Astrospanner
astrospanner.bsky.social
Astrospanner
@astrospanner.bsky.social
A machine to turn coffee into documentation for space instrumentation.
Secondly, why are there not more Excel specific policies, as you are ExcelPope.

I'm interested in how you reconcile the date code schism between Mac and Windows versions of Excel.

How do deal with the small upstarts, the religion-lite if you like, that just run in the browser?
February 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Firstly, the public lottery for royal occasions. Is this to be fully involved in the occasion; eg to be a bride at the royal wedding, or just a guest?
February 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have questions.
February 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
No-one tell them about these...
February 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Thanks for the clarification! I only did a quick google, but it sounds like the situation is confusing anyway.
February 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Interesting thought. I hope that if the NASA funding source gets pulled (the grant proposal probably includes some of the "forbidden concepts" like "increasing access" or "reducing bias") then Harvard would recognize the value and replace the funding.
February 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
NSF funds a bunch of astronomy. There are a number of words in this list that will be in observing proposals. If I were writing one now, I would probably try and shoe-horn a bunch of these in...
February 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Apple had one that disappeared in 2014.

www.theregister.com/2014/09/20/a...
Apple's warrant canary riddle: Cock-up, conspiracy, or anti-Google point-scoring
Please pick one, Tim
www.theregister.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
One of my fears was that this administration would have learnt from previous experience how to get the crazy stuff done, and be able to put competent loyalists in place.

Seems that fear was misplaced.
January 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is the SciFi dream. AIs training new AIs, and they get progressively better.

However, it's nonsense, as discussed here. techxplore.com/news/2024-07...
Using AI to train AI: Model collapse could be coming for LLMs, say researchers
Using AI-generated datasets to train future generations of machine learning models may pollute their output, a concept known as model collapse, according to a new paper published in Nature. The resear...
techxplore.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I mainly use sypder. I should have a look at PyCharm...
January 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My workload (largely data analysis, simulations) is to write/debug/enhance functions in a script and call them interactively in the spyder IDE whilst doing visualisations.

When I shifted from largely Linux to Windows I became more reliant on IDEs so not sure how I can maintain v2 and v3.
January 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I have just had to update my python install... lots of my old 2.7 python code is now broken because of "print()"

I suspect I'll have to write a python script to convert everything...
January 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I deliberately went for a laser printer so the cartridges don't dry out...
January 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM