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malcircuit

@malcircuit@thingy.social

Fledgling trans girl that likes to talk nerdy, perform tech wizardry, do mad science, post occasional anti-capitalist and climate-rage induced rants, and show off her latest Lego builds. There will be selfies.

Swears like a sailor, so you best be okay with that.

My views are my own and are likely wrong.

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malcircuit, to random
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I'm starting to feel like I don't actually know how to get myself to stay focused in way that's sustainable and healthy.

I definitely feel like I could be productive right now, but I don't know how to work with my brain instead of simply beating it into submission with negative emotions.

malcircuit,
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Like, when people suggest using urgency to make tasks more interesting, I'm pretty sure they don't mean creating urgency by telling yourself "if you don't get this done today, you're dumb and a failure" over and over again in your head.

I don't know how to instill a sense of urgency in a way that is believable to my brain. It's not urgent if I need to lie to myself about how urgent it is. It kind of demonstrates the opposite, actually.

malcircuit, to random
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#YouMightHaveADHD if you order a repair kit from iFixit to change the battery in your phone, leave the box somewhere, and promptly ignore it for nearly 4 months before even opening the box

malcircuit, to random
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

Number 6 literally stopped me in my tracks because it's exactly how I feel all the fucking time.

https://youtu.be/bO6Nua9jkBQ?t=969

Having a job has always felt more like a threat than an opportunity to me. Especially as I've been getting paid more over time, and the implied increase in responsibility that goes along with that.

The more successful I've been, the more I start to panic that I'm going to fuck it up and lose it all.

malcircuit,
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(Which, of course, is exactly what's happening right now. Turns out chronic anxiety is not a productive strategy)

malcircuit,
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Claustrophobia is an apt analogy to how it feels. I've increasingly felt trapped by my job — by the entire concept of having "a job". Especially since transitioning, because so much of who I am is now dependent upon lifelong healthcare access, which in the US basically means you must be employed.

malcircuit, to ADHD
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I was just thinking about how I don't really know what a healthy and productive life looks like with my particular flavor of neurodiversity. Even just with my #ADHD, I don't know what my life would look like if I were able to cope with it in a healthy and sustainable manner.

I have no idea what I'm shooting for. No model to emulate. I have no idea what a good day should look like.

The only mental reference I have is the neurotypical stereotype, which I cannot maintain for any length of time.

malcircuit, to LEGO
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Oops... how did this end up in the checkout? Lol #Lego #AFOL

malcircuit, to random
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Everytime Pi Day rolls around (har har), there's always comments about how Americans are weird for using the mm/dd/yyyy format for dates, while much of the rest of the world uses dd/mm/yyyy.

Hot take: both formats suck and should be replaced by the superior yyyy/mm/dd

malcircuit, to astrophotography
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This is the fruit of four-ish nights worth of images from my telescope. Behold, M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy.

Actually a little disappointed in it, to be honest. Light pollution really limits what I can do. I feel like I need 10x as much data to get a clear image. Also thinking that I'm probably not processing the data as well as I could. There's like infinite settings in PixInsight and I don't have any idea what most of them do.

#astrophotography

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Bad day? Here have some galaxies as seen from my backyard #astrophotography

malcircuit,
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@thomasfuchs Wow! There's a lot of galaxies in there!

I'm assuming you used StarX to remove the stars? I don't seem to see anything other than galaxies lol

malcircuit, to astrophotography
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Immediately runs to buy BlurXterminator

The fact that it claimed to be "AI-powered" made me extremely skeptical of BlurXterminator, but now that I understand how this tool works on a technical level, I'm sold.

https://www.youtube.com/live/5_Dg7bYu-E8

#astrophotography

malcircuit,
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Also, a part of me is immediately like, "Oh that's what the secret sauce is? I could probably figure out how to do that." 🤔

#astrophotography

malcircuit,
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The guy probably just wrote some code to generate randomly varying point spread functions, made a training data set by filtering a set of known images with the PSFs, and then training a neural net on the data. It's not a trivial task, but it's also not insanely difficult.

Like, the tool was made by one guy (I think?), so it can't be too difficult. It's more that most people don't have the technical skills to do it. I probably could (given sufficient time, which is the rub).

#astrophotography

malcircuit,
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I wonder if there's a calibration method to determine the PSF of your optical system. Like, in the same way that you take bias, dark, and flat frames to calibrate, there might be a different set of images you could take to get the PSF. 🤔

#astrophotography

malcircuit,
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Initial instinct is to make a cover for the telescope with a hole that's smaller than the spatial resolution of your telescope and shine a light through it to make a point. That's probably harder than it sounds, and it only measures the PSF at a single point. There's probably a more intelligent and mathy method to get the PSF across the entire focal plane through. More research needed.

#astrophotography

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@thomasfuchs True, but that's probably a lot easier to estimate than whatever the diffraction PSF is for your telescope. Especially if it's a particularly weird one. I don't know. It's still an interesting thing to look into, regardless.

malcircuit,
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@thomasfuchs To be honest, I'm sure my ADHD will get the better of me and I'll just buy BXT and forget about it entirely lol

malcircuit, to astrophotography
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Currently browsing Google Scholar to see whether it's possible to measure and model light pollution at a specific location in such a way to be able to calibrate it away.

Probably more trouble than it's worth (like most of my ideas), but I'm intrigued by the possibility.

#astrophotography

malcircuit, to random
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The simple pleasure of putting on a pair of pants that are freshly out of the dryer and toasty

malcircuit, to random
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It begins.

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0163.html

thomasfuchs, to astrophotography
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Work in progress on everyone's favorite galaxy pair (need to catch more photons as I still have way too much noise in the image).

A longer focal length telescope would be helpful with this, I'm really pushing my smol telescope a bit too far with this target.

#astrophotography

malcircuit,
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@thomasfuchs I'm shopping for a new camera and I learned that the ASI294MM Pro has a special "unlocked" Bin1 mode to get higher resolution (8288x5644 vs 4144x2822 in Bin2). That kind of confused me at first because they list a lot of the specs in the Bin2 mode. I was wondering whether the images I've seen from you are in the Bin1 or Bin2 mode?

I became much more interested in the ASI294MM once I learned it has smol 2.3 micron pixels 🤏🏻. I understand now why you get so much detail on your images.

malcircuit,
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@thomasfuchs That's what I figured. It's a good way to compensate for the wide field of the Red Cat 51. That's why I got the ASI178MM that I've been using, which has a similar pixel size.

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@thomasfuchs Does your ASI294 have any amp glow, or is that not an issue for that model?

malcircuit,
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@thomasfuchs Okay, good to know. My ASI178 also has some obnoxious amp glow, so I know your pain. Like you say though, a good set of darks fixes it. I suspect that's a bit easier with a cooled camera.

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