Dr. Sotiris Kakanos

I have some time off between jobs so I'm daily-using this laptop again. Still enjoying Ubuntu. I re-applied the thermal paste on its GPU/CPU and, although I don't have the data to show it, it seems to be running cooler. The 10 year old laptop lives on!

I just installed Ubuntu on this same laptop and it is genuinely comparable to my work one, for day-to-day use (MBP with M2 chip) If you have an old legacy mac that no longer gets sw updates - consider switching to linux! #1-overview" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ubuntu.com/tutorials/inst…

@andrewmccalip @LabergeDev I thought thermoelectric Peltier modules were the answer to this but for reasons unknown to me they’re not used beyond toy projects (could be wrong)

@LabergeDev Solar seems to be the closest to a solid state conversion to electricity. Not bad, but dang its a lot of surface area and very peaky.

I was terribly disappointed to learn at an early age that nuclear power plants just boiled water, nothing more magical. I think this is a common story.

ReachingBot Device Manager v2.4.1 released. - Pellet detection zone is now configurable - TTL signals can now be coupled to external devices for event synchronisation (e.g. for 2-photon imaging or transcranial stimulation)

@matwku Congrats, Mat! Awesome news! 😄

🚨Exciting news alert! ...A long thread. I've long waited to share the news, but finally it comes. >>>I AM STARTING A LAB😊 With new year I begun a journey as a Team Leader in a Polish Flagship research institute in Wrocław (Breslau). #newPI #NewBeginnings #AcademicTwitter

@DHuzard This looks great, congrats!

@collins_belton @mitsuhiko IMO it makes code readable. It’s nice coming back to code after some time knowing what a method expects to receive and what it’ll return, for example… it also makes parsing Python with things like the Inspect module a lot easier too

@mitsuhiko I misunderstood you then, I thought this was for a personal project. So you’ve got to do this for someone else’s benefit and they are requiring type annotation but only in Python? Thanks for patience too; I have been trying to learn more about RL use cases of Python typing

Python typing makes my blood boil. How the hell does anyone enjoy that experience?

@FromPhDtoLife n.b. I did also quite like being in academia!

@MakerSot 👏🏻

I really wish PhD students and academics weren't convinced that working outside academia is lesser than. This faith is still engrained in academic culture, in most disciplines, it seems. What say you? (I want to be wrong in my assessment.)

@PeterOnion I can’t say for certain as I’ve not used this material but I think it will look frosted immediately off the print bed, and it’s because Stanton used an acetone vapour that it became so transparent in the video

@MakerSot That's enough to tell me we can carry on with planning the project as it should be possible. Can the surface be treated to make it "frosted" so that the internals are not visible but the whole thing will "glow" with the colour of the LED mounted inside ?

Is it possible to 3D print small items thin enough so that they can be illuminated from inside with a LED ? Alternatively are there any semi-translucent filament materials ? Asking for a friend :-)

@VegetableSamosa Thank you, brother LeeRev!

@MakerSot Good for you man! Glad you're happy!

A boring update, but: after having the battery replaced in my late 2015 macbook pro, it feels as good as new, that it can go for another 8 years, and that I've basically got a new laptop for a fraction of the cost 🤩

@Yaz_Buhidma @DutyLab @WolfsonCARD @KingsIoPPN @NaturePortfolio Congrats Yaz!

Super happy to have published the work from my PhD. We combined preclinical research and post-mortem human tissue analysis to find two mechanisms driving pain in PD. Have a read: nature.com/articles/s4153… @dutylab @WolfsonCARD @KingsIoPPN @NaturePortfolio 🔬🧠

I think it will be my go-to when I need to make an embedded system that doesn't require computer vision

I've just started messing around with a Pico and I really like it as a RPi 4 alternative. The constraints (less storage/processing power) means getting creative with implementation but the availability and low cost makes it worth it IMO!

A rendering of the latest @autoscientific ReachingBot® 😍

@ChantayyJayy It survives it with no problem… I just find that it’s terrible at actually tracking distance swam if it’s open water and not lengths in a pool

@Goodwin_G1 @ThisIsSaraJager @sciloveson Congrats George, this looks excellent!

@amy_saskia have DMd you!

@MakerSot He’s very cute and looks to have made himself at home! Did you move house in the end?!

We adopted a cat called Ray! 🐈