Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2022-09-26 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by jmvidal. In attendance were Student keyholders: bds, cjq, gshay, jmvidal, mitimmy, mrittenb Associate keyholders: agrebe, amigdal, jeffery, markchil Members: califyn, leognon, psvenk, rgabriel, toomas, vish2004, xy, yaseen Guests: sanupam Administrivia: bds: i propose an allocation of $40 to buy flash drives. [passes with white ballot] Project Reports: mrittenb: courseroad had our first meeting this semester. we assigned issues. i updated all our packages which took longer that it should have. jmvidal: hwops has a work party this wednesday at 5 again to continue documenting our servers and their specs. cjq: cluedumps is looking for more people to give cluedumps. markchil: considering running a cluedump on matplotlib and/or matlab. lots of material but can't guarantee a timeline, tell me preferences. Other: gshay: we just hit an asteroid? jmvidal: yeah we're hitting the, the thing. toomas: by we i think it's the prob that nasa sent and not the earth itself. mrittenb: did it move how we wanted it to? gshay: we won't know until we do some observing. all that happened was we lost signal because presumably something exploded. agrebe: why was this necessary to test empirically? aren't these dynamics well-understood? gshay: it's nice to do it in not a life-and-death scenario toomas: also chaotic systems jeffery: and testing the system, not necessarily learn science cjq: there's a compiler compiler called langcc that claims to be faster than standard lexers and parsers by around 5x: cjq: sipb has an exhibit in the new mit museum! you should come and watch billy and shayna talk about the minecraft institute of technology and sipb. Other Other: mrittenb: happy jewish new year mitimmy: users are reporting bit rot with old google photos bds: google camera already DEMOLISHES the quality of any video you take. i took a video of the surrounding area and it looks like the charles is made out of blue koolaid. mitimmy: can't you turn the machine learning off bds: idk it's hidden somewhere in the settings menu i couldn't find if it is cjq: have you considered that the other portion of the sipb meeting is like a bad version of hacker news? toomas: i get all my news from sipb meetings mrittenb: i'd say it's a good version of hacker news psvenk: it's better, less tendency for flame wars jmvidal: the career fair is sooner than you think vish2004: does spring also have a career fair? toomas: there's a european one? vish2004: but then you have to go to europe… cjq: there's smaller ones in the spring i think The meeting was adjourned at 19:42. Minutes taken and submitted by cjq.