Alex Willmer
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Former Twitter user. 🐘 @[email protected] https://t.co/42jaJ5rKGx 🦋 @alex.moreati.org.uk https://t.co/OCm3RVUxCY
Reading, UK
Joined June 2009
Farewell, I'm logging off here for good. Find me on Mastodon https://t.co/0uP9qJWref or Bluesky
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1.67K Posts, 172 Following, 164 Followers · Python and Ansible developer. Recovering Sherlock. Armchair supervillain. Pun usually intended. He/they.
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Our cryostat is here! Both halves of the device that will be used to cool our high-temperature superconducting magnets for SPARC arrived at the CFS magnet factory this week. Next step: installation.
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Last week we successfully ran hot liquid metal over a wall (under vacuum) and circulated it in a loop for 100 hours straight. This is a major engineering milestone and a significant step toward liquid metal walls in our future devices. #shiny
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For itertools.permutations() ... as random access Sequences (ala range()) try python_toolbox.combi https://t.co/ejAgqgBeWl >>> p = python_toolbox.combi.PermSpace('ABCD') >>> len(p), p[3], p.index(('B', 'C', 'D', 'A')) (24, <Perm: ('A', 'C', 'D', 'B')>, 9)
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A collection of Python tools for various tasks
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Yesterday I gave a lightning demo of Kendo, a Japanese martial art with bamboo swords. Please catch me if you'd like to know more - in person, here or on discord https://t.co/2ZkMEaGzQa
#PyConUK #kendo
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I'm enjoying The Immortals by @aleksk. A 10 part audio series about anti-aging research, attempts to rush it from lab to humans, and the technology hype cycle available as podcast https://t.co/QpUuauiYwV or on BBC sounds
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Aleks Krotoski tracks the imminent cure for aging and the push by Silicon Valley to own it
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44 million atoms simulated by the supercomputer Perlmutter (70.9 PetaFLOPS) to represent a 150 nanometer long protein in the shell of a HIV virus. Our challenge? Getting the video through Youtube's compression. https://t.co/CNAqf1UqyL
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Day 8: Alex has started referring to himself in the third person, and narrating with a Geordie accent
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This hot/cold compress is *so* nice on the forehead, to sooth a high temperature & headache
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Booked my accomodation for PyConUK in Cardiff at the end of the month
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Reading Kendo Club are running a beginners course from Sat 14 Oct https://t.co/Bsh4DjTdgR, I joined 18 months ago happy to answer any questions #rdguk #kendo
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The receiver on Earth for the laser from the spacecraft will use superconducting nanowires, able to detect a single photon from Psyche's laser.
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