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Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
January 1, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
> I love the internet sometimes
*goes back to making software for hiding from the internet*
*goes back to making software for hiding from the internet*
I love the internet sometimes for these multi-layered way-to-deep retweet forays into nerdity.
Some years ago I worked with population estimate experts around the world to calculate the generation gap. Surprisingly, it came to 24.9. I use 25 years for a generation because, well, it makes things a lot easier. It matters not, this artwork is fine and appreciated as it is. And the thread is ace.
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
> I love the internet sometimes
*goes back to making software for hiding from the internet*
*goes back to making software for hiding from the internet*
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it's more of a comment than a ques
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
it's more of a comment than a ques
Sadly, I had to miss the Big Techday this year (again 😤 they're doing this intentionally) due to a date clash with the CZI Open Science meeting.
Thankfully the talks are finally available online in time for the holidays 😍
Thankfully the talks are finally available online in time for the holidays 😍
We have published the video recordings of 25+ talks of this year’s Big Techday. The event covered a wide range of topics: from client collaborations to insights into our AI research and even student-led rocketry projects. All recordings are available on our website: www.bigtechday.com/en/talks
Big Techday 25 - Talks
Big Techday is a one-day conference on science and IT. Here, you can find the talks for the event on October 24th, 2025.
www.bigtechday.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Sadly, I had to miss the Big Techday this year (again 😤 they're doing this intentionally) due to a date clash with the CZI Open Science meeting.
Thankfully the talks are finally available online in time for the holidays 😍
Thankfully the talks are finally available online in time for the holidays 😍
But maybe social clique formation is also a form of phase separation
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
But maybe social clique formation is also a form of phase separation
ilastik 1.4.2b5 is out, and I'm really excited about this one.
The release highlights (www.ilastik.org/download#beta) should hopefully read as huge as this update already is in its very first beta release. Physical pixel size metadata, label explorer, up to 10x raw data viewing speedups 😱❤️🔥
The release highlights (www.ilastik.org/download#beta) should hopefully read as huge as this update already is in its very first beta release. Physical pixel size metadata, label explorer, up to 10x raw data viewing speedups 😱❤️🔥
ilastik - Download
www.ilastik.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
ilastik 1.4.2b5 is out, and I'm really excited about this one.
The release highlights (www.ilastik.org/download#beta) should hopefully read as huge as this update already is in its very first beta release. Physical pixel size metadata, label explorer, up to 10x raw data viewing speedups 😱❤️🔥
The release highlights (www.ilastik.org/download#beta) should hopefully read as huge as this update already is in its very first beta release. Physical pixel size metadata, label explorer, up to 10x raw data viewing speedups 😱❤️🔥
Lol that soon™️ turned unto 6 months 😶 oh well, onwards! To Zurich!
Oh boy, big feature finally finished from my side (ok well e2e test still tbd but eh...). Time for review & release soon™️, I guesstimate another month. New beta already after stable 1.4.1 only just went out 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Lol that soon™️ turned unto 6 months 😶 oh well, onwards! To Zurich!
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Day 2 of #Zidas2025 is happening!
After a lecture from @ahklemm.bsky.social, it's now time for hands on with @ilastik-team.bsky.social by @benediktbest.bsky.social from Anna Kreshuk's lab and some tracking in the afternoon with #Trackmate from @jytinevez.bsky.social !
After a lecture from @ahklemm.bsky.social, it's now time for hands on with @ilastik-team.bsky.social by @benediktbest.bsky.social from Anna Kreshuk's lab and some tracking in the afternoon with #Trackmate from @jytinevez.bsky.social !
July 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Day 2 of #Zidas2025 is happening!
After a lecture from @ahklemm.bsky.social, it's now time for hands on with @ilastik-team.bsky.social by @benediktbest.bsky.social from Anna Kreshuk's lab and some tracking in the afternoon with #Trackmate from @jytinevez.bsky.social !
After a lecture from @ahklemm.bsky.social, it's now time for hands on with @ilastik-team.bsky.social by @benediktbest.bsky.social from Anna Kreshuk's lab and some tracking in the afternoon with #Trackmate from @jytinevez.bsky.social !
Protip for Python on Windows:
"Copy as path" from Windows Explorer has the issue that it copies "C:\Users\me\path" with single backslashes, which you cannot directly paste as a string in Python.
Unless you make it a raw string:
path = r"C:\Users\me\example.png" # yay, copy-paste works
"Copy as path" from Windows Explorer has the issue that it copies "C:\Users\me\path" with single backslashes, which you cannot directly paste as a string in Python.
Unless you make it a raw string:
path = r"C:\Users\me\example.png" # yay, copy-paste works
June 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Protip for Python on Windows:
"Copy as path" from Windows Explorer has the issue that it copies "C:\Users\me\path" with single backslashes, which you cannot directly paste as a string in Python.
Unless you make it a raw string:
path = r"C:\Users\me\example.png" # yay, copy-paste works
"Copy as path" from Windows Explorer has the issue that it copies "C:\Users\me\path" with single backslashes, which you cannot directly paste as a string in Python.
Unless you make it a raw string:
path = r"C:\Users\me\example.png" # yay, copy-paste works
Oh boy, big feature finally finished from my side (ok well e2e test still tbd but eh...). Time for review & release soon™️, I guesstimate another month. New beta already after stable 1.4.1 only just went out 🤣
May 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Oh boy, big feature finally finished from my side (ok well e2e test still tbd but eh...). Time for review & release soon™️, I guesstimate another month. New beta already after stable 1.4.1 only just went out 🤣
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If you have talented students in your team looking for a coding-heavy summer project, let them know that ilastik is participating in Google Summer of Code 2025! We are a sub-org under the Python Software Foundation. Come code with us as a (paid!) open source internship: github.com/btbest/gsoc-...
github.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
If you have talented students in your team looking for a coding-heavy summer project, let them know that ilastik is participating in Google Summer of Code 2025! We are a sub-org under the Python Software Foundation. Come code with us as a (paid!) open source internship: github.com/btbest/gsoc-...
Miniforge giving me so much pain these last few days... And it seems all because I insisted that "conda now uses the mamba solver, so there's no reason to use mamba anymore".
I don't know why, but `conda install plotly` in my env consistently failed to solve, while `mamba` worked first try.
I don't know why, but `conda install plotly` in my env consistently failed to solve, while `mamba` worked first try.
February 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Miniforge giving me so much pain these last few days... And it seems all because I insisted that "conda now uses the mamba solver, so there's no reason to use mamba anymore".
I don't know why, but `conda install plotly` in my env consistently failed to solve, while `mamba` worked first try.
I don't know why, but `conda install plotly` in my env consistently failed to solve, while `mamba` worked first try.
When an entire new feature just needs a few changes in one function
January 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
When an entire new feature just needs a few changes in one function