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Let's get our muon lifetime fix! Since starting this report, the detector recorded 3931 muon decay candidates over 339 hours of continuous data-taking. An exponential decay + flat combinatoric model gives a lifetime of 2176 +/- 36 nanoseconds. Model visualization is fancier now! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1243676968790474760/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64079
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"The Routine" Get up at 6am, or thereabouts. Grab Chromebook. Head to living room. Make coffee. Read newspapers. Shower. Dress for work. Attend morning meetings. Eat breakfast and plan day with Jodi. Start normal work day in the home office. If itâs a Tuesday or Thursday, prepare for class; otherwise, focus on research projects. Check in with ⦠Continue reading "The Routine" https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2020/03/26/the-routine/ ( Feed URL: http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/feed/ )
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From justinvasel https://twitter.com/justinvasel on Twitter: Government: Work from home #Neutrino physicists: https://twitter.com/justinvasel/status/1242959609754779653/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64063
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From KIPAC1 https://twitter.com/KIPAC1 on Twitter: Kudos to our friends @SETIInstitute for their first online #SETI_Talk! "Extremophiles: Extreme Life on Other Worlds?" featuring John Rask and Jared Broddrick of @NASAAmes. It's already up for those who couldn't watch real time. https://www.seti.org/event/seti-talks-virtual-edition-extremophiles-extreme-life-other-worlds
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From megwatzke https://twitter.com/megwatzke on Twitter: What's a pulsar? It's the dense, rotating core left behind after a giant star collapses. This is the Vela pulsar, which rotates faster than a helicopter rotor and shoots out jets about 70% the speed of light that @chandraxray sees. #space #science https://twitter.com/megwatzke/status/1243161851057201153/video/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64057
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From Fermilab https://twitter.com/Fermilab on Twitter: Scientists search for origin of proton mass: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/scientists-search-for-origin-of-proton-mass
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From keranews https://twitter.com/keranews on Twitter: 3 SMU Students Test Positive For #COVID19 & Denton County Confirms 19 New Cases Here's the latest on how the #coronavirus is affecting North Texas. https://www.keranews.org/post/covid-19-live-updates-3-smu-students-test-positive-denton-county-reports-19-new-cases https://twitter.com/keranews/status/1242956982853795840/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64044
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Your daily #muon decay lifetime measurement! Surprise... the "missing bins" have filled in since I mentioned them yesterday. Nature delivered a bunch of muons in the "gap" regions that existed yesterday. Be careful about fretting over small statistics...! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1242950257270497286/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64041
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There is a lot of attention on exponential functions with the growth of #COVID19 Here's a less scary example of exponential behavior in nature: the decay probability of #muons, heavy cousins of #electrons. This is running continuously and based on 266 hours of data so far. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1242572407505850374/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64027
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Digital teaching, followed by analog run. It was another good digital teaching day. Held my #PHYS3305 class, which is interactive (students break into groups using breakout rooms and work together to solve problems). Gathered work/answers using Canvas. #ZoomLife #FacultyLife https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1242570216929996805/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64024
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Had an AWESOME @SMUPhysics #PHYS1010 (Honors Physics) digital class last night. The 5 teams each gave 10 minute talks on the status of the "Physics of Video Games" grand challenge problem. 15 participants, lively discussions, ended nearly on time, almost zero technical problems! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1242454181010644992/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64017
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From Fermilab https://twitter.com/Fermilab on Twitter: Want to jump into particle physics? This playlist tackles some of the most intriguing topics - from the size of our universe and the kinds of matter within it to tiny, mysterious particles and the experiments scientists build to study them. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5E3EC8B620AD02BC
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Dallas County residents ordered to stay home as new shelter-in-place rules are put in place https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/03/22/dallas-county-residents-ordered-to-stay-home-as-new-shelter-in-place-rules-are-put-in-place/
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From JasonWhitely https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely on Twitter: #BREAKING: In announcing a "shelter-in-place" order for Dallas County, @JudgeClayJ Jenkins shows two graphs that helped him make the decision. "It makes me sick we're at this point," he said. https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/1241858518291972103/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/63992
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Watching the BBC Horizon program "Fermat's Last Theorem," which I haven't watched since (EARLY) graduate school . I forgot how delightful this story of mathematics (albeit condensed and filtered) was. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1241860598834610181/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/63989
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From Phatthedd https://twitter.com/Phatthedd on Twitter: I just saw #AmericanMariachiDallas from @DallasTheater virtually. Definitely worth it. Please watch the virtual performance and consider making a donation to help DTC through this unprecedented period. #theatre #dallastheatercenter #dtc #dfwtheatre #dallastheatre https://twitter.com/DallasTheater/status/1241016665158139904
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Shared from RSS: "Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?" In Italy the entire population of a small town was tested for Covid 19. Of those infected, one in th... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csytnr ( Feed URL: https://reader.cooleysekula.net/public.php?op=rss
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"Exercise without distraction" One benefit of social distancing and self-isolation has been exercise. Because my work is conducted out of my home office, and because I am not interrupted by unscheduled things that erupt in my workplace, I am able to better focus and stick to my need for regular exercise. As a result, over the past 3 ⦠Continue reading "Exercise without distraction" https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2020/03/21/exercise-without-distraction/ ( Feed URL: http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/feed/ )
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From ATLASexperiment https://twitter.com/ATLASexperiment on Twitter: As the world adapts to the new global situation, researchers at @CERN's ATLAS Experiment continue their work from home! We check in with ATLAS' @bio_silvia, @sethzenz, @claranellist, @physicscakes (+ ) & @DiliaMP (+) to see how theyre faring as #PhysicistsAtHome. https://twitter.com/ATLASexperiment/status/1241321806587465728/video/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/63733
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In case this helps any of my colleagues, here are examples of how I have been communicating with my students through the COVID-19 policy changes. https://people.smu.edu/ssekula/2020/03/21/covid-19-changes-everything-for-spring-2020/
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it's 49F. Hard to tell for sure, but it looks like someone is sunbathing in a bikini. !minnesota
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One of our consultants actually wrote a migration tool (which happens to be open source), but the last commit on it was in something like 2011. You needed old versions of our Perl API and probably Perl. It was a mess. I don't know what ended up happening with that. I think I lost the case over Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Of course, Perl on Windows is just kinda a mess in general.
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just heard someone refer to a "full stack front end developer"
dafaq?
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@musicman No. SETI@Home is "paused", but people that ran it will have #BOINC installed (it is one of many projects that use BOINC), so someone wanting to participate in Rosetta@Home could just add that project in BOINC while they await the revival of SETI. (The B is Berkeley and I think the NC is Network Computing; beyond that, I don't know.)
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The last two years I have worked in version control full time, but have very little exposure to !git.
I am taking some advanced git training right now, and all I can think is 'What kind of control freaks need this'?
oh right, Linus.
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@musicman Mastodon instance hackers.town has a team for f@h that is probably about to break into the top 1,000 after just 2-3 weeks.
There’s also Rosetta@Home for those running BOINC (SETI@Home and similar efforts).
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