(January 15, 2016 at 2:56 pm)Vic Wrote:

(January 15, 2016 at 2:55 pm)Red_Wind Wrote: Thinking along the lines of "if Unicode can cover all the comments in the shoutbox, what happens if i create a thread with it?"

For now, i'm toying with trying to only cover my username with Unicode characters.

I'm telling

Not like i am going to do it, at least i can easily fix it if it covers the wrong areas.

Just saw "The Cinderella man" for the first time.
Fucking awesome movie.

(January 15, 2016 at 2:55 pm)Red_Wind Wrote: Thinking along the lines of "if Unicode can cover all the comments in the shoutbox, what happens if i create a thread with it?"

For now, i'm toying with trying to only cover my username with Unicode characters.

The Rules Wrote:Unicode Restrictions
Posts should be written in English and be comprised mainly of characters from the Basic Latin Unicode block. For the non-technical, these are characters that you can type on a keyboard using single key presses, or using the shift modifier. For the technical, these are Unicode characters U+0020 to U+007E inclusive. Using other Unicode characters which resemble English alphabetic characters is not allowed. This is due to limitations in some mobile applications which do not render these characters correctly.

Not much, just had an extremely late dinner.

Well aren't you a silly!

Today, I presented my job to my eldest's 6th grade class.
It seems the kids liked it, in spite of a few struggling with sleep a bit towards the end, there...

What do you even do?

(January 15, 2016 at 7:54 pm)Jello Wrote: What do you even do?

Programming of algorithms to process data out of nuclear fusion related diagnostics...
I've done tomography of the plasma column mainly to determine where inside the vacuum vessel the plasma is and to send out  a control signal to push the plasma a bit further to the middle.
And I've been doing reflectometry of the edge of the plasma, for these past 2 years, to obtain neat electron-density profiles... of which the diagnostic generates some 100 thousand for each 25 second pulse... here's a sniff:



Plus, I get to play a bit with this sort of toy:

*Science boner

(January 15, 2016 at 8:16 pm)pocaracas Wrote:

(January 15, 2016 at 7:54 pm)Jello Wrote: What do you even do?

Programming of algorithms to process data out of nuclear fusion related diagnostics...
I've done tomography of the plasma column mainly to determine where inside the vacuum vessel the plasma is and to send out  a control signal to push the plasma a bit further to the middle.
And I've been doing reflectometry of the edge of the plasma, for these past 2 years, to obtain neat electron-density profiles... of which the diagnostic generates some 100 thousand for each 25 second pulse... here's a sniff:

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That's the temporal evolution of an H-mode plasma with two different types of ELMs (Edge Localized Modes), the first is triggered by a pellet of deuterium injected in the plasma; the other is a standard spontaneous ELM.
(you can tell it's H-mode because, in between ELMs, the profile is quite steep and then plateaus)

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Plus, I get to play a bit with this sort of toy:

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On the far left roughly at middle height, there's a yellowish speck. That's the antenna that emits and receives the microwaves that allow me to generate the plot above.

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Wow. You must be insanely smart to get a job like that >.>