jdranczewski

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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I've been writing a UI framework for experiment automation and small tools using Qt Widgets with Python bindings ( https://puzzlepiece.readthedocs.io ) and it still works pretty well! I like the API, and it being immediately
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I usually refer to https://pyformat.info/ , which doesn't have all this detail, but most of the reasonable stuff is included
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I will use any opportunity to say that I deeply dislike the Chinese Room argument - the assertion that since the man in the room doesn't detect an understanding emerging, no understanding can emerge always grates me.
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
PhD theses often have many figures, and these are often not optimised. My thesis is around 30MB, and that's after I optimised a couple of the most egregious figures. I'm planning to make it better in the corrections phase, but f
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I use jupytext https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for pretty much all of my Notebooks, which saves them as Python files. The most immediate benefits for me are easier inspection and searching of the code
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
Good point, piezos do also generate voltages when deformed, so this could conceivably be run in reverse... Microphone arrays are already used for directional sound detection, so this could have fun implications for that application given th
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I'm late to the thread, but Neal actually uses the embed API here, which is free with no limits. The website has two Street View iframes, and it fades between them when the new pano is loaded. Pretty funny way to avoid a hilariously la
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
That is a very good point! Gravity is just such an ingrained intuition that people tend to be ok with saying things go into the spacetime wells, but it is a little tautological. My understanding is that a more correct intuition is thinking
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by jdranczewski 2y ago
This was an invaluable resource 5 years ago when I was working on a summer research project making a ray tracing-based optical levitation simulator - initially it felt a bit insane to try to deeply understand this obscure bit of maths to im
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by jdranczewski 2y ago
The material is very cool, but I'm almost more interested in the progress in 3D nanofabrication this shows - "printing" material in 3D by selective solidification tends to be pretty slow, as you need to move around like a 3D
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by jdranczewski 2y ago
Very glad to hear the Pebble dream lives on! I only switched away from my Pebble Time two years ago when I started to need heart rate monitoring for health reasons. The Pixel Watch is good, but in many ways I still consider the Time the opt
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by jdranczewski 6y ago
Thank you very much for the tips!
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by jdranczewski 6y ago
I have been reading HN for a while and never commented, but the translation thing is very close to my heart, what with learning Physics both in Polish and English at different stages of my life. So much so that I've made a dedicated to