain)? IT'S MYSTERIOUSLY COMPELLING.

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