JostMigenda

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Senior Research Software Engineer at King’s College London. Interested in supernova neutrinos, outreach, LGBTQ+ in STEM, bad puns. 🇪🇺 (they/them)

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daringfireball, to random
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★ Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition
https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/face_the_critic_ian_betteridge_edition

JostMigenda,

@daringfireball @gruber Thanks for clarifying! I understand your point, even while I disagree with the understanding of “consent” it hinges on.

But what about @ian‘s other points (that the comparisons with Spotify & Der Spiegel fundamentally misunderstand antitrust law, and that your “protection racketeers” rhetoric is clearly disproven by the EU’s long history of antitrust enforcement)?

JostMigenda,

@gruber @ian It’s certainly constructed to target “big tech”. But you seem to imply that they’re being targeted because they’re non-EU companies? And that just doesn’t pass the sniff test to me; not when the US targets the exact same companies with congressional hearings and DOJ lawsuits, for broadly similar reasons.

daringfireball, to random
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★ More on the EU’s Market Might
https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/more_on_the_eus_market_might

JostMigenda,

@daringfireball @gruber Regarding your argument that Photos is “not just an app”:
If I uninstall the Calendar app on iOS, system-wide calendar UI (e.g. viewing .ics files I open in a browser) still works the same way. The EC seems happy with that.
Why couldn’t Photos work the same way, with the system-wide photo picker interface unchanged even if the Photos app is uninstalled? Am I missing something?

JostMigenda,

@gruber Agree that hide vs. un-install is a minor detail that the EC shouldn’t bother with.

Disagree with this bit though:“Vestager is saying that to be compliant with the DMA, Apple needs to allow third-party apps to serve as the system-level image library and camera roll.”

If Apple can just do with Photos what they did with Calendar pre-DMA, they don’t need to give third-party apps any system-level abilities. No “monumental demand”; just an unnecessary-but-thankfully-pretty-harmless one.

daringfireball, to random
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Meta Offers to Reduce No-Ads Subscription Fee for Facebook and Instagram in EU, but Critics Want No Fee at All
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/19/meta-dma-feee

JostMigenda,

@daringfireball @gruber If you view privacy not as a luxury but as a “fundamental human right”, Schrems’s argument makes perfect sense.
Think of it like voting: Sure, people can freely decide not to exercise their right to vote. But requiring people to pay so they’re allowed to vote? Unacceptable.

JostMigenda, to random

First day in my new job! 🎉

Still at KCL, now as a Senior Research Software Engineer working with research groups across the university.

franco_vazza, (edited ) to Astro
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I asked to my electro-magentism students how many professors are still recording and sharing their lecture (not anymore mandatory for any course in Bologna):
just one (it's me 🙋‍♂️ )

Same question to master students in Astronomy: just 2(one it's me again 🙋‍♂️ ).

I don't understand why we went back to before covid. All students still show up in person, but once I give a lecture, if it's recorded it can be watched a second time by any student.
So, why not?
Thoughts?

JostMigenda,

@franco_vazza How much extra work is it for you per lecture? (Tech setup, recording, uploading, …)

JostMigenda, to random

I know intellectually that ATLAS and CMS have lots of collaborators, but this pie chart of their recent joint paper is still 🤯
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.08713.pdf

JostMigenda, to random

Our particle physics group at King’s College London has an opening for a postdoc on the @HyperKamiokande data acquisition system:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/082986-post-doctoral-research-associate

It’s a very friendly group at KCL & important work that’ll let you collaborate with many different groups across the whole experiment!
Interested? I’m happy to answer your questions!

vicgrinberg, to fediverse
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The last two things I loved watching were "Sense 8" and "She Ra" (this one following a recommendation here in the !)

What would you recommend me to watch next based on the above?

Old stuff welcome, I likely haven't watched it - I want perhaps one episode every two weeks or so on average. Has to be available in some way in the Netherlands in English or German. Finished series preferred.

(Things I definitely dislike: romcoms and comedy.)

JostMigenda,

@vicgrinberg Last thing I loved watching was “For All Mankind”. Great ensemble of characters and the scope (4 seasons thus far, roughly a decade per season) gives them a depth & meaningful character arcs that are some of my favourite ever.
(And while some of the Cold War alternative history is uncomfortably relevant, it still feels hopeful overall.)

JostMigenda, to random

My first Super-Kamiokande monitoring shift inside the actual mine!
(I’ve done several remote shifts since 2020 from the UK/Germany; but being in the control room feels different.)

Me (without safety helmet) in the control room. Behind me are desks with computer screens showing detector status information (illegible on the photo). Above the desks on the wall is a large screen showing a Super-K event display.

franco_vazza, (edited ) to Astronomy
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The Universe is full of stars!

By extrapolating some numbers based on local measurements, we can guess there are about 1e12-1e13 galaxies just in the observable part of our Universe, for a total of at least~1e24 stars.

When did the Universe form them? How well do we know?

Here is an about this.

JostMigenda,

@franco_vazza Very interesting thread; thank you! 🤩

As a supernova person, one factlet I’ll add is that the supernova rate is directly proportional to the star formation rate at the same redshift (because massive stars that explode in a SN have negligibly short lifetimes, cosmologically speaking).

JostMigenda,

@hendric @franco_vazza In principle yes—the very first generation of stars formed in the universe were predicted to be much larger (see e.g. https://inspirehep.net/literature/632186 for a review paper); partially due to the metallicity at the time being effectively zero. But this is getting very far outside my wheelhouse, too, so I can’t explain any detail.

vicgrinberg, to random
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➕ I made veggie couscous and roasted kabocha squash soup today so I've got yummy things to eat next days (and some to freeze for later) and my place smells amazing and it's super cozy and warm downstairs in the typical Dutch giant kitchen/loving room combo 😊

➖ I have to sleep downstairs since partner got a cold and it smells so amazing like food here. But if I open the window so the smell makes me less hungry, all the cozy warm air will leave 😩

JostMigenda,

@vicgrinberg “loving room” is such a fantastic typo 😍

franco_vazza, to Astro
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New
The Universe, beyond our Galaxy, continuously irradiates our planet with any sort of "astrophysical backgrounds", which are the cumulative radiations emitted from all sort of things happening in the Universe - from active galactic nuclei, to exploding stars, to the thermal emission from the Big Bang (CMB) etc.

What is the total power received by our planet at every second?

And how large is the power collected by our telescopes?

JostMigenda,

@franco_vazza 3 GW is about the power of one nuclear power plant, not 1000. E.g. Chooz (one of my favorites, as a neutrino physicist) reached a peak of 3120 MW: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant

daringfireball, to random
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Dithering
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/13/dithering

JostMigenda,

@daringfireball @gruber Subscribed; look forward to hearing your initial take!

Minor bug report: The Dithering welcome email is not Dark Mode-friendly. 🫣

JostMigenda, to random

@jacob Very useful advice in https://jacobian.org/2023/aug/25/candidate-feedback/ —thank you!

One issue: The penultimate bullet point (“TK length and positive/negative”) isn’t done yet.

jaztrophysicist, (edited ) to random

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    JostMigenda,

    @jaztrophysicist It’s for cosmology what “No significant deviation from the Standard Model predictions were found, allowing us to set limits on […] in the mass range […]” is for LHC searches. 😅

    dangillmor, to science
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    As scientists pull back on, or drop entirely, their Twitter presence, a lot of them are coming here.

    Welcome them, follow them!

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

    #science @scientists

    JostMigenda,

    @simon_brooke None that I know of, unfortunately. (I currently run @SNEWS and @HyperKamiokande manually; but for SNEWS at least, I should look into writing a bot to share real-time alerts …)

    ivory, to random
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    :badge_important: Ivory now supports custom instance emoji on :device_imac: (Mac) and :device_iphone: :device_ipad: (iOS/iPadOS)!

    The update will roll out over the next few days, but you can grab it now here:
    :appicon_ivory: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

    Once updated, just tap the smiley face icon in the compose window to view and select a custom emoji from your server instance.

    JostMigenda,

    @ivory Excellent, thank you! :BlobhajHeart:

    AndyPerfors, to random

    My new hobby is being unnecessarily dramatic about tiny things in an attempt to salt the earth for future teenage antics along similar lines.

    Me: Oh no! We are out of my crackers! Woe is me!

    10yo: It's just a cracker. I think you can manage.

    Me: Oh fruit of my loins, I gave you life and this is how you treat me? I shelter you and feed you and you dismiss my cares and worries so harshly? YOU DON'T LOVE ME

    JostMigenda,

    @AndyPerfors All you need for this to work is for your future teenager to exhibit a tiny bit of self-awareness about whether they’re being unnecessarily dramatic. Which teenagers are famously good at. 🙃

    JostMigenda, to random

    Very cool paper on the arXiv this morning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15289

    tl;dr: IceCube started a public competition on ML algorithms for reconstructing events. Hundreds of submissions, including several that are better than the current IceCube reconstruction and that they’re hoping to adopt now. Sounds like an incredibly successful outreach project!

    vicgrinberg, to random
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    Als Doktorandin habe ich, zusammen mit @tiana_athriel, einen Kurs bei der JGW Schülerakademie geleitet.

    Jetzt, 11 Jahre später, gehen wir sozusagen zurück: mit zwei Sonderangeboten auf einer der Akademien diesen Sommer. Zuerst ein bisschen Mythbusting dazu, wer Wissenschaftler*innen eigentlich sind und wie sie arbeiten. Und dann Einblicke in die Astronomie & unseren Werdegang.

    Seit gestern ist das Program bestätigt und ich freue mich SO :)

    https://jgw-ev.de/

    JostMigenda,

    @vicgrinberg @tiana_athriel Sehr cool! 🤩 Viel Spaß auf der Akademie!

    Ich war 2007 auf DSA; das – plus die Veranstaltungen des Alumni-Vereins (woher ich auch viele JGWler kenne) – war bis heute eines der prägendsten Ereignisse meines Lebens.

    vicgrinberg, to random
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    🌶️ You may be someone's ideal PhD advisor, but they may not be the ideal PhD student for you.

    JostMigenda,

    @vicgrinberg If you can elaborate (without making things awkward if current or former students read this), I’d be very interested in a thread on what makes a PhD student “ideal for you” from an academic’s POV.

    JostMigenda,

    @vicgrinberg Ah, I think I get it; thanks. And unfortunately, that’s probably sth you can only figure out over time as you work with them and not in the initial interview?

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