Good morning, real life!

Still can't believe the amazing week I had at #SciPy2023

This is the conference that started it all for me and I'm so grateful to be back. Ready and energized for what's next!

Finally home from #SciPy2023 with a full heart (I love this community) and lots of ideas and plans to execute with the particle physics and global scientific community over the next year. Let’s go! See all you wonderful people on GitHub and at #SciPy2024! @scipy2023 @SciPyConf

I’m leaving the BBQ, sorry, I mean I am leaving Austin, TX. Thanks #SciPy2023 for an excellent and informative conference.

The @joss editorial team was well represented at #SciPy2023! 🙌

Links from Rumman Chowdhury's talk at #SciPy2023

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/12/1064751/the-viral-ai-avatar-app-lensa-undressed-me-without-my-consent/

https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/14/stop-feeding-the-hype-and-start-resisting/

#FederatedMemory

At the Quarto talk.

As a user of Quarto for my personal blog for the past 7 months, I’ll just say: I have friends again 🤷‍♂️ #SciPy2023 @scipy2023

@flekschas gave a very impressive talk and demo at #SciPy2023 of his Jupyter-scatter package (https://github.com/flekschas/jupyter-scatter) for making interactive scatter plots of datasets with up to 10^7 points, including producing multiple linked plots with the ability to select points in one plot and see the selected points on all plots, automatically opacity based on point density, and color-blind safe color assignment. Great work!

Got another 5 miles in this morning ahead of #SciPy2023, Day 2. Started again at 5:30, even though there was an informal 10k at 6:30… but it was just too hot to wait that long 🥵

If you get this morning forecast, you might be at the #SciPy2023 conference in Austin, TX.

The conference and getting to meet an old college friend this afternoon makes the melting worth it.

First day of #SciPy2023 was a "both, and" kind of day.

On one hand: an incredible keynote, catching up with lovely folks I haven't seen in person in 4? 5? years, and wonderful talks.

On the other hand: A POSITIVE COVID-19 CASE, ALREADY. An at-best observed masking rate of 30%. All despite reminders on the website, on Slack, and in the conference opener.

It's just... endless. Endless signals of apathy, leading to endless and needless suffering. Endless fucking screaming.

SO excited to hear @amcasari talk about challenges in measuring open source—the dragons of legal, ethical, and policy considerations. @scipy2023 #SciPy2023

THANK YOU @SciPyConf for underscoring the mask requirement prominently in the Slack announcements! Immunocompromised / long COVID haulers / people who don't want to get sick greatly appreciate it! #SciPy2023

Loving Mike Droettboom‘s thesis from #scipy2023 that package managers have made building libraries easier by allowing separation of concerns, but shifted the difficulty from library maintenance to interface and ecosystem maintenance.

It’s official the SciPy Conference is leaving Austin for #scipy2024. To where is TBD! #SciPy2023

And there it is, folks. Please and thank you.

Signed, those of us who are immunocompromised // already suffering from long COVID // generally don’t want to get COVID, first time or otherwise!

#SciPy2023

Had some great views on my run this morning. Austin is an awfully pretty city. #SciPy2023

First day of tutorials at #SciPy2023… and I have to admit I’m disappointed by the extremely low fraction of people wearing masks. I was in the Deep Learning tutorial—the only one I know of that was completely full—and I’d say a *maximum* of 20% were masking. Probably more like 10-15%.

Given how prominent the request to mask is on the SciPy website, and how considerate this community has been in the past, I’m surprised and disappointed.

Still in transit to #scipy2023 but already came across a thread 🪡 with mastodon handles ❤️ Looking forward to growing the scipy community here! 🐘

Whew, ok, we seem to be back up! Just in time for #SciPy2023 😊

I took our instance down 48 hours ago to run some updates—both hardware and software.

On the software end: finally upgraded our instance to the latest (4.1.3, as of this writing). It ended up being easy! Thanks k3s 🤪

On the hardware end: a LOT. 1st, I added a 6th Pi to the cluster. 2nd, I installed power-over-ethernet HATs to each Pi. 3rd, I upgraded to a PoE 8-port switch. 4th, I rewired the Pi fans to use USB power.

If you’re going to be at #SciPy2023 or #PyHEPdev2023 and would like a pyhf sticker come find me to chat!