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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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enobacon, (edited ) to random
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somebody should invent a sandwich that doesn't disassemble itself into a salad as you eat it, like if the bread wrapped all the way around it

iris,
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@enobacon with the new edited version -- joke's on you, burritos and wraps still salidify as soon as you break open their bready exterior. At least in my experience. I think what you seek might be a really fancy loaf of bread with all the stuff baked right in.

ai6yr, (edited ) to random
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A look at a steaming new volcanic island in Tonga.... 👀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnzhvAIKsqA

iris,
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@ai6yr don't undersea volcanos fuck with buoyancy or something? Maybe it was oxygen content? I remember them being a hazard for unexpected reasons.

iris, to random
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Rory brought home a mouse again :ratstand:​

iris,
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@jonny now my cat is very annoyed at me for not only taking away his new favorite toy but also preventing him from going out to get another (he's lost outdoor privileges for a week), and my housemate is annoyed that there is a mouse loose in the apartment (tbf I am too).

iris,
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@jonny update! the mouse ventured out of the wall briefly so we now know where it is. I set up a couple of cardboard hiding places adjacent to the hole in hopes of isolating it the next time it comes out, if Rory doesn't catch it first. Rory is also posted next to the hole and watching it intently.

iris,
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@jonny oh yes I was not clear on that. The mouse is very much alive.

iris,
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@jonny no, can I make one out of materials I already have?

iris,
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@jonny that sounds unpleasant? we don't have a mouse problem here and I'd like to keep it that way.

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 . 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 #NoAI a lot, but there's still a lot number with #NoNFT. 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.

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