The uv package manager makes python code portable like never before. Instant, trivial reproducibility is now possible.

I made a template repo that generates a download-and-install terminal command. It takes you right from empty terminal to functioning Jupyter notebook 🧪

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Does anyone else draw these silly architecture figures of codebases as you learn them? A mishmash of boxes representing files/classes. Circles for event/while loops. Lines and arrows for data flow and events. All of it kinda messy.

Is there a name for this sort of thing? #gamedev #rustlang #SciArt

I still firmly believe LLMs aren’t conscious and there’s no clear path toward artificial consciousness. But perfect simulation of consciousness seems…possible

JPL seems mostly unscathed following the fires. But many employees undoubobly lost their homes in Altadena, less than a kilometer away.

Img credit A Jefferson

It's all micropipettes now, right? Show me an emogi for this bad boy

But if the toolset used for writing does not guide the scientist away from extraneous uses of the tech, then publications will use interactive figures like how word-art was used in PowerPoint in the early 2000s.

I worry that interactive figures in online-only publications can exist mainly to make the author feel sophisticated and good about themselves. 🧪

Have your @matplotlib.bsky.social plots ever looked a little fuzzy or low-res in @projectjupyter.bsky.social notebooks? Try configuring matplotlib for retina displays with this command 🧪

%config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'retina'

If anyone ever needs a matplotlib plot in dark mode, I made a function that auto-converts most elements during export 🌙🧪

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The video journalists -- I fear them

They will set up purple and blue lights in my lab. They will make me wear a lab coat. They will make me use hand gestures 😱🧪

These two user interfaces are for controlling a cryogenic binary tree of relays that acts as a 1->n switch inside a cryostat. Switching wires at 1 degree above absolute zero is tricky, because semiconductors don't work and other switching methods generate too much heat.

This might be the most dramatic improvement to laboratory software I've made🧪🧵

My eyes 😵🧪

During my thesis defense, I dropped this animation I made of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector I'd helped test during my PhD. There was awkward silence while it ran, which is why I support using limited amounts of epic background music during such talks

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language to interactive & animated scientific diagram

On one hand, their’s a certain romance in the unique presentations. Let each researcher explain herself with the wording and illustration she sees fit. Like Galileo and Paul Dirac did in their personal notes

Imagine 3 scientists use a certain type of interferometer for their optics experiments. They may vary in size and shape, but their operating principle is identical.

In their published papers, all three scientists illustrate these differently. And use slightly different names and acronyms. 🧵